Personal Profiles

Lisa Doyle
Manager Private Wealth Services

What are your main responsibilities?
I advise high net worth individuals in relation to all areas of taxation from capital gains tax to succession planning. I also provide stamp duty advice to other departments.

What is the most interesting thing about your job?
I find that no two clients present the same challenges. Each client has separate and distinct requirements and expectations.

What most prepared you for your current role?
My legal training.

What is the current most interesting thing happening in your field?
The economic boom of recent years has induced people to look at more interesting ways of investing their money and provide for their future. This of course makes the job more interesting.

What was your best subject in school?
English.

What's your favourite saying/quotation?
Everything happens for a reason.

How long go you spend commuting each day?
3.5 hours.

Favourite form of relaxation?
Reading.

What is the best book you have ever read?
Catch 22.

What's your favourite film?
O Brother where Art Thou.

What's your favourite sporting moment?
Patrick Vieira lifting the league trophy 2003/2004 season.

What is your pet hate?
People who take up two parking spaces when parking.

What's your ideal holiday?
Any holiday that doesn’t involve lying on a beach all day long!

If you could go back in time, what year would you go back to and why?
1993 – My first year in college.

If you could meet anyone in the world from any era who would it be? And why?
Grace Kelly – She appeared to have everything and I would like to know if she was happy.

What has been your proudest moment?
It hasn’t happened yet…

If you were not a Supervisor in Tax Services, Pensions and Capital Tax what other job would you be in?
Auctioneering…….no doubt I would have retired by now.

What would you like your legacy to be?
A happy family and a small bank balance.