Our People

Eamon Porter
Grad Dip, ACII, QFA, FLIA

Eamon Porter is the Principal of Aspire Wealth Management, and is one of Ireland's leading financial planners with over 33 years experience.
This includes a career involving two leading insurance companies and a stockbroker, before setting up his own business as an independent financial planner.

Eamon advises on a wide range of financial issues including investments, retirement programs, raising finance, efficient tax planning and protection arrangements. He acts as an Expert Witness in legal actions being brought in cases of negligent and reckless financial advice.

He holds a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning (First Class Honours) from University College Dublin and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ which, internationally, represents the highest level of professional practice in financial planning.

He is also a Qualified Financial Advisor (QFA) , a Fellow of the Life Insurance Association (FLIA) and an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII)

He has a long involvement in Irish financial matters having been one of the inaugural judges for the Moneymate Investment Awards before representing the Irish Brokers Association for several years as a board member with the life assurance technology company, Assurelink.

In 1994 he was an examiner for the Life Insurance Association, before becoming the editor of it's technical journal "The Professional" from 1995 to 1997.
From 2000 to 2006 he was appointed to the board of directors of the LIA, becoming its President in 2004.
From 2008 to 2010 he served on the Council of the IBA as well as its Public Relations and Management Committees.
In 2009/10 he chaired the IBA's Financial Services Committee.

In Ireland Eamon represents DNA Behavior™,  one of the world's leading exponents of behavioural finance tools,  and Family Office Network™, the leading provider of document management and collaboration tools for financial advisers.

Ciara Ni Chonaill
BSc (Hons), LIB QFA

Ciara Ní Chonaill has worked with Aspire Wealth Management since its inception in 2005 and is our Client Services Manager.  She is responsible for overseeing all client interaction outside of individual consultations, including portfolio reporting, underwriting of risks, processing lending applications and management of our computer facilities.

Ciara's first experience of working in the financial services sector was in banking in the Isle of Man in the late 1980's, initially for Allied Irish Bank before moving to TSB England & Wales.

Returning to Ireland in the 1990's, her IT-based studies took her in another direction and she worked for several years at the Centre for Software Engineering at DCU. She then returned to banking, this time with Ulster Bank where she worked for almost 2 years before joining Aspire Wealth Management.

Ciara holds a First Class Honours BSc Degree from the Open University and a Diploma in E-commerce Law from the Law Society of Ireland.   She is also a Qualified Financial Adviser (QFA) and a Licentiate of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland. She is authorised to provide full financial advice to our clients.