Ciaran McMullan

Ciaran McMullan is an international banker and management consultant who combines his passion for exploring exotic out-of-the-way places with a soulfulness that has brought him profound insights into the human condition. Ciaran’s perspective blends his own life experiences growing up in Northern Ireland amid violence and persecution with a wealth of business knowledge accumulated during a professional career spanning nearly twenty years and five continents.

Born in Northern Ireland in 1969, he witnessed persecution and suffering on a near daily basis. Developing an attitude of fearlessness, Ciaran went on to receive a first class honors degree from Stirling University in Scotland and post-graduate at Sheffield Hallam in England before beginning a rapid career climb.

He started as a banking market analyst in the city of London before rising to the position of Partner with one of the world’s pre-eminent professional services firms at the age of only 31 (Cap Gemin Ernst & Young). After living and working in financial capitals around the world including London, Sydney, New York, Paris and Hong Kong, Ciaran joined the National Australia Bank, ultimately becoming Chief Executive Officer for their North and South American commercial and retail banking business.

His love of the human spirit, ability to see life from a higher perspective, and resilient nature, never acquiescing to life’s pattern of constant change and challenge, has earned Ciaran a trust in himself, reflected back by his successes. His extensive travels have shown him the wide-birth of the world, from the slums of Mumbai to the cities of Marrakesh and Moscow. He has rafted the Zambezi River, snow-mobiled the glaciers of Iceland and scuba-dived the Greet Reef Barrier, eventually developing a deep reverence for high-altitude mountaineering, climbing the highest peaks on five continents.

Having scaled the heights of both the professional services and banking industries, his passionate personality has called him again to new ventures. He now lives in LA, manages his own portfolio of business investments (ranging from the agricultural sector in Australia to independent movie production in the US to the energy drinks business in China), and is highly sought after as an independent advisor to banks and private equity.

Ciaran brings an unconventional perspective to the business world and an understanding of the importance of soul and passion in achieving career success. His forthcoming book “The Discipline of Freedom” recounts the experiences of his unpredictable, adventurous and successful corporate career, offers thoughtful, provocative discourse about the needing-to-be-reformed mentality of many a company workplace, and makes an important contribution to improving the corporate life of individuals and the life of the organisations they work for.

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