Michelle Budden (BBS, ICAI, AITI). Managing Director.

Michelle Budden is a qualified chartered accountant and tax consultant. Michelle trained in the corporate tax division of Deloitte & Touche prior to joining Arthur Anderson in Dublin in 2000 (later merged with KPMG). There she practiced as a property tax consultant and advised high net worth clients on their taxation affairs and commercial property transactions. A keen interest in education led to the founding of the Business Management Institute with Thomas Horgan in 2004.

Thomas Horgan (BSc, NSch.) Marketing Director.

Thomas Horgan graduated from University College Cork with a Bachelor of Science. He joined Davy Stockbrokers where he worked in a variety of roles including the fund sales division, as manager of the employee share scheme division, and as an advisory portfolio manager. Thomas won a scholarship from the Nuffield Trust in 2001 and wrote a thesis on Risk Management in the Commodity Markets after visiting the major commodity exchanges in the World. He joined Appleton Capital Management, a hedge fund company based in the IFSC, as Marketing Manager in 2003 and marketed their financial products to overseas markets. In 2005 he joined BMI as Marketing Director. Thomas is currently chairperson of the Irish Nuffield Scholarship Trust in Ireland.

Michael Gleeson (BSc, Dip, M.A.) Academic Director.

Michael graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. He holds an advanced diploma in Marketing and Administration from the Dublin Institute of Technology and completed his Masters in 2004. Between 2000 and 2003 he worked in the financial services sector in the IFSC before becoming a full-time lecturer of Business Management. Later appointed Academic Director of BMI he designs the academic courses in consultation with employers, accreditation and government bodies.