Personal Profiles

Donal O’Sullivan – Partner, Corporate Tax Services - Dublin

1. What are your main responsibilities?
Tax services to the asset management, investment funds, securitisation, banking and insurance industries.

2. What is the most interesting thing about your job?
Different problems - different solutions every day.

3. What most prepared you for your current role?
The training and experience received through my years in Ernst and Young (joined as tax trainee in 1988).

4. What is the current most interesting thing happening in your field?
Pooling structures for pension funds and institutions - the new CCF structure and tax efficiencies for investment funds generally. We have been working on a number of interesting projects recently which have provided tax benefits to investment funds.

5. What was your best subject in school?
History.

6. What's your favourite saying/quotation?
One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.

7. How long do you spend commuting each day?
13 minute walk each way.

8. What is your favourite form of relaxation?
Racquetball.

9. What is the best book you have ever read?
So many good ones but To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best.

10. What's your favourite film?
Godfather Part 2

11. What's your favourite sporting moment?
Any Kerry All Ireland win - not this year however.

12. What is your pet hate?
People not being punctual.

13. What's your ideal holiday?
Two weeks away - Galway Clare and Kerry!

14. If you could go back in time, what year would you go back to and why?
August 1982 - to warn the Kerry "5 in a row" football team about Seamus Darby!

15. If you could meet anyone in the world from any era who would it be? And why?
Tom Crean - to listen to his amazing expeditions and experiences.

16. What has been your proudest moment?
My parents reaction when I made Partner.

17. If you were not doing what you are doing now, what other job would you be in?
Teaching.