Hilary Hough

Hilary Hough is a financial consultant with a wide range of corporate finance and general management experience.

He worked with Bank of Ireland where he held a number of senior positions in Corporate Banking, Credit Management and Financial Analysis, SME Strategy and Marketing. He was at different times Head of Group Public Affairs, Head of the Property Division, Managing Director of Bank of Ireland Finance and Bank of Ireland Commercial Finance.

Since leaving Bank of Ireland he has provided financial consultancy and training to senior executives in a range of large companies and public sector organisations throughout Europe and the US including Johnson &Johnson, Sony Ericsson, Kone Lift Corp, LM Ericsson, Hilton Hotels International, Carlsberg, Dulux, Eurocontrol Agency, Akzo Nobel, Japan Tobacco, An Post, RTE, Dublin Airport Authority, Dept of Communications, Edward Dillon & Co, Vodafone.

He is non executive director of a number of Irish companies in the IT and property sectors including IT Alliance Ltd which is Ireland's largest provider of outsourced IT services.

He is a Certified Accountant (FCCA), a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland and of the Marketing Institute and one of the few Irish graduates of the Smaller Business Management Programme at the Harvard Business School. He was President of ACCA Ireland and was on the ACCA worldwide council for 6 years. He also spent a number of years on the council of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland. He was on the editorial boards of the Irish Banking Review and of Decision magazine. He also acted, for a number of years, as a government appointed non-veterinarian on the Irish Veterinary Council.

He has undertaken a number of consultancy projects for the World Bank and other international organisations in Poland, Ukraine and Iran.

He is and has written and lectured extensively on small business and other management issues in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the Far East. He currently lectures on accounting and finance on the MBA programme at Trinity College and on the International MSc programme run by Enterprise Ireland. He is a lead finance member of the faculty at Management Centre Europe.

He has written a manual on Financial Management which is used extensively throughout the world by those studying for the Certified Diploma in Financial Management. He has also written a book called "Accounting and Finance for the Lending Banker" which has become a leading text on the subject for lending bankers both in Ireland and abroad.