Enterprise & Finance has launched the annual CEO 100 Index, recognising the main chief executives working in Eire in 2022.
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Neil Freshwater, Chief Government Officer,
Zurich Insurance coverage Plc
Neil Freshwater is the CEO of Zurich Insurance coverage plc (ZIP) the principle licensed authorized entity for all EU primarily based common insurance coverage enterprise of the Zurich Insurance coverage Group, and was appointed to this position in July 2019. ZIP operates from its Head Workplace in Dublin and thru a community of 12 branches all through Europe, writing c€9bn Gross Written Premium every year. Neil joined Zurich in 2013 as CFO of Zurich’s UK Common Insurance coverage enterprise. Neil was subsequently appointed because the CEO of Zurich Legacy Options in 2016 the place he was answerable for the strategic administration, run-off and disposal of Zurich’s discontinued and non-core portfolios, de-risking legacy exposures, delivering financial and authorized finality, and enabling administration to focus human and monetary sources on Zurich’s core enterprise. Neil is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries with over 30 years of insurance coverage trade expertise in all kinds of roles together with UK CFO of Catlin, and in quite a few actuarial, finance, change and operational roles at Aviva and Swiss Re. Neil is a graduate of Loughborough College.
Stephen Garvey, Chief Government Officer
Glenveagh Properties Plc
Stephen Garvey was appointed chief government officer in August 2019. Stephen is answerable for delivering on the Glenveagh’s imaginative and prescient to create Eire’s main and most sustainable homebuilder. Stephen has over 20 years’ expertise within the development and property trade in Eire. Previous to founding his personal profitable residential growth enterprise, Bridgedale Houses, Stephen labored with quite a few Eire’s largest property builders. From 2014 to 2017, Stephen suggested and managed the acquisition of Irish residential growth alternatives on behalf of TIO RLF. A co- founding father of Glenveagh, Stephen had led the expansion and growth of Glenveagh since IPO.
Frank Gleeson, President & Chief Government Officer,
Aramark Northern Europe
Frank Gleeson is President and CEO of Aramark Northern Europe. Aramark is among the largest built-in suppliers of meals providers, services administration, retail operations, and property providers within the area. In his present position, Frank serves as a member of the Government Management Council of Aramark Company. He’s answerable for operations that span Eire, the UK, and a World Offshore enterprise within the North Sea, Center East, and Mexican Gulf – encompassing a workforce in extra of 15,000 individuals at anybody time. Frank joined Aramark in 2013 from Topaz Vitality Group the place he was Retail Director. Previous to that, he served in senior management positions for Statoil, O’Brien’s Off-Licenses, and commenced his retail operations profession in Xtra-Imaginative and prescient Eire. Since beginning out as a teen in household restaurant and cafés, Frank has all the time positioned a major deal with the hospitality and customer-service facet of enterprise. He actually believes within the energy of terrific buyer expertise, in addition to the significance of on-the-job studying and growth. A graduate of the Irish Administration Institute, Frank has lengthy been a board member of IBEC, and earlier this 12 months was re-appointed to Authorities’s Labour Market Advisory Council, chairing its employers’ sub-group. He’s a former Chairman of Retail Eire; a former board member of the Nationwide Transport Authority, and was elected Chairman of NACS, the worldwide commerce affiliation of comfort shops.
John Goulding, Chief Government Officer & Co-Founder,
Workvivo
John Goulding is CEO and co-founder of Workvivo, the worker communications platform designed to interact and join staff regardless of the place they work from. John was beforehand CEO of CoreHR, a world chief within the HR tech area, and Senior Director of World Assist in EMC (now Dell EMC). John based Workvivo alongside together with his co-founder and CTO Joe Lennon in 2017 to raise the worker expertise for all. Workvivo works with among the world’s greatest manufacturers to spice up retention and produce their office tradition to life digitally. Workvivo is backed by Tiger World, Frontline Ventures, Enterprise Eire and Zoom founder Eric Yuan.
Séamus Hand, Managing Accomplice,
KPMG in Eire
Séamus is the Managing Accomplice of KPMG in Eire and is a member of KPMG’s World and EMA boards. Séamus beforehand was a associate in KPMG’s monetary providers follow in Eire and labored with many world and home purchasers within the asset administration, aviation, banking and insurance coverage sectors.
Paddy Hayes, Chief Government Officer,
ESB Networks
Paddy Hayes was appointed Chief Government of ESB in August 2021 and is spearheading ESB’s technique to achieve internet zero by 2040. Previous to this, he headed up two of ESB’s principal working divisions as Government Director of ESB’s Era & Wholesale Markets enterprise after which as Managing Director of ESB Networks. He joined ESB in 1999 from British Metal to steer the Synergen three way partnership between ESB and Statoil. He has is a chartered engineer with a Grasp’s Diploma in Engineering from UCD and an MBA from the College of Warwick, and is a board member of the Electrical Energy Analysis Institute (EPRI).
Jason Hawkins, Chief Government Officer,
Carbery Group
Since January 2018, Jason Hawkins has been the Chief Government Officer and a board member of Carbery Group, a number one worldwide producer of dietary substances, flavours and an award-winning cheese producer. Headquartered in Ballineen, Co. Cork, Carbery is owned by 4 Irish co-operatives; Bandon, Barryroe, Drinagh and Lisavaird, and employs nearly 1000 individuals throughout eight areas together with Eire, the UK, the USA, Brazil, Italy, Indonesia and Thailand. Initially from Tralee, Co Kerry, Jason’s earlier position was Chief Working Officer with Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), the place he had duty for the organisation’s world substances enterprise. DFA is a number one world dairy co-operative, primarily based in Kansas, USA. Previous to DFA, Jason had a protracted and distinguished profession with Kerry Group, which he joined as a graduate accountant in 1999, after finishing his enterprise diploma on the Institute of Know-how Tralee. For many of his profession, Jason has lived and labored in america, holding a number of management positions inside the Style & Diet division of Kerry Group, the place he was answerable for the imaginative and prescient, technique and progress of a number of of Kerry’s companies within the area. Jason is a certified accountant with the Chartered Institute of Administration Accountants.
Paul Healy, Chief Government Officer,
Skillnet Eire
Paul is the Chief Government of Skillnet Eire, the Irish Authorities company devoted to the event of modern expertise for the enterprise sector. He’s a revered commentator within the arenas of enterprise and labour market coverage, human useful resource growth and public affairs with 20 years’ government degree expertise spanning each the semi-State and multinational sectors. Paul is a member of Eire’s Nationwide Expertise Council, Nationwide Coaching Fund Advisory Group, the EU Fee Expertise for Business Coverage Group and the European Digital SME Alliance.
Margaret Heffernan, Chief Government Officer,
Dunnes Shops
Margaret Heffernan is the CEO of Dunnes Shops. In 1956, Margaret left college and began working at Dunnes Clothes Store, her household enterprise, on the age of 14. In 1988, Heffernan based the Individuals In Want Belief. Since its founding, the belief has raised tens of millions of euro in assist of native charity work. Her charity work has earned her the Metropolis of Dublin’s Millennium Award in 1988 in addition to the Lord Mayor’s Award in 1989. She grew to become the director of the shop in 1964. By 1995, Heffernan was appointed as head of all the Dunnes Shops. In 2007, Heffernan was given an honorary diploma of Physician of Legal guidelines from the Nationwide College of Eire. She additionally acquired an honorary diploma from College School Dublin.
Aongus Hegarty, President, Worldwide Markets, Dell Applied sciences,
DELL Eire
Aongus serves as President of Dell Applied sciences for Worldwide Markets. He has general duty for enterprise and technique throughout these world areas, main a workforce of over 50,000 gross sales, options and providers professionals enabling prospects to remodel their enterprise for the subsequent knowledge decade. Aongus has over three a long time expertise in know-how and is a twenty-year veteran of Dell Applied sciences, having held a number of President, VP & GM roles throughout the enterprise.
Aongus beforehand held senior common administration, operations, manufacturing and engineering management positions with Modus Media, RR Donnelley and Digital Tools Company. Aongus was recognised as one of many High 10 Variety Champions in The Economist World Variety Listing and was invited by the Irish Authorities to affix the Higher Steadiness for Higher Enterprise Overview Group to advocate how extra ladies may be concerned in high degree determination making in Eire. Internally Aongus co-leads the World Ladies’s Community, is a member of the World Variety Council, chaired by Michael Dell, and co-leads the corporate’s CIO Advisory Boards.
Since 2017 Aongus has been Chairman of the Government Council for the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union; the council helps guarantee a growth-oriented enterprise and funding local weather in Europe. He’s additionally a member of the Particular Olympics Eire Council of Patrons. Aongus is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Administration Accountants (CIMA) and holds a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise research from the College of Limerick the place he was offered with the Alumni Award for Excellent Achievement in 2013. In 2019 Aongus acquired a prestigious life fellowship from the Irish Administration Institute (IMI), becoming a member of a listing of IMI Fellows who’re serving to to remodel the worldwide enterprise setting.
Paul Henderson, Chief Government Officer,
DMG Media
Paul’s profession has all the time been in Irish media. Rising up in Dublin, Paul’s dad and mom ran a grocery store, he grew up fascinated by Irish media, notably Irish individuals’s obsession with demise notices. He vividly remembers key dates throughout the Irish media panorama ncluding the furore when The Herald newspaper modified from broadsheet to tabloid in 1982 (earlier than he was a teen). One in every of his very first jobs was delivering newspapers unaware that twenty-five years later he can be working one among Eire’s largest publishers. Paul began his formal media profession with The Irish Star the place he later grew to become Director of Gross sales. He additionally labored because the Gross sales Supervisor at TV3 (now Virgin Media) the place he was a part of the launch workforce a earlier than impartial tv first went to air in Eire. Since September 2009, Paul has been CEO of DMG Media, the house of a few of Eire’s greatest identified media manufacturers: The Irish Every day Mail, The Irish Mail on Sunday, EVOKE, RollerCoaster.ie, Additional.ie, OneFabDay.com and Mail On-line.
Peter Hendrick, Chief Government Officer,
Nationwide Broadband Eire
Peter Hendrick is the CEO of NBI, taking cost of one of the vital bold telecoms tasks on this planet, ending the digital divide in Eire. Having labored on the undertaking since 2015, Peter efficiently led NBI by means of the aggressive bid for the Nationwide Broadband Plan because the Managing Bid Director, heading up a workforce of among the greatest and brightest minds in telecoms. Peter holds 20 years of telecom, engineering, gross sales & government expertise and has held senior roles in Siemens and enet. In 2006, he co-founded AirSpeed Telecom, serving as the corporate’s Chief Operations Officer till 2015, serving to construct it right into a nationwide telecoms enterprise centered on delivering managed telecommunication providers to each retail and wholesale prospects throughout Eire. Following Granahan McCourt’s acquisition of AirSpeed Telecom in 2014, Peter led the combination of the corporate with enet Wholesale networks. Peter has acquired quite a few trade awards throughout his profession, together with a high ten putting within the Deloitte Quick 50 Know-how Awards and the Irish Occasions Tech 50. He holds an honours diploma in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications and Electronics from Dublin Institute of Know-how and has continued to assist the institute within the position of exterior examiner overlaying each digital and electrical engineering disciplines.
Mark Hendricks, Chief Government Officer,
Genesis Automation
Mark is a healthcare info know-how skilled with over 25 years of operational, technical, consultative gross sales, and gross sales administration expertise for care suppliers, info know-how answer suppliers, and healthcare consultancies. He has demonstrated success and confirmed outcomes to unravel healthcare operational challenges and enterprise points by designing, promoting, and delivering options that embody the suitable mixture of know-how, purposes, operational redesign, and alter administration.
Neil Hosty, Chief Government Officer,
Fexco
Neil Hosty was appointed CEO of Fexco Group, a pioneer, and a pacesetter in modern fintech options in January 2022. He’s answerable for driving Fexco’s know-how and innovation led progress agenda throughout its core enterprise areas of Fintech, Funds and Enterprise Options, and into new sectors resembling sustainability.
Harry Hughes, Chief Government Officer,
Portwest
Harry is CEO of Portwest, a world-leading protecting put on firm owned and operated by brothers Cathal, Harry and Owen Hughes. Harry studied and labored for seven years within the UK after which returned to the household enterprise in 1978. Portwest function in over 130 nations. Harry received the EY Entrepreneur of the 12 months worldwide class and the general award in 2017.
Devan Hughes, Co-Founder & Chief Government Officer,
buymie
Devan Hughes is CEO & Co-Founding father of buymie, the same-day, big-basket grocery supply supplier. Through the use of native private customers choosing from native shops, the buymie grocery supply service has been delighting time-poor prospects in Eire and the UK since launching in 2016. Via buymie’s modern real-time order bundling algorithm, the corporate saved 100,000 journeys in 2022 by lowering the variety of particular person shopper automobile journeys for groceries. buymie customers don’t have any limitation on basket dimension and have entry to no matter merchandise are in a buyer’s native retailer – roughly 20,000 – 35,000 SKUs. A private shopper is then appointed, permitting for seamless communication throughout the buying course of, and making certain the most effective substitutions and highest high quality contemporary produce are chosen. buymie employs 70 staff throughout its Dublin, London and Armenian workplaces and boasts a community of circa 400 private customers. It’s partnered with main retailers resembling; Dunnes Shops and Lidl in Eire, and Asda and Co-Op within the UK. Buymie is at present obtainable in six cities; Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick in Eire, and Bristol and Leeds within the UK. As of 2022, 1 in 8 households in Dublin have used the buymie app for grocery supply.
Colin Hunt, Chief Government Officer,
AIB Group Plc
In March 2019, Colin was appointed Chief Government Officer of AIB and an Government Director on the AIB Board. He joined AIB in August 2016 as Managing Director, Wholesale, Institutional & Company Banking Division and instantly grew to become a member of the manager committee. Previous to becoming a member of AIB, he was Managing Director at Macquarie Capital the place he led the event of its enterprise in Eire. Beforehand, he was a Particular Coverage Adviser on the Departments of Transport and Finance, Analysis Director and Chief Economist at Goodbody Stockbrokers, Head of Buying and selling Analysis and Senior Economist at Financial institution of Eire Group Treasury and a rustic threat analyst at NatWest. He has a Phd in Economics from Trinity School, Dublin and levels in Commerce & Economics from College School, Cork. He served as a Non-Government Director of Aer Lingus Group plc from 2008 to 2014. Colin can be a Director of the Eire Funds, Eire Chapter.
Imelda Hurley, Chief Government Officer,
Coillte
Imelda Hurley has in depth government and non-executive expertise in public firm, state owned, personal fairness and enterprise capital backed companies. She has constructed that have in a number of geographies together with Eire, UK, Jap Europe, and Asia, and throughout quite a lot of sectors together with forestry, agriculture, meals, know-how associated product growth and provide chain administration. Imelda is the CEO at Coillte, Eire’s state forestry firm which is answerable for managing 440,000 hectares of primarily forested lands. Coillte is the nation’s largest forester and producer of licensed wooden, a pure, renewable, and sustainable useful resource. Coillte can be the biggest supplier of outside recreation area in Eire. It permits wind-energy on the property, processes forestry by-products and undertakes nature rehabilitation tasks of scale.
Imelda’s focus is on delivering a sustainable future for all by making certain that Coillte balances and delivers the a number of advantages of forestry, together with forests for local weather, for wooden, for nature and for individuals. She can be a non-executive director at Dole plc and was not too long ago introduced because the president of Ibec. As well as, she is a patron of Chapter Zero Eire, a neighborhood of non-executive administrators that lead Irish boardroom discussions on the impacts of local weather change. Previous to becoming a member of Coillte,
Imelda was an government director and CFO with agri-services group Origin Enterprises plc and, earlier in her profession, she held a variety of senior management positions at PCH Worldwide and Greencore Group plc. She has additionally beforehand served as a non-executive director of Complete Produce plc, Valeo Meals and Ervia. Imelda is a graduate of College of Limerick, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an alumna of Harvard Enterprise College.
Peter Jackson, Chief Government Officer
Flutter Leisure
Previous to changing into Chief Government Officer, of Flutter Leisure, Peter was Chief Government Officer of Worldpay UK, an working division of Worldpay Group plc. He was previously Chief Government Officer of Travelex Group. He then joined Banco Santander as Head of World Innovation and a Director of Santander UK Group Holdings plc. Peter’s earlier expertise consists of senior positions at Lloyds and Halifax Financial institution of Scotland, in addition to time at McKinsey & Firm. He holds an MEng diploma. He’s the Non-Government Director of Deliveroo plc and has been Non-Government Director of Betfair Group plc since April 2013 and Paddy Energy Betfair plc since February 2016.
John Jordan, Chief Government Officer,
Ornua
John Jordan is the Chief Government of Ornua, Eire’s largest dairy exporter, exporting to 110 nations worldwide, and the proprietor of Eire’s solely €1 billion meals model, Kerrygold. With a 25-year profession in agribusiness, John was appointed CEO in 2018 and has overseen vital progress in gross sales and worth returned to shareholders, while additionally steering Ornua by means of a major Governance restructure. Previous to his appointment, John held quite a few senior roles within the enterprise together with CEO of DPI Specialty Meals, a division of Ornua which is the third largest specialty meals wholesaler and distributor within the US. John is a graduate of Biotechnology from Dublin Metropolis College, with an M.Sc. from UCD and an MBA from Trinity School Dublin. John additionally serves on the Board of Ornua Co-Op, Nextwave Distribution and is a member of the Advisory Board of Dublin Metropolis College Enterprise College.
Jim Joyce, Chief Government Officer & Co-Founder,
Healthbeacon
Jim co-founded HealthBeacon with Kieran Daly in 2013. Previous to HealthBeacon, Jim was the CEO of Level of Care Well being Companies which he established and bought to Uniphar plc. Jim has held senior positions with Schering-Plough (now Merck & Co. Inc,) as Common Supervisor of Eire and Director of Finance for Europe, Center East, Canada and america. Previous to the pharmaceutical trade Jim labored in monetary providers for funding companies of Smith Barney, Brown Brothers Harriman and AG-Edwards. Jim holds a BA in Economics from Fordham College and an MBA from College School Dublin.
Siobhán Talbot, Group Managing Director & Government Director,
Glanbia Plc
Siobhán Talbot was appointed as Group Managing Director of Glanbia on 12 November 2013, having been appointed Group Managing Director Designate on 1 June 2013. She was beforehand Group Finance Director and her position encompassed duty for Group strategic planning. She has been a member of the Group Working Government since 2000 and the Board since 2009 and has held quite a few senior positions since she joined the Group in 1992. She can be a Director of the Irish Enterprise Employers’ Confederation (IBEC) and was appointed as a Non-Government Director of CRH plc efficient 1 December 2018. Previous to becoming a member of Glanbia, she labored with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin and Sydney. A Fellow of Chartered Accountants Eire, Siobhán graduated from College School Dublin with a Bachelor of Commerce diploma and Diploma in Skilled Accounting. She is Non-Government Director of CRH plc and Director of the Irish Enterprise Employers’ Confederation (IBEC).
Tommy Kearns, Chief Government Officer,
Xtremepush
Tommy Kearns is CEO of Xtremepush, a world buyer engagement, personalisation, and knowledge platform. It gives manufacturers with wealthy engagement capabilities throughout a number of channels together with e-mail, web site, cellular app, SMS and social messengers. The platform additionally empowers manufacturers to unify their knowledge for a real Single Buyer View, and combines enterprise-grade analytics with a full suite of marketing campaign optimisation instruments.
Séamus Keating, Chief Government Officer,
FD Applied sciences
Séamus was appointed as CEO in January 2020. He was first appointed to the FD Applied sciences Board as an impartial Non-Government Director in December 2012 and was appointed Non-Government Chairman in July 2013. He has over 20 years’ expertise within the world know-how sector in finance and operational roles and has held quite a few non-executive roles since 2012. He was chief monetary officer of Logica plc from 2002 till 2010 when he grew to become Chief Working Officer and head of its Benelux operations. Previous to his position at Logica plc, he labored for the Olivetti Group in senior finance roles within the UK and Italy.
Noel Keeley, Group Chief Government Officer,
Musgrave Group
Noel Keeley is group CEO of Musgrave, and Irish meals retail, wholesale and foodservice firm with 11 market main manufacturers throughout the Republic of Eire, Northern Eire and Spain together with SuperValu, Centra, Frank and Sincere, Donnybrook Honest and Musgrave MarketPlace. Noel has over 30 years’ expertise in senior and government management roles in each personal and public sector organisations. He has beforehand held the positions of Managing Director for Musgrave Wholesale Companions and Group HR Director with Musgrave. Previous to becoming a member of Musgrave in 2005 Noel was Vice President for Human Assets with College School Cork. He has additionally held quite a few senior management roles with the Canadian Authorities in Northern Canada the place he lived and labored for 10 years. Noel holds an MBA from the Smith College of Enterprise, Queens College, Canada.
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