Board of Directors
Gary McGann (Chairman)
Gary McGann held various senior management positions in Irish
industry, including LM Ericsson Holdings, Gilbeys of Ireland and Grand Metropolitan Finance, prior to
joining Aer Lingus as Group Chief Executive in 1994. In 1998,
he joined the Smurfit Group as Chief Financial Officer and was appointed
President and Chief Operations Officer the following year. Elected to the
Board of Smurfit Group in 2000, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2002.
During 2005 he oversaw the successful merger of the Smurfit and Kappa
Groups to create the Smurfit Kappa Group, of which he remains chief executive.
Gary is the current President of IBEC.
Colm Barrington
Colm Barrington is Managing Director of Babcock &
Brown Limited, the Irish subsidiary of the Australian based global
investment company.where he specialises in aircraft financing. Prior to joining Babcock &
Brown in 1994, Colm held various positions in the aviation financing
industry, including the positions of President, GE Capital Aviation Services Limited, Chief Operating
Officer, GPA Group plc and Chief Executive, GPA Capital. He started his career with Aer
Lingus where he specialised in planning, hotel acquisitions and hotel
financing.
Declan Collier
Declan Collier joined the Dublin Airport Authority
as Chief Executive in April 2005. Prior to his appointment, Declan worked
all his professional career with ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest commercial
providers of energy, transportation services and infrastructure. Having
joined Exxon’s Irish subsidiary company, Esso Ireland Ltd,
in 1978, he subsequently held various senior management positions in Ireland
and the UK. From 2000 to 2002, he was Chairman and Lead Country Manager,
Esso Ireland Ltd and from 2002 to 2005 Declan was based in the UK
as Alternative Fuels & District Heating Manager, European Zone, ExxonMobil.
Bill Cullen
Bill Cullen has been Chairman and owner
of Renault Ireland, one of Ireland’s largest automotive retail and service
companies, since he acquired the business in 1986. A successful author, he is
also President of the Irish Youth Foundation, where he has been the principal
driver of successful fundraising campaigns for youth projects throughout
Ireland.
Des Cummins
Des Cummins is Chairman of the Cummins
Group that employs over 50 people in Ireland and the UK. A member of the
National Executive of the Small Firms Association for the past ten years, he has
participated in Government-sponsored Task Forces on Small Businesses and Company
Law Reform. He is a member of Comhar, the National Sustainable Development
Partnership.
Mary Davis
Mary Davis is CEO, Special Olympics Ireland
and former Chief Executive of the World Special Olympic Games held in Ireland
in 2003. Appointed by President McAleese as a Member of the Council of State
in 2004, she is currently Chairperson of the St. Patrick’s Festival. More recently
she was appointed by the Taoiseach as Chair of the task force on Active
Citizenship.
Pat Fitzgerald
Pat Fitzgerald was appointed to the Board in
March 2005 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts, 1997 and
1998. He was first appointed to the Board of Aer Rianta in 1994 and he
was reappointed in January 1998 and January 2002. Pat joined the company
in 1966 and works in the Catering Department at Shannon Airport.
Sir Michael Hodgkinson
Sir Michael Hodgkinson
joined the British Airport Authority (BAA) in 1992 as Group Airport Director,
having held senior management positions in the motor and food industries in
Britain and Europe. During his twelve years at BAA, including from 1999 to 2003
as Chief Executive, he had responsibility for expansion planning at BAA’s
airports including Heathrow and Stansted. He is a member of the UK’s
Commission for Integrated Transport, the UK Airports Advisory Council and the
Transport for London Committee.
Marion Keating
Marion Keating was appointed to the
Board in March 2005 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts,
1997 and 1998. She joined the company in 1976 and over the past 30 years
has worked in the Human Resources, Corporate Marketing and Retail Marketing
Departments. Since 1994 she has managed the company’s Employee Assistance
Programme, which provides information, advice, counselling and referral service
to Dublin Airport staff. She is a member of EAPA, the Employee
Assistance Professionals Association and a member of the Business and Life
Coaching Association of Ireland.
Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch was appointed to the
Board in March 2005 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts, 1997
and 1998. He has worked at Dublin Airport for the past twenty years and
has been manager of the Cleaning Section for the past ten. He is a member
of SIPTU and has represented the Cleaning Section at Local and Branch
level for many years. At present he is the Chairperson of the DAA Section of the
Professional & Managerial Branch.
Barry Nevin
Barry Nevin was appointed to the Board in
March 2005 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts, 1997 and 1998.
Barry joined the company in 1990 and works in the Airport Police/Fire
Service. He is a member of the National Executive of SIPTU and
the Dublin Airport Authority Group of unions.
Marie O'Connor
Marie O’Connor has been an audit
partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1986. As the firm’s Investment Manager
and Financial Services Leader, her most recent focus has been on advising
international companies developing operations in Dublin’s International
Financial Services Centre. Marie is currently a board member of the American
Chamber of Commerce in Ireland and of the Irish Chapter of the Irish US Council
for Commerce and Industry.
Anthony Spollen
Anthony Spollen is an
international consultant and advisor on internal audit issues and standards and has
advised the European Union Economic and Social Committee, amongst others, on
financial regulation matters. During his previous career at AIB, the major Irish bank, he
was Financial Controller of Allied Irish Investment Bank for seventeen years and
subsequently Head of Group Internal Audit at AIB itself for five years.
