About Us
Eugene Mc Darby, Chairman
Eugene is Chief Executive Officer of Moneyvillage Ireland Ltd. Eugene was Sales and Commercial Director of Irish Mortgage Corporation up until recently. He has previously worked in Canada Life and Zurich Life in senior management roles. Eugene was Chairman for the Dublin committee of the LIA in 2006.
He holds a Masters in Business Administration (Strathclyde Graduate Business University), qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute in 1991 and is a Qualified Financial Advisor (QFA) 1992. He is also a member of the UK-based Personal Finance Society by examination. DIP PFS.
In his personal life, Eugene is a qualified FAI soccer coach. He coaches, and is on the management committee of HomeFarm football club.
Claire Brennan, Vice Chairwoman
Claire Brennan is Chief Executive Officer of Mitchell Farrar (Irl) Ltd a subsidiary of the Mitchell Farrar Group (UK). She has set up a number of companies in Ireland on behalf of the Mitchell Farrar Group including MFG Debt Advice Ltd t/a Debt Advisory Line. Prior to this Claire was the Managing Director of Freedom Finance Ireland a multi-national brokerage firm who acquired her business Perfect Mortgages (SE) Ltd in 2007. Claire was a co-founder and owner of a national mortgage brokerage Perfect Mortgages which was set up at the end of 2005.
Claire was Chairman of the South-East Committee of the LIA (Life Insurance Association) in 2006 and continues to serve on the committee. She also served on the legislative sub-committee of PIBA (Professional Insurance Brokers Association) in 2009. Claire is a Qualified Financial Adviser (QFA) and Licentiate Banker with the Institute of Bankers holding diplomas in both Wealth Management and Pensions and Retirement Planning. She was awarded the Institute of Bankers President Award for the Diploma in Financial Services in 2002.
Michael Land, Advisor
Michael Land’s early career was in television retail. He founded Northern Television and was a director of Granada Retail Ltd. He then moved on to build up two food companies (which included popcorn in cinemas and frozen Yorkshire puddings for supermarkets amongst their products).
His most recent business venture was the founding of Debt Management Associates Ltd (DMA) in 1999. The business was sold to Card Protection Plan Ltd in March 2001 but he bought this back in 2005.
Whilst his area of expertise lay principally in the snack food and leisure industries, where he was the majority shareholder in these businesses, he spent some years earlier in developing finance and related businesses.
Having retired 3 times, Mr Land has always returned to the business world swiftly following each retirement.
He is Chairman of DEMSA, an organisation he founded when he set up DMA, together with Lord Harris of Haringey. He steered through DEMSA’s successful and lengthy application for OFT code approval.