Mark Mulcahy, PhD CFA is Professor in Corporate Finance in the Department of Accounting and Finance, Cork University Business School (CUBS), University College Cork (UCC). Prof. Mulcahy holds first class honours B.Comm. and M.Sc. Degrees and a Ph.D. from the National University of Ireland (Cork). He is currently Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance having previously been Academic Director of the M.Sc. Asset Management Degree, and Co-Director of the B.Sc. Finance Degree at UCC. He is/has been the external examiner to the Cambridge Judge Business School, Ulster Business School (University of Ulster), The School of Professional Finance (University College Dublin) and Liverpool John Moores University. His primary research interests are in corporate finance, valuation, corporate governance, earnings management, Islamic finance and private equity. He is published in international peer-reviewed journals including the British Accounting Review, British Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, Pacific Basin Journal of Finance, Corporate Governance: An International Review, as well as the Economics Letters, among others. Prof. Mulcahy also has significant industry experience. Prior to joining UCC he held positions at Prudential Volpe Technology Group and Wedbush Morgan Securities (fka Pacific Growth Equities) in San Francisco and Investec in Dublin. At Volpe and Pacific Growth he was an investment banker and senior equity research analyst with primary research coverage responsibility for the technology and software sectors. He was lead analyst in numerous initial public offerings, secondary offerings, venture capital and private equity transactions, raising in excess of $1.5 billion in capital for early stage and small/mid. cap. firms in these sectors. Prof. Mulcahy

Valuation, Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Islamic Finance, Venture Capital and Private Equity.

Valuation, Corporate Finance, Financial Statements Analysis, Business Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Private Equity.