Background
Mellon grew up in Ballyroan, County Dublin. After finishing school, Mellon joined his father"s personalised investment brokerage.
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Career
His property business interests pre 2010 are under the control of the National Asset Management Agency. At age 24, he set up his own mortgage company, and subsequently grew his property and financial services interests through the Mellon Group. He carried out several highly successful development projects in the U.K and in Ireland and acquired numerous properties through his primary investment and syndicate vehicle Earthquake Property Partners.
In 2002, aged 35, Mellon began to spend most of his time working to help the poor.
While on a visit to South Africa, he was moved by the poverty of some township communities near Cape Town, and subsequently formed the building charity, the "Niall Mellon Township Trust", primarily with his own funds. In 2013 Mellon Educate was established with the goal of building and refurbishing schools in South Africa and Kenya.
As of March 2014 the charity had built about 22,000 houses for 120,000 South Africans. Personal Mellon pleaded guilty to charges of public drunkenness and breach of the peace after verbally abusing a Garda at a NAMA-controlled public he owns in July 2013.
He was convicted in January 2014 and forbidden from breaching the peace for a period of 12 months.
He was previously convicted for breach of the peace in 2005.
