Governance

John Killeen

Chairman, Marine Institute

Dr John Killeen is Chairman of the Marine Institute, Irish Lifeboats, the Colas Group and Interim Chair of the Saolta Hospital Group. Dr John Killeen is an engineer and a native of Co. Roscommon who became an Honorary Freeman of Galway City in 2012. His career spans periods working with Local Government, with a multinational construction company (which built the Grand Canal tunnel in Dublin in 1973), and seven years with a Shell International subsidiary. He was President of Engineers Ireland in 1995-1996 and founding President of the Academy of Engineering in Ireland in 1996-1998. He was CEO of the Colas Group in Ireland, and Managing Director of Cold Chon Galway Ltd. In 2013 he was appointed to the West Northwest Hospital Group Board and is currently its Interim Chair. In 2009 he was chairman of the Volvo Ocean Race event in Galway and in 2012 was president of the Volvo Ocean Race finale and festival, which broke all attendance records for a sporting event in Ireland, and was worth about €80m in tourism and business income to the city. Read more here - www.marine.ie/Home/site-area/about-us/board-members.

Susanna Cawley

Managing Partner, Coonan Cawley Solicitors

Susanna Cawley is a partner at Coonan Cawley Solicitors in Naas. She qualified as a solicitor in 1997, has a degree in economics and politics, as well as a masters degree in economics. She was a member of the lecturing staff at the Department of Economics in UCD for a two-year period and uses her experience from this in her legal practice, where she specialises in private clients and commercial law. She also focuses on the provision of a wide range of services including financial, tax and estate planning, conveyancing both commercial and private, company law and family law. See more at -  www.coonancawley.ie/our-people/#sthash.gCJFWWXE.dpuf

Seamus McKeague

CEO, Creagh Concrete

Seamus McKeague is CEO of Creagh Concrete Products in Antrim, one of the largest and most innovative producers of concrete products for a diverse range of market sectors throughout Ireland and the UK.
Seamus joined Creagh Concrete in 1983 and became Managing Director and part owner in 1986. He graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a degree in Civil Engineering and has spent the last number of years growing the Creagh business along with the other Directors. Seamus has six children and is actively involved in his local parish and GAA club. He was a finalist in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013. He is a director of Habitat NI and President of the International Prestressed Hollowcore Association.

Anne Brady

Director I Financial Advisory, Crowley DFK

Anne is a Director in the Financial Advisory Department at Crowleys DFK. She has built up an in-depth knowledge of clients’ needs and business affairs over many years.

Anne is a well-respected member in the accounting community and is a former member of the QARC (Quality Assurance Review Committee) of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board. She currently sits on the Technology Committee of Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Anne is a member of Chartered Accountants Ireland, the Irish Taxation Institute, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Life Insurance Association (LIA). She has also successfully completed the Certificate in Charity Law, Trusteeship and Governance with the Law Society of Ireland. Prior to starting her own practice in 1992, Anne both worked and trained with KPMG.

Anne is Vice President of DFK EMEA and a regular speaker at their national & international conferences.

Ciaran Murray

Director

Ciaran Murray is a director of the Queally Group in Kildare. He was Managing Director of Galaxy Pharma Ltd, a pharmaceutical wholesaler in the UK, a global provider, supplying branded medicines to an expanding range of customers throughout the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare sector. He is also a director of RACE, the Racing Academy & Centre of Education, in Kildare.

David McDonagh

Secretary

David is the Financial Controller of the Irish Farmers Journal, and company secretary to the Irish Agricultural Trust.

Leo O’Reilly

Director

Leo O’Reilly is Permanent Secretary of the Northern Ireland Department for Communities. He was previously Permanent Secretary of the Department of the Environment, and earlier Permanent Secretary of the Department of Finance and Personnel. A graduate of Queen’s University Belfast, he later obtained a Masters in Public Policy Analysis at the University of Ulster, and a Diploma in Public Finance and Leadership from Warwick University.

Peter Keogh

Managing Partner, Keogh Ryan Tierney Chartered Accountants

Peter Flanagan

General Manager, Flanagan Kerins Furniture

Celine Maguire

Group Head of HR, Queally Group

Celine Maguire is Head of HR for The Queally Group who are one of Ireland’s largest privately owned agri-businesses with multi-disciplined food manufacturing facilities located throughout Ireland, the United Kingdom and around the globe.  Celine graduated from UCC with a degree in Science, has a post graduate diploma in HR from the NCI before completing a Masters in Science. She is also a Fellow of the CIPD. She lectures part time in the area of IR and Organisational Behaviour on the Business Degree programme at TU Dublin.  She has worked for both family and multinational organisations ranging from Retail to Electronics and more recently FMCG in all areas of HR. Celine is passionate about people development and a strong advocate of the Advanced Leadership Programme.

Anne Brady

Director I Financial Advisory, Crowley DFK

Anne is a Director in the Financial Advisory Department at Crowleys DFK. She has built up an in-depth knowledge of clients’ needs and business affairs over many years.

Anne is a well-respected member in the accounting community and is a former member of the QARC (Quality Assurance Review Committee) of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board. She currently sits on the Technology Committee of Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Anne is a member of Chartered Accountants Ireland, the Irish Taxation Institute, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Life Insurance Association (LIA). She has also successfully completed the Certificate in Charity Law, Trusteeship and Governance with the Law Society of Ireland. Prior to starting her own practice in 1992, Anne both worked and trained with KPMG.

Anne is Vice President of DFK EMEA and a regular speaker at their national & international conferences.

Richa Pathak

Director, Productivity Technology, Workday Inc;

Richa is Head of Product Management in Customer Deployment Tools at Workday. Richa is a Product Innovation and Business Strategy professional with cross-cultural and cross-regional relationship management experience. She is passionate about technology, sustainability and mentoring, and an active supporter of Ireland’s start-up ecosystem. Previously Richa was Innovation Manager at Citi and consultant at Capgemini. She has an MBA from IESE Business School and a Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from Nagpur University, India. She is a mother and wife, and in her free time she loves to dance and travel.

Sean O’Reilly

Security and Governance Director, Cloud Operations and Innovation, Microsoft

Sean is a senior operations leader with over 30 years experience of managing and scaling high-performance teams within the manufacturing, engineering and IT verticals of multinational companies such as Intel, Amazon and Microsoft.
Over the course of his career, he has been fortunate to have had a direct impact on the strategic development and implementation of some of these organisations’ most innovative and critical business lines.
Sean has a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechanical EngineeringUniversity College Dublin and HDip in Information Technology, Computer Science from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Kay McCarthy

Founder & MD, MCCP, The Independent Strategy Agency

Kay McCarthy started her own business during the economic downturn in 2008. Kay’s experience in strategy came from her time in McCann Global, where she held senior leadership roles including EVP Strategy Director for EMEA, Deputy MD for their Dublin office and prior to as well as Senior brand marketing roles at Diageo Dublin and NatWest London.
Kay set up a Leading Strategy Consultancy Agency, MCCP, whose specialism is research, brand, communications, and innovation strategy to meet clients need for clarity of focus so as to grow in times of rapid change and uncertainty.
Kay and the MCCP team have been long-term strategic partners for a large base of Irish and International clients including Smurfit Kappa, Heineken Ireland, Pernod Ricard, Glen Dimplex, Encirc, Bord Bia, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Enterprise Ireland, PTSB, Chadwicks, RTE, An Post, Aer Lingus, Tourism Ireland, Department of Health, TU Dublin, Irish Cancer Society, Camile Thai, Just Eat, Clonakilty Black Pudding amongst many others.
Kay and her team have led the development of game-changing award-winning propositions such as the Wild Atlantic Way, Fly Smart for Aer Lingus, Orchard Thieves cider proposition, research for the Dept of Health to inform communications in the early stages of covid 19.
Kay believes in purpose led business and MCCP’s purpose is to help make business better. Kay held the Chair role of the Irish marketing Society in 2007/8 and under her leadership the team reversed declining membership and put in place a successful strategy for growth. Kay is a regular keynote speaker at leadership events with a focus on brands and consumers including the prestigious Cannes worldwide advertising festival, Irish Advertising Practitioners Institute and the Marketing Institute Ireland.
Kay holds a BA in European Studies from University College Cork and a Masters in Econ (Double) from Trinity College Dublin. Kay completed the Advanced Leadership Course at Timoney in 2016.

Sean O’Kane

Managing Director (NI)

Sean is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, holding an MSc in Management Practice. A highly experienced retail banker, with 15 years’ senior management and executive experience, he spent most of his career in front line branch banking. In 2008 he was appointed Head of Regulatory Compliance for AIB Group (UK) plc, and was a member of the AIB UK Divisional Management Team. In December 2013 he availed of an early retirement opportunity to pursue other interests. He remains a director of AIB Pensions UK Limited, and joined the Timoney Leadership Institute as Programme Promotions Director in 2016.

Paul Harman

Programme Director

Paul is one of the founders of the Timoney Leadership Institute and also director of the Lismullin Leadership Forum, from which the Institute developed. He is director of the biennial Cleraun Media Conferences which focus on professional integrity and ethics for journalists and filmmakers and also works with the information office of the Opus Dei Prelature. After graduating from UCD in mechanical engineering, he worked on automobile engine research, and later as a production engineer, production manager and general manager with international companies in Ireland and Italy.