Kieran qualified as chartered accountant with PWC and then joined the Smurfit Group in their leasing /banking division acting chief accountant with Smurfit Paribas Bank. He then moved to Woodchester where he held several finance roles including acting as CFO in their Portugal leasing operations. He returned to Dublin after 3 year and acted in senior leasing operations roles within Woodchester, which was now part of GE Capital. Thereafter Kieran spent 16 years with Cisco Capital as EMEA Operations Director and board member of their EMEA capital entity boards.