Governance

John Killeen

President

Dr John Killeen is Chairman of the Marine Institute, and of 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.

Seamus McKeague

Vice President

Seamus McKeague is Managing Director 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.

David McDonagh

Secretary

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

Leo O’Reilly

Trustee

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.

Ciaran Murray

Trustee

Ciaran Murray is Managing Director of Galaxy Pharma Ltd, a pharmaceutical wholesaler in the UK. It is 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.

Susanna Cawley

Trustee

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

Anne Brady

Trustee

Anne is the Senior Partner at Anne Brady McQuillans DFK Chartered Accountants in Dublin. She specialises in advising charities and not-for-profit entities, as well as providing advice for business start-ups, fund-raising, implementing internal controls, and assisting with restructuring and reorganisation of companies. She sits on the Information Technology Services Committee of Chartered Accountants Ireland, and on the EMEA Board of DFK International. She lectures regularly for Chartered Accountants Ireland, Accounting Technicians Ireland, and Certified Public Accountants, and is a regular speaker at DFK international and national conferences. Prior to starting the practice in 1992, she worked and trained with KPMG.

Peter Keogh

Managing Partner, Keogh Somers Chartered Accountants

Anne Brady

Senior Partner, Anne Brady McQuillans DFK Accountants

Celine Maguire

Senior Human Resources Manager, Queally Group

Peter Flanagan

General Manager, Flanagan Kerins Furniture

John Geehan

Managing Director, MJM Corporate Solutions

Sean O’Kane

Programme Promotions Director

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.

Seamus McKeague

Vice President

Seamus McKeague is Managing Director 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.

John Killeen

President

Dr John Killeen is Chairman of the Marine Institute, and of 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.

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.

Rob Healy

Managing Director, Crofton Training

Ronan O’Farrell

CEO

Ronan is one of the founding partners of the Timoney Leadership Institute and became its first CEO in 2015. In 2017 he was appointed a Regional Fellow of IESE Business School in Ireland.

A graduate of International Commerce from UCD, he worked initially as a Strategic Analyst and then as International Brand Manager with Baileys Irish Cream.

He subsequently worked as Managing Director of Lismullin Institute (www.lismullin.ie) which is an educational initiative inspired by the catholic organisation Opus Dei. During his time he managed a €12 million expansion of Lismullin Conference Centre in County Meath, financed through a national fundraising campaign.

Along with other business leaders he launched the Lismullin Leadership Forum, which in 2012 led to the establishment of Timoney Leadership Institute. 

He is a board member of various educational charities including Rosemont School in Stepaside in Dublin.