{"id":578104,"date":"2026-08-01T01:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578104\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:32:21","slug":"fairstone-appoints-former-unio-chief-executive-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578104\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairstone appoints former Unio Chief Executive as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The financial planning and wealth management company Fairstone Ireland (Fairstone) has announced the appointment of Ian Brady as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Fairstone said the appointment, which is subject to regulatory approval, marks a significant milestone in the company&#8217;s growth strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brady has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the Irish wealth management sector.<\/p>\n<p>He was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Unio and previously spent 20 years at Davy as a Managing Director in the Wealth Management Division.<\/p>\n<p>Fairstone has over \u20ac4 billion in assets under management and employs around 240 people.<\/p>\n<p>It also owns the askpaul.ie financial advice business, and it has acquired 20 independently owned wealth management and financial planning firms in that time.<\/p>\n<p>Former Fairstone CEO and founder of askpaul.ie Paul Merriman will move to a new role as President of the company following Mr Brady&#8217;s appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the appointment, Mr Merriman said Mr Brady is one of Ireland&#8217;s most respected leaders in financial advice and wealth management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Fairstone enters its next phase of growth, Ian is ideally placed to lead the organization and continue delivering outstanding outcomes for our clients, colleagues and partner firms,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Brady said the company&#8217;s ambition to double by 2030 across the UK and Ireland attracted him to the role.:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The business has earned the right to its next chapter: my job is to sustain that momentum and put the strength and depth beneath it that the opportunity demands,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Fairstone now has \u00a325 Billion of Assets under management across in the UK and Ireland, serving over 100,000 clients across both markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The financial planning and wealth management company Fairstone Ireland (Fairstone) has announced the appointment of Ian Brady as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-578104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578104","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=578104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}