He might have offices on Cork’s fabled Blackrock Road, but Kevin Canning doesn’t quite cut a dash like Reggie, his mythical neighbour up the road in a €5.2 million mansion. “I am not a flashy guy – our whole company is not in any way flashy,” says the CEO of Quintas Capital. In his previous life, as a tax adviser to high net-worth individuals, Canning was useful to the likes of Reggie (“the richest man in Ireland, but not for tax purposes”) and other captains of Cork industry. But that was then – and Canning has been forging his own…

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