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Chief Executive Officer

First Derivatives Plc is a financial services company which located in Newry, Co. Down.

An Experienced Finance and Technology leader, Seamus Keating has experience in both the public and private sectors. He has lived and worked in Ireland, the UK, Italy and the Netherlands. A management accountant (FCMA), he was one of the youngest CFO's in the FTSE and later made the transition to COO and regional CEO at Logica plc. His twenty-four years in the Technology Sector has been a period of unprecedented globalisation, demanding constant innovation and change to remain competitive. Keating played a key role in establishing Logica as a major European Technology Services business through a combination of acquisitions, disposals and organic growth. Since leaving Logica in 2012, he has been using his experience on a varied portfolio of interests in the public and private equity markets.Born and educated in Ireland where he worked in the public sector, he moved to London in 1989 to complete his accounting studies and to join the Olivetti Group where he became CFO of Olivetti's UK operations in 1995. Two years later, he moved to Italy to take the role of CFO of Olivetti Solutions, a $2.4bn global business and played a major role in the restructuring and eventual disposal of that business unit to Wang in the United States. He joined Logica in 1999 and as the IT world was expanding at breakneck speed with the combination of Y2K and the ".com" bubble. As CFO from 2002 to 2010, he played a lead role in the development of Logica into a major £4bn European technology business. In 2010, he made the transition to Group COO and he moved to the Netherlands to take the additional responsibility of restructuring the Benelux region prior to the sale of Logica plc to CGI of Canada. Specialties: Debt and Equity Financing; Strategic and financial planning; Investor Communications; Delivery of restructuring and integration cost synergies; Contract and M&A Negotiation and due diligence;