The Enterprise & Finance CFO 100 Index 2023, in affiliation with Sia Companions, recognises the highest 100 Chief Monetary Officers working throughout a number of the most modern firms in Eire and the UK at the moment.
To launch this Index, Enterprise & Finance hosted a digital thought management panel dialogue on the important thing points dealing with the CFO at the moment.
The theme is: CFOs main the strategic price problem. Monetary leaders will talk about navigating an unpredictable enterprise panorama whereas overcoming challenges and discovering alternatives for progress.
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Gregor Alexander, Finance Director,
SSE Airtricity
Gregor Alexander joined SSE in 1990 and has been Finance Director on the Board since 2002. Previous to assuming the place of Finance Director, Alexander labored in senior finance roles and led specialist groups together with as Group Treasurer and Tax Supervisor.
He’s Chair of the Scottish and Southern Vitality Energy Distribution Board. He’s a Chartered Accountant and member of the Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) CFO Management Community.
David Arnold, Group Chief Monetary Officer,
Grafton Group plc
David Arnold joined the Board and the Group as Group Chief Monetary Officer on September ninth 2013. He was Group Finance Director of Enterprise plc, the UK Upkeep and Help Providers enterprise, from 2010 to 2013 and Finance Director of Redrow plc, the home builder, from 2003 to 2010.
He beforehand held senior monetary positions with Six Continents plc, the resorts group and Tarmac plc, the constructing supplies firm. Arnold is presently a Non-Government Director of Crest Nicholson Holdings plc, a UK housebuilding group.
Michael Behan, Chief Monetary Officer,
EirGrid Group
Michael Behan is the Chief Monetary Officer of EirGrid Group. He has held this place since January 2022.
Basil Blakeney, Finance Director,
AbbVie
Basil Blakney is a professional member of each the Monetary Conduct Authority (FCA) and Associates of the Irish Tax Institute (AITI). In 2017, Blakeney efficiently obtained his Practitioner Certificates in Information Safety. He’s a board member of Allergan Ltd.
Ken Bowles, Group Chief Monetary Officer,
Smurfit Kappa
Ken Bowles was appointed Group Chief Monetary Officer in April 2016 and was appointed a Director in December 2016. He joined the Group in 1994 and has occupied quite a lot of finance roles in numerous components of the Group.
In 2004 he was appointed because the Group’s first Head of Compliance, in 2007 he turned the Group’s Head of Tax and in 2010 he was appointed Group Monetary Controller.
Bowles is an affiliate member of the Institute of Chartered Administration Accountants and holds a first-class MBA from the UCD Graduate College of Enterprise.
Brendan Brennan, Chief Monetary Officer,
ICON plc
Brendan Brennan has served as Chief Monetary Officer since February 2012. Brennan has developed his profession with over twenty years’ expertise in numerous industries.
He joined ICON in 2006 and has served in quite a lot of senior finance roles within the firm together with the function of Senior Vice President of Company Finance. Previous to this, he developed his broad monetary expertise in Cement Roadstone Holdings, a significant Irish constructing supplies organisation.
Brennan spent quite a lot of years in public accounting with PwC previous to this. He’s a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Eire and holds a bachelor’s diploma in Accounting and Finance from Dublin Metropolis College.
Over his a few years of expertise within the CRO trade, Brennan has been concerned in lots of trade organisations and developments together with ACRO (Affiliation of Medical Analysis Organisations) the place he was the founding Chairman of the trade CFO spherical desk group, a gaggle shaped to assist CROs coping with the assorted trade challenges.
Brennan held the place of Chairman of the spherical desk from its basis in 2017 to December thirty first, 2019.
Pat Brennan, Chief Monetary Officer,
Novartis
Pat Brennan is Chief Monetary Officer at Novartis. Novartis Eire enterprise contains the World Service Centre, Gross sales and Advertising enterprise models in Dublin and Manufacturing and Providers in Cork. Brennan has labored with Novartis for the previous eighteen years in numerous finance and enterprise roles in Switzerland, Turkey, and Eire.
He gained expertise previous to Novartis with ArcelorMittal, in addition to within the motor trade, actual property in Chicago, and Sourcing and SCM roles within the meals manufacturing trade.
Brennan holds a Grasp of Science in World Enterprise Providers from Smurfit Enterprise College UCD together with an Accounting diploma from the Cork Institute of Expertise, and he’s a Chartered Administration Accountant (ACMA).
Donal Buggy, Chief Monetary Officer,
Ornua
Donal Buggy is Chief Monetary Officer of Ornua with duty for group monetary reporting, treasury administration, taxation, ICT and mergers and acquisitions. Previous to becoming a member of Ornua, Buggy was Group Chief Monetary Officer, Impartial Information & Media plc (INM).
He joined INM as Group Monetary Controller in 1996 and in 2002 he was appointed Group Chief Monetary Officer, becoming a member of the Group’s Board and Government Committee. Buggy additionally served as a Non-Government Director of APN Information & Media Ltd. and several other different group firms in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
He was beforehand audit supervisor with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Dublin. A chartered accountant by occupation, Buggy holds a Bachelor of Commerce diploma from College School Dublin.
Yvonne Burke, Chief Monetary Officer,
Glen Dimplex
Yvonne Burke is Chief Monetary Officer at Glen Dimplex Group, having joined Glen Dimplex in 2020 as Group Finance Director. She is accountable for delivering Glen Dimplex’s bold progress plans by natural progress and M&A.
Previous to Glen Dimplex, Burke spent fifteen years within the power sector, together with Chief Monetary Officer for Buyer Options in ESB and held quite a lot of senior roles within the UK and Eire inside SSE plc and Airtricity together with heading up the Residential Buyer Enterprise.
She certified as a chartered accountant with PwC and holds a bachelor’s diploma in Commerce and Accounting from the Nationwide College of Eire Galway (NUIG).
Brian Caniffe, Group Treasurer,
Aercap
Brian Caniffe was appointed Group Treasurer of Aercap in January 2018, beforehand serving as Head of Investor Relations since becoming a member of the corporate in October 2016.
He has over twenty years’ expertise in banking, lending and the capital markets. Previous to becoming a member of Aercap, Caniffe served as Managing Director and Head of World Markets Financing for Financial institution of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and Tokyo the place he led a division that was accountable for offering secured financing, buying and selling, clearing, reporting and numerous treasury capabilities within the Asia Pacific area.
As well as, he held roles throughout the financing divisions at Nomura Securities and Bankers Belief Worldwide.
Aaron Carroll, Finance Director,
BT
Aaron Carroll is Finance Director of BT Eire, a communications companies firm which employs greater than 650 staff and whose companies underpin the operations of mid-to-large organisations in each sector in Eire.
He’s a nineteen-year veteran of the BT enterprise and was appointed to the function in April 2016.
Lavanya Chandrashekar, Chief Monetary Officer,
Diageo
Lavanya Chandrashekar was appointed Chief Monetary Officer and a Director of Diageo plc in July 2021. She beforehand held the roles of Chief Monetary Officer, Diageo North America and World Head of Investor Relations inside Diageo.
Externally, Chandrashekar was Vice President Finance, World Value Management and Provide Chain at Mondelez Worldwide. She labored in numerous senior finance roles throughout North America, Japanese Europe, Center East and Africa at Mondelez Worldwide.
She additionally led Procter & Gamble groups throughout India, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America in numerous senior finance roles.
Padraig Clancy, Government Director Finance,
Gilead Sciences Inc.
Padraig Clancy started working at biotechnology firm Gilead Sciences Inc. in 2008 as a Director of Finance. He progressed to Senior Director Finance, then Government Director Finance earlier than being appointed Vice President Finance — Monetary Shared Providers in 2019.
He has international expertise within the pharmaceutical trade throughout the availability chain from bulk API manufacturing, pill manufacturing and packaging by to distribution and business operations.
Clancy is skilled in main strategic organisational and operational change in complicated enterprise environments and has demonstrated potential in working with cross useful administration on all areas of enterprise to ship outcomes together with business operations, finances and finance administration, price discount applications, operational excellence initiatives and technique formulation and planning.
He has confirmed organisational and motivational abilities together with a powerful document in employees growth to ship on aims and targets.
Nigel Clerkin, Chief Monetary Officer,
LetsGetChecked
Nigel Clerkin is Chief Monetary Officer at LetsGetChecked. He’s accountable for all points of the corporate’s monetary technique and aims. With over twenty years’ expertise, Clerkin is famend for main workforce throughout the healthcare trade. He beforehand held management roles at UDG Healthcare, ConvaTec and Elan Company.
Paul Cogan, Chief Monetary Officer,
Wisetek
Paul Cogan holds a level in Enterprise and Accounting from the College of Limerick. With over twenty years’ monetary expertise, Cogan brings a wealth of economic and managerial experience which he has gained in numerous roles throughout a wide range of sectors, working each nationally and internationally.
Beforehand, he was the Group CFO with the Irish Occasions. Previous to that, he held quite a lot of senior finance positions with Diageo, together with Business Finance Director for the Nordic Area, and World Promote to Money Director earlier than relocating house to Eire.
Neil Corcoran, Chief Monetary Officer,
Irish Life Funding Managers
Neil Corcoran joined ILIM as Chief Monetary Officer in 2020. Corcoran has over twenty 5 years’ expertise throughout monetary companies and has held a wide range of senior finance roles overlaying asset administration, banking and asset servicing.
He joined ILIM from Financial institution of Eire Group the place he was Director of Group Finance. Earlier roles inside Financial institution of Eire included CFO for the Irish Retail Division and Head of Finance for Financial institution of Eire Asset Administration.
Corcoran is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Eire and holds a BSc in Administration.
Paul Corrigan, Group Chief Monetary Officer,
Mainstream Renewable Energy
Paul Corrigan was appointed to the function of Group Chief Monetary Officer of Mainstream Renewable Energy in August 2020. He joined the agency in 2008 and has been part of its administration workforce and a director of quite a lot of Mainstream group firms since 2014.
Beforehand, he led Mainstream’s company finance division accountable for managing firm technique and the funding of the corporate’s international actions principally by elevating fairness and debt quantities on the holding firm and undertaking firm ranges working with giant worldwide monetary establishments and smaller retail or Excessive Internet Value traders in Eire and the UK.
Corrigan has executed a number of transactions with a price of c.€2.0bn, in undertaking finance, mezzanine finance, commerce finance, company debt, M&A and extra throughout a number of jurisdictions.
Previous to becoming a member of Mainstream, he labored in IBI Company Finance and KPMG, qualifying as an Affiliate of each the Irish Taxation Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He holds a Grasp’s diploma in Finance and Economics from the London College of Economics.
Stephen Craig, Chief Monetary Officer,
State Road
Stephen Craig has held the function of CFO for over seven years at State Road, a world supplier of economic companies to institutional traders. Previous to State Road, Craig labored at Merrill Lynch as Director, Hedge Fund Group the place he was overseeing all points of Monetary and Operational processes.
From 2004 to 20006, he labored as Director, Change Administration at Deutsche Financial institution. He studied Enterprise Economics and Accounting on the College of Southampton.
Conor Curley, Chief Monetary Officer,
AMCS
Conor Curley has a confirmed monitor document within the finance perform and dealing with excessive progress firms. Firms the place he has held worldwide monetary roles embrace Digicel in Papua New Guinea, China and different places.
He’s a Chartered Accountant with a Masters qualification in Accounting
John Dalton, Chief Monetary Officer,
Bord Gáis
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Dalton has been with Bord Gáis Vitality since 2015 and joined the administration workforce in Could 2017. Previous to working with Bord Gáis Vitality, he labored in Centrica throughout the Vitality Markets & Buying and selling perform. Dalton is a Chartered Accountant (ACA), has a Masters in Monetary Providers (MBS) and is a member of the Affiliation of Company Treasurers (AMCT).
Keith Davies, Chief Monetary Officer,
Microsoft Eire
Keith Davies is CFO of Microsoft Eire, sitting on each Microsoft Eire’s Senior Management Crew and Microsoft Western Europe’s Finance Management Crew.
In his function, he’s dedicated to driving robust, sustained and compliant enterprise progress within the Irish enterprise with buyer success on the core of all actions.
Davies joined Microsoft in 2018 and brings with him in depth management expertise from a wide range of senior positions held within the pharmaceutical, meals manufacturing, software program growth {and professional} companies industries – regionally, regionally and globally.
He holds a Bachelor of Enterprise and Regulation diploma from UCD and is a professional Chartered Accountant in addition to a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Eire.
Jonathan Davies, Finance Director,
Allergan Aesthetics
Jonathan Davies is the Finance Director of Allergan Aesthetics. He’s an skilled finance lead with robust enterprise and business focus.
Davies has broad worldwide trade expertise and a confirmed monitor document of shaping the technique and course of companies to realize worthwhile progress.
He provides appreciable worth and perception to every place he takes with robust business, analytical and communication abilities.
Paula Deegan, Chief Monetary Officer,
Aerospace Dublin
Paula Deegan is the Chief Monetary Officer at Dublin Aerospace. She has twelve years of expertise with the corporate, starting her profession in 2009 as a Monetary Controller earlier than changing into the Head of Finance after which CFO.
Deegan is expert in budgeting and dealing throughout the aviation trade, having gained earlier expertise with SR Technics Group as a Element Providers Accountant and Supervisor Controlling, together with FLS Aerospace and Aer Lingus.
She obtained a Bachelor’s Diploma in Enterprise Research from Dublin Institute of Expertise in 1991.
Enda Devine, Finance Director and Government Director,
IPB Insurance coverage
Enda Devine is a Fellow of the Affiliation of Chartered Licensed Accountants, a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers, a member of the Institute of Administrators in Eire and a member of the Insurance coverage Institute of Eire with a Diploma in Info Methods awarded by Trinity School Dublin.
He has held quite a lot of Senior Government and Board stage positions over the previous twenty years in main monetary companies organisations.
Jacinta Devine, Chief Monetary Officer,
Dole plc
Jacinta Devine was appointed to the Dole plc board on June thirtieth, 2022 and serves as Chief Monetary Officer. Previous to this she served as Company Secretary of Dole plc.
Devine was appointed to the function of Firm Secretary of Complete Produce plc in 2017 having beforehand held the function of Assistant Firm Secretary.
She joined the Group in 1996 and through this time held quite a lot of senior accounting and monetary positions together with Divisional Finance Director of Eire and the UK.
Dole plc imagine that Devine is certified to serve on the board of administrators as a consequence of her lengthy standing expertise in management positions in Complete Produce and Dole plc, her understanding of finance and monetary reporting processes, her expertise in senior monetary positions and her expertise and information of company governance issues from her time as Firm Secretary of a publicly traded firm.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Eire.
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