Trinity SMF Podcast

🎙 Trinity SMF Podcast | Robert Mann | 18 Years in the CIA, Goldman Sachs, and Rebuilding European Resiliency at Marshall Bridge VenturesMatthew Barnes sits down with Robert Mann - US Army veteran, former CIA officer, and Co-Founder of Marshall Bridge Ventures.Robert spent 18 years in the CIA, serving across South Asia, North Africa and Europe, after joining the Counterterrorism Center in 2006. He left the agency for Goldman Sachs, where he worked on M&A transaction risk, and has since co-founded Marshall Bridge Ventures with Mengwen Li to invest in dual-use technology and founders building for European resilience.In this conversation, Robert explains when he thinks the post-Cold War peace really ended, whether Europe is rearming fast enough, and why Marshall Bridge Ventures is his answer to that.Robert also discusses the unlikely parallels between his background and current work, why supply chain diligence has become a national security question, and his case for public service.For podcast enquiries please contact [email protected]🔔 Subscribe for new conversations with leaders in business, finance, and beyond.🎧 Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.🔗 Trinity SMF Podcast YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@trinitystudentmanagedfund7865🔗 Trinity SMF Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/company/trinity-smf🔗 Trinity SMF Website | https://trinitysmf.com/trinity-smf-podcast🔗 Host's Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcmbarnesTrinity Student Managed Fund is Europe's oldest and largest student-run investment fund, with more than €800,000 AUM.#TrinitySMF #venturecapital #CIA #intelligence #defencetech #europeansecurity #ukraine #goldmansachs #podcast #trinitycollegedublin

🎙 Trinity SMF Podcast | Conor Hillery | Co-CEO of J.P. Morgan EMEAMatthew Barnes sits down with Conor Hillery - Co-Chief Executive of J.P. Morgan for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Head of Investment Banking for the region.Conor grew up in Dublin, studied commerce at UCD and trained as a chartered accountant at KPMG, before an advert in the Irish Times took him to London six weeks later. He joined Cazenove in 2002, came into J.P. Morgan when the firm was acquired, and has spent the years since building its investment banking franchise across Europe.In this conversation, he explains why Europe has fallen behind on competitiveness, where the €1.2 trillion a year of investment the continent needs is going to come from, and why US buyers are circling UK companies trading at a 40% discount.Conor also discusses co-leadership, what he looks for in the people he hires, and why he worries that AI may stop the next generation from ever learning the fundamentals.For podcast enquiries please contact [email protected]🔔 Subscribe for new conversations with leaders in business, finance, and beyond.🎧 Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.🔗 Trinity SMF Podcast Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/2KCU3PAzG5vzeg6nKshDvk🔗 Trinity SMF Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/company/trinity-smf🔗 Trinity SMF Website | https://trinitysmf.com/trinity-smf-podcast🔗 Host's Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcmbarnesTrinity Student Managed Fund is Europe's oldest and largest student-run investment fund, with more than €800,000 AUM.#TrinitySMF #conorhillery #jpmorgan #investmentbanking #finance #europeanmarkets #dealmaking #leadership #podcast #trinitycollegedublin

🎙 Trinity SMF Podcast | Jim Chanos | Inside the Golden Age of FraudMatthew Barnes sits down with Jim Chanos - founder of Kynikos Associates, the short seller who called Enron, and lecturer on the history of financial fraud at Yale.Jim's career began in 1980, when Wall Street was so far out of favour that he earned more in three months at a steel mill than in his first full year in finance. The first major company he analysed, Baldwin-United, became the largest bankruptcy in US history. Two decades later he read Enron's footnotes and recognised the same accounting. In between he was fired by Deutsche Bank over a front-page story about short sellers, and turned that firing into Kynikos Associates.In this conversation, he reflects on how bubbles repeat across cycles, what Baldwin-United and Enron had in common, why he calls this the golden age of fraud, and what the AI capital expenditure boom has in common with the telecom build-out.For podcast enquiries please contact [email protected]🔔 Subscribe for new conversations with leaders in business, finance, and beyond.🎧 Also available on Youtube and Apple Podcasts.🔗 Trinity SMF Podcast Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/@trinitystudentmanagedfund7865🔗 Trinity SMF Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/company/trinity-smf/🔗 Trinity SMF Website | https://trinitysmf.com/🔗 Host's Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcmbarnes/Trinity Student Managed Fund is Europe's oldest and largest student-run investment fund, with more than €800,000 AUM.#jimchanos #enron #shortselling #fraud #AIbubble #TrinitySMF #trinitycollegedublin #investing #finance #podcast

🎙 Trinity SMF Podcast | Julian Coulter | Navigating Emerging MarketsMatthew Barnes sits down with Julian Coulter - Global Managing Director at Google, leading the Food, Beverages, and Restaurants vertical, with over two decades operating across emerging markets from Poland and Russia to South Africa, Peru, and Mexico.Julian's career took him from a graduate sales role at Bass Brewers in the English Midlands to regional director for Britvic International by age 26, through leadership roles at SAB Miller across South Africa and Latin America, and into his current role at Google. Along the way he built brand strategy under a former Coca-Cola global CMO, launched and lost a premium soft drink in Poland, and helped shape how one of the world's largest companies thinks about marketing in the developing world.In this conversation, he reflects on why he chose developing markets over the well-trodden banking and consulting path, what a failed product launch in 1990s Poland taught him about strategy, how head office and the operators on the ground negotiate tension, and where AI fits into closing - or widening - the gap between developed and emerging economies.For podcast enquiries please contact [email protected]🔔 Subscribe for new conversations with leaders in business, finance, and beyond.🎧 Also available on Youtube and Apple Podcasts.

Matthew Barnes sits down with Bethany McLean - contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room, the definitive account of Enron's collapse.In 2001, Bethany was the first journalist to publicly question Enron's valuation, publishing "Is Enron Overpriced?" in Fortune months before the company's implosion became one of the most notorious corporate bankruptcies in American history. She went on to cover the 2008 financial crisis, co-authoring the book "All the Devils Are Here" with Joe Nocera. In this conversation, Bethany reflects on the Enron story, the blurry line between visionary and fraudster, and the 2008 financial crisis. For podcast enquiries please contact [email protected]🔔 Subscribe for new conversations with leaders in business, finance, and beyond.🎧 Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.🔗 Trinity SMF Podcast Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/2KCU3PAzG5vzeg6nKshDvk?si=3c1fd802e0064a2a🔗 Trinity SMF Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/company/trinity-smf/🔗 Trinity SMF Website | https://trinitysmf.com/🔗 Host's Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcmbarnes/Trinity Student Managed Fund is Europe's oldest and largest student-run investment fund, with more than €800,000 AUM.#bethanymclean #2008 #financialcrisis #enron #TrinitySMF