Enterprise & Finance has launched the annual CEO 100 Index, recognising the main chief executives working in Eire in 2022.
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Gene Murtagh, Group Chief Govt Officer,
Kingspan Group
Gene Murtagh is the Group Chief Govt of Kingspan Group. He was appointed to the Board in 1999. He was beforehand the Chief Working Officer from 2003 to 2005. Previous to that he was managing director of the Group’s Insulated Panel enterprise and of the Environmental enterprise. He joined the Group in 1993, and has a deep data of all the Group’s companies and wider constructing supplies and vitality effectivity industries.
Liam Nagle, Chairman & Chief Govt Officer,
Norbrook Laboratories Ltd.
Liam joined Norbrook in February 2015 as Chief Govt Officer. Since becoming a member of Norbrook, Liam has strengthened the Management Workforce and applied a 5-year strategic plan driving year-on-year progress. Liam was appointed Chairman & CEO in August 2019. Liam has greater than 30 years’ worldwide enterprise expertise in finance, operations, advertising in addition to mergers and acquisitions and has held senior roles in a variety of industries all through his profession. Previous to becoming a member of Norbrook, Liam was Chairman of SISK Group’s development and healthcare companies from 2014 to 2015, having beforehand held the place of Chief Govt of SISK Group from 2008-2014. In 2003 Liam grew to become Vice-President and Chief Working Officer of Bookham Expertise, the place he was appointed President and Chief Operations Officer in 2004. Previous to this, Liam was a senior government at Intel from 1994 to 1997 and led the beginning up for Bay Networks Europe as Vice-President of Operations from 1997-1998. When Nortel Networks acquired Bay Networks in 1998, he held quite a few senior roles in Nortel.
Tony Neary, VP and GM, Medtronic Galway Shared Website,
Medtronic
Tony Neary is VP of EMEA Operations and Normal Supervisor at Medtronic in Galway, and has been on this position since 2015. Beforehand, he was Senior Director of Operations from 2013 to 2015, and Program Director from 1994 to 2013.
Amanda Nelson, Chief Govt Officer, & Chair
Vodafone Eire
Amanda Nelson has been with Vodafone for nearly 25 years in varied roles starting in Asia in 1998 with Vodafone Japan, earlier than transferring to Europe to guide operations within the Netherlands, Malta and most just lately Hungary, the place she was CEO and Chair since 2018. Amanda has pushed digital innovation all through her profession by means of IT integration and transformation initiatives throughout the enterprise. As a passionate advocate of range & inclusion programmes, Amanda strongly helps expertise initiatives throughout Vodafone’s EU markets. Throughout her eight years at Vodafone Netherlands, Amanda held roles as Regional Finance Govt, Head of Finance Operations after which Advertising Director. After which she took up the position of CEO and Chair of Vodafone Malta in 2013. Most just lately as CEO of Vodafone Hungary, Amanda led digital change within the training and healthcare sector all through the pandemic, enabling clients to adapt and thrive in response to their altering circumstances and wishes. Below her tenure, 5G was rolled out in Budapest and different densely populated areas of the nation. Born in England, Amanda achieved a first-class honours diploma in Classical Research from the College of Bristol and has 4 teenage youngsters together with her husband Mark. She is a eager outside and journey sport fanatic and enjoys getting concerned in her area people.
Niall Norton, Chief Govt Officer,
Openet
Niall joined Openet in March 2004 as CFO earlier than changing into CEO in 2006. A winner of the European Entrepreneur of the 12 months in 2012 and the Ernst and Younger Entrepreneur of the 12 months in 2011, Niall was voted by Telecoms Enterprise Overview as one of many High 100 most influential individuals in world telecoms in 2017. He beforehand served as CFO of O2 Eire from 2001 to 2004.
Tom O’Brien, Managing Director,
Nephin Vitality
Tom is Managing Director of Nephin Vitality, Eire’s largest home producer of pure gasoline. He has over 20 years’ expertise within the vitality business. Tom was senior adviser and venture lead in Eire for CPP Funding’s $1.23 billion acquisition of Shell’ curiosity within the Corrib Gasoline Subject in 2018. He was subsequently requested by CPP to construct out and lead the corporate that will finally personal CPP’s curiosity within the subject, Nephin Vitality. Beforehand Tom held senior government roles at a number of Irish corporations, together with two Irish Plc’s. He has mentored on the Irish Inventory Change’s #IPOready management programme which is designed to assist formidable Irish corporations put together for several types of strategic funding choices, together with going public. A lawyer by coaching, Tom initially labored for over 10 years within the Initiatives & Vitality Division of considered one of Eire’s main legislation corporations, the place he labored on lots of Eire’s largest vitality, actual property, and infrastructure initiatives. Tom is an everyday contributor to vitality coverage debate in Eire. He holds an LLB from College School Cork, an LLM from College School London and a Diploma in Finance from College School Dublin.
Tomás O’Midheach, Chief Govt Officer,
FBD Holdings
Tomás Ó’Midheach has 25 years’ expertise within the monetary companies business spanning many numerous areas together with finance, information, buyer analytics, direct channels and digital. He spent 11 years with Citibank within the UK, Spain and Dublin the place he held a number of senior positions in Finance in the end assuming the place of CFO at Citibank Eire. He joined AIB in June 2006 and held quite a few senior government positions together with Head of Direct Channels & Analytics, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Working Officer. Previous to becoming a member of FBD, Mr. Ó’Midheach held the place Deputy CEO and was an Govt Board Member of AIB.
Tony O’Reilly, Founder & Chief Govt Officer,
dCarbonX
Tony O’Reilly is CEO and a Founding father of dCarbonX. A graduate of Brown College, Tony has 30 years C-suite expertise starting from giant, multi-site worldwide companies to start-ups in industries starting from oil and gasoline exploration to mining, to shopper media and luxurious items, to environmental expertise and monetary companies. As founder and CEO of Windfall Sources Plc, Tony led the Firm into main business transactions with main vitality gamers together with ExxonMobil, Eni, Petronas, Whole, Chevron and Chrysaor. Previous to Windfall, Tony was the CEO of Wedgwood and previous to that was Chairman and CEO of ARCON. Tony was additionally co-founder of two start-ups, Zenergy and Lockwood, which have been respectively concerned in excessive temperature superconductivity (HTS) expertise and funds administration.
John Energy, Founder & Chief Govt Officer,
Aerogen
A serial entrepreneur and former European Entrepreneur of the 12 months. John leads Aerogen, Irelands largest indigenous Med-tech firm and the world chief in Acute Care aerosol drug supply. Aerogen’s award-winning merchandise need to date helped deal with over 16 million critically sick sufferers in additional than 80 nations globally. John is acknowledged as each a expertise and enterprise innovator, credited with many commercialized worldwide patents, he’s an investor and Board member of a number of Irish and US based mostly Med-tech corporations. A founder school member of the Nationwide College of Eire Galway Bio- Innovate program, he has actively mentored many indigenous early stage Irish corporations. A Chartered Engineer, he holds an MBA from Oxford Brookes College, is an Adjunct Professor at NUIG the place in 2016 in recognition of his contribution to the event of the Irish Medical Gadget sector John was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate.
Mary Quaney, Group Chief Govt Officer,
Mainstream Renewable Energy
Mary was appointed Group Chief Govt Officer in August 2020. She joined Mainstream in 2009 and she or he held the position of Group Chief Monetary Officer since 2017. Mary has graduate and post-graduate {qualifications} from UCD and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) and Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA). She is an advocate and spokesperson on gender range and took part as a mentor for the International Wind Vitality Council’s (GWEC) Girls in Wind programme in 2019. Previous to becoming a member of Mainstream, Mary held senior-level positions in finance and company tax in PricewaterhouseCoopers and Trinity Biotech Plc.
Ger Rabette, Chief Govt Officer,
Uniphar
An business veteran, Ger joined Uniphar from Celesio, the place he was Managing Director of Movianto and Head of Celesio Manufacturing Options. He’s a Chartered Accountant by coaching and has held a variety of senior positions in provide chain with Cahill Could Roberts and the broader Celesio Group. He was appointed Chief Govt Officer in 2010.
Paul Rellis, Chief Govt Officer,
The Viatel Group
Paul Rellis is CEO of the Viatel Expertise Group, Eire’s main impartial digital companies group. An accounting graduate of Waterford Institute of Expertise, Paul started his in depth profession in the USA as an inside auditor for Coca-Cola within the early Nineties. An avid curiosity in expertise drew him to Microsoft the place he was appointed EMEA Finance Director for Operations in 2000. Seven years later he grew to become CEO for Microsoft Eire earlier than climbing the ranks to COO of the software program large’s Western Europe division. After leaving Microsoft, Paul joined Viatel as an investor and CEO in 2018. He has guided the crew by means of a big progress interval. A powerful customer support ethic, new merchandise and a number of acquisitions imply that Viatel is a €70 million turnover enterprise. Paul additionally acts as a Senior Advisory Workforce Member at Chirisa Capital Administration at Chirisa Investments and is a Non-Govt Director at Social Entrepreneurs Eire
Mark Roden, Founder & Chief Govt Officer,
Ding
Mark based Ding in 2006 to allow overseas employees overseas to immediately recharge cell phones of household and buddies again dwelling. In the present day he’s CEO and has been instrumental within the world enlargement of the enterprise. Previous to organising Ding, Mark based easycash, which deployed 500 in-store money ATMs in SPAR shops and ESSO filling stations round Eire and easycash grew to become the nation’s largest impartial money ATM operator and was acquired by RBS in 2004. In 1991, Mark helped Denis O’Brien set up Esat Telecom which broke the monopoly of telecoms companies in Eire in 1994, gained the second cell phone licence in 1995, listed on NASDAQ in 1997, and was acquired by BT in 2000. In October 2014, Mark was introduced as general winner in EY’s Entrepreneur of the 12 months in Eire.
Cecillia Ronan, Chief Govt Officer,
Citi Financial institution Europe
Cecilia Ronan was appointed the CEO for Citibank Europe Plc (CEP) in February 2020. In her position as CEO, Cecilia is accountable for supply of the technique, sturdy governance, finish to finish danger administration, prudent monetary administration and conduct and tradition for CEP. CEP employs over 11,500 individuals in Europe. Cecilia has additionally been Citi Nation Officer for Eire since March 2018, the place she leads the US banking large’s 2,500 staff, one of many largest employers within the IFSC. Citibank Europe Plc is headquartered in Dublin and accountable for the group’s banking actions throughout 22 EU nations.
Eamonn Rothwell, Chief Govt Officer,
Irish Contintental Group
Eamonn Rothwell, aged 66, has been a Director for 35 years having been appointed as a non-executive Director in 1987 and subsequently to the place of Chief Govt Officer in 1992. He’s additionally a Director of Interferry European Workplace A.I.S.B.L. He’s a former Director of The UK Mutual Battle Dangers Affiliation Restricted, Interferry Inc and The UK Mutual Steam Ship Assurance Affiliation (Bermuda) Restricted. He’s a previous government Director of former stockbrokers NCB Group, now a part of Tilman Brewin Dolphin. Previous to that, he labored with Allied Irish Banks plc and Fáilte Eire (The Irish Vacationer Board).
Edmond Scanlon, Chief Govt Officer,
Kerry Group
Edmond is a extremely skilled chief within the world meals and beverage business having spent nearly 20 years in senior roles throughout the Group. Edmond brings a strategic mindset to Kerry Group to drive Group efficiency and progress in addition to vital monetary and operational experience. Edmond joined Kerry’s graduate programme in Eire in 1996. Over his profession he has held management roles within the Group’s Flavours and Utilized Well being and Diet companies in addition to heading up the Group’s actions in China and the Asia Pacific area. Edmond was appointed Govt Director and Group Chief Govt Officer in October 2017.
Martin Shanahan, Chief Govt Officer,
IDA Eire
Martin Shanahan is CEO of IDA Eire. IDA (Industrial Improvement Company) is Eire’s inward funding promotion company accountable for the attraction and growth of overseas funding in Eire. Martin took up this place on the first September 2014. Martin is a board member of IDA Eire and Chairman of IDA Eire’s Funding Committee. Martin is an Adjunct Full Professor at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate College of Enterprise since September 2019. Previous to his present position, Martin was Chief Govt from 2010 to 2014 of Forfás – Eire’s coverage advisory board for enterprise, commerce, science, expertise and innovation. Martin has been to the forefront of the event of enterprise and innovation coverage in Eire for a few years. Martin is at the moment a member of Eire’s COVID Vaccine Taskforce. Martin has been recognised for his management within the space of range and inclusion and seems on the 2021Outstanding/Yahoo Finance listing of the High 100 Function Fashions world LGBT+ Executives.
Anne Sheehan, Normal Supervisor,
Microsoft Eire
Anne joined Microsoft Eire as Normal Supervisor in October 2021, taking accountability for the gross sales, advertising, and companies enterprise throughout the island of Eire – with a specific concentrate on delivering enterprise transformation with Microsoft’s clients and companions inside the private and non-private sectors. Previous to becoming a member of Microsoft, Anne was Enterprise Director at Vodafone UK, with accountability for gross sales, model, product and answer design, companies, and authorities relations, throughout a number of strains of enterprise. Earlier than assuming her UK obligations, Anne ran Vodafone Eire’s Enterprise Enterprise in Eire for 4 years. Beforehand, Anne labored at IBM for 16 years throughout quite a few senior positions, together with Vice President of Gross sales and Companies for the Nordic Area, Gross sales and Companies Director for IBM Eire, Head of Channel, and Head of Infrastructure & Expertise Companies. Anne holds a bachelor’s diploma in Enterprise Research, specialising in Accounting and Finance, and a Graduate Diploma in Computing, each from the College of Limerick. Anne is enthusiastic about partnering with Irish organisations to work collectively in the direction of an progressive and progressive digital world.”
Gavin Slark, Chief Govt Officer & Board Director,
Grafton Group Plc
Gavin Slark joined Grafton Group and the Board as Chief Govt Designate on 1 April 2011 and was appointed Chief Govt Officer on 1 July 2011. He’s at the moment a Non-Govt Director of Galliford Attempt Holdings plc, a UK housebuilding and development group. He was beforehand Group Chief Govt of BSS Group plc, a number one UK distributor to specialist trades together with the plumbing, heating and development sectors.
Tony Smurfit, Group Chief Govt Officer,
Smurfit Kappa
Tony Smurfit is the Group Chief Govt Officer of Smurfit Kappa Group plc (SKG), one of many main suppliers of paper-based packaging options on the earth. He was Chief Operations Officer from November 2002 to September 2015 and he has held quite a few different administration positions having labored in varied components of the organisation each in the USA and Europe since he joined the corporate in 1986. He was elected to the Board of Administrators in 1989. In the present day Smurfit Kappa operates in 36 nations globally and employs 48,000 individuals. The corporate is at the moment listed on the Dublin and London Inventory Exchanges and has a market capitalisation of roughly €11.7 billion. He was born in Wigan, England in 1963 and following his early education in Eire, he attended the College of Scranton in Pennsylvania the place he graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Administration Science. He’s a former Director of Aer Rianta (the Irish Airport Authority which is owned by the Irish Authorities), the Irish Nationwide Stud (an Irish Authorities owned operation), C&C plc, Ibec (Irish Enterprise Employers Confederation) and at the moment sits on the Board of ERT (European Spherical Desk of Business), and CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries). He was appointed Honorary Consul of Mexico to Eire in 2003 and was honoured by the French Authorities in 2004 when he was nominated Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour. He was subsequently nominated Commander of the French Legion of Honour in 2017. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Enterprise Administration and is a member of the Turf Membership of Eire. He’s married to Sharon they usually have 4 youngsters.
Susan Spence, Co-Founder & Chief Govt Officer,
Softco
Susan Spence is Co-Founder and CEO of Softco, a worldwide developer of monetary course of automation software program that will increase productiveness, reduces prices, and ensures that organisations meet compliance obligations. Susan has served as Govt Chairman of Softco since 1990. Headquartered in Dublin, SoftCo has workplaces within the USA, Eire, the UK, and Finland. Softco is a Microsoft Gold Companion and it has a million world customers throughout all business sectors. On Susan’s initiative, SoftCo sponsored the Irish girls’s hockey crew that gained silver within the World Cup in the summertime of 2018. Earlier than co-founding SoftCo, Susan held senior administration positions with Hewlett Packard, McDonnell Douglas, and Phillips BV.
Michael Stanley, Chief Govt Officer,
Cairn Houses Plc
Michael Stanley co-founded Cairn Houses plc and was appointed CEO previous to the IPO in June 2015. Michael has a powerful pedigree in residential growth and the broader property business. He was beforehand CEO of Stanley Holdings, a big Irish homebuilder and actual property funding firm. Michael additionally has in depth expertise within the packaging, vitality, agritech and healthcare sectors.
Margaret Sweeney, Chief Govt Officer & Board Director,
Irish Residential Properties REIT Plc
Margaret Sweeney is the Chief Govt Officer and a Board Director of Irish Residential Properties REIT Plc (I-RES). I-RES is the main supplier of professionally-managed non-public residential rental lodging in Eire. With a portfolio of c.4,000 properties, the corporate delivers high-quality residing lodging and repair in well-connected, family-friendly city communities. I-RES is a completely built-in Irish working firm with some 100 staff, and a powerful ESG focus. The corporate is a long-term investor within the Irish residential market, with shares listed on the Euronext Dublin Inventory Change. Margaret is Non-Govt director and Senior Unbiased Director of Dalata Resort Group Plc and was previously a board member to a number of regulated entities and listed corporations. A Fellow of Chartered Accountants Eire and a Chartered Director, she can be the Chair of the Business Advisory Board and an Adjunct Professor at Dublin Metropolis College (DCU) Enterprise College. Margaret is a Previous President of Dublin Chamber of Commerce and beforehand held the place of Chief Govt Officer of daa Plc (Dublin Airport Authority) and Postbank Eire Ltd. Margaret has a variety of private {and professional} pursuits, notably referring to sustainability and the event of girls leaders.D.
Laura Trimble, Chief Govt Officer & Head of Wholesale Banking,
HSBC Eire
Laura joined HSBC Eire in Could 2022 as CEO and Head of Wholesale Banking, following a 20-year profession with HSBC based mostly in London. Laura is accountable for all of HSBC’s operations in Eire, which embody a company banking enterprise that helps Irish corporates with their native and worldwide operations, in addition to a subsidiary banking enterprise that gives transactional banking companies reminiscent of commerce finance and money administration options to world multinationals with operations in Eire. HSBC additionally has a big securities companies enterprise in Eire supporting asset managers with fund administration, custody and fiduciary companies. Previous to becoming a member of HSBC Eire, Laura labored for HSBC in varied senior roles within the UK and Europe, most just lately as European Head of HSBC’s Origination enterprise. On this position, she was accountable for advising shoppers on all features of their strategic financing wants, together with structuring their capital base appropriately through debt and fairness options and advising on strategic occasions reminiscent of acquisition financing, capital markets exercise and preliminary public choices. This position included protection of HSBC’s company shoppers in 22 nations together with Eire, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel and South Africa, supported by a crew based mostly in London, Paris, Frankfurt and India. Laura has an in depth funding banking and business banking background with prior roles in leveraged finance, funding grade debt, convertible bonds and fairness capital markets. During the last decade Laura has performed a number one position in driving HSBC’s actions to supply an inclusive atmosphere for all colleagues. For instance, in 2020 she based HSBC’s European Shadow ExCo, a growth programme for colleagues to work with senior leaders on enterprise challenges reminiscent of sustainability, the way forward for work, and Europe’s place as a world connector. She additionally co-founded HSBC’s “Inclusive Europe” worker useful resource group in 2021, which leads actions to advertise cultural range and to make sure colleagues supporting inclusivity are recognised and rewarded.
Fernando Vicario, Chief Govt Officer,
Financial institution of America Europe DAC
Fernando Vicario is Chief Govt Officer of Financial institution of America’s lead European banking entity, Financial institution of America Europe DAC. Fernando Vicario was previously head of Company and Funding Banking for the European Union (EU) and head of Company Banking for Europe, Center East and Africa (EMEA), at BofA Securities. Fernando has labored for Financial institution of America for over 25 years throughout a number of roles together with head of Company Banking for Monetary Establishments in Europe and Rising Markets (ex-Asia), head of EMEA International Product Options, head of EMEA and Latin America Company Banking and co-head of EMEA Debt Capital Markets and Company Banking. Through the years he has led a big variety of progress initiatives throughout areas in these roles. Fernando sits on the EMEA regional government committee and the International Range & Inclusion Committee (D&I). He’s additionally co-chair of Financial institution of America’s EMEA D&I Council and co-leads the EMEA ESG Strategic Council. Fernando is a member of the Board of the ODI (Open Doorways Initiative) in Dublin. A local of Pforzheim, Germany and a Spanish nationwide, Fernando obtained a level in Banking and Finance from the Hochschule fuer Bankwirtschaft/Bankakademie in Frankfurt, Germany.
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