{"id":515476,"date":"2026-06-24T03:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515476\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T03:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:55:14","slug":"pwc-adds-six-new-partners-to-the-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515476\/","title":{"rendered":"PwC adds six new Partners to the firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

PwC Ireland<\/a> has announced the admission of six new Partners to the firm.<\/p>\n

Aisling Curtis\u00a0becomes\u00a0Markets Partner for\u00a0Strategic Alliances\u00a0within PwC\u2019s Advisory practice. She\u00a0has\u00a0extensive experience in technology-enabled transformation, having worked for approximately 25 years\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0technology and\u00a0telecommunication\u00a0sectors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curtis holds a\u00a0Masters\u00a0in Business Economics from UCC, alongside completing various professional studies, including in AI and Sustainability leadership at Cambridge\u00a0University.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She holds various Board seats, is a dedicated member of the 30% Club<\/a> and was previously an advisor on the IMI Council. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Melissa Fenlon\u00a0becomes a Tax Partner in the firm\u2019s Domestic and International Outbound practice, with responsibility for tax services in the South-East region, including PwC\u2019s offices in Wexford, Kilkenny\u00a0and Waterford.<\/p>\n

With over 16\u00a0years of experience, Fenlon\u00a0advises\u00a0indigenous Irish businesses and multinationals on a wide range of tax matters.<\/p>\n

She specialises in supporting private businesses on strategic transactions, including sales and acquisitions, as well as estate and succession planning, group restructuring and rationalisation, and Revenue audit engagements. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Kevin Galligan\u00a0becomes a Tax Partner in the firm\u2019s Foreign Direct Investment practice.<\/p>\n

Galligan brings over 12\u00a0years of experience\u00a0advising multinational companies on the design and implementation of international and domestic tax structures.<\/p>\n

Galligan has extensive experience across Intellectual Property,\u00a0international expansion, financing and treasury matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Specifically,\u00a0Galligan advises clients on international structuring, business model transformation and mergers and acquisitions with a particular focus on companies\u00a0operating\u00a0in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Galligan also has significant international tax experience, having spent two years on secondment with PwC San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Ruth McNamee\u00a0becomes a Partner in\u00a0PwC\u2019s\u00a0Finance Transformation\u00a0Advisory\u00a0practice. McNamee specialises in large-scale, technology-enabled finance transformation.<\/p>\n

She brings deep\u00a0expertise\u00a0in Finance Operating Models, Enterprise Resource Planning implementation, Global Business Services, Finance Managed\u00a0Services\u00a0and the application of AI in finance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McNamee has led complex transformation programmes from strategy through to implementation, including in\u00a0Ireland, Europe, the Middle\u00a0East\u00a0and the United States. \u00a0<\/p>\n

David Ridgeway\u00a0becomes a Partner in PwC\u2019s Deals Advisory practice. \u00a0<\/p>\n

He has\u00a0nearly 20\u00a0years of experience\u00a0advising domestic and multinational clients on their acquisition and disposal activities, including due diligence, deal strategy and sale and purchase agreement negotiations.<\/p>\n

Ridgeway works with clients across a range of industries, including technology, healthcare and pharma, energy, consumer products and construction and materials. \u00a0<\/p>\n

David Strachan\u00a0becomes an Assurance Partner\u00a0and is based in Northern Ireland. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Strachan has over 16\u00a0years of experience\u00a0providing assurance services to a diverse range of domestic and multinational businesses, across both the\u00a0private business\u00a0(from family-owned through to private equity backed) and listed markets. \u00a0<\/p>\n

From his time working with PwC in the United Kingdom,\u00a0Australia\u00a0and Ireland, he has serviced a wide range of industries including hospitality, healthcare, food & drinks, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and shipping\u00a0and\u00a0logistics.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"PwC \"Enda McDonagh, PwC Ireland Managing Partner<\/p>\n

\u00a0Speaking at the announcement, Enda McDonagh, PwC Ireland Managing Partner, said:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Our new Partner appointments bring a wealth of industry expertise, skills, and perspectives. Their diverse experiences, combined with our leading technology capabilities, enable our clients to respond to a world of extraordinary complexity, where adaptability, innovation and reinvention are key\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PwC Ireland has announced the admission of six new Partners to the firm. Aisling Curtis\u00a0becomes\u00a0Markets Partner for\u00a0Strategic Alliances\u00a0within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-515476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}