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Board of Directors
Emer Daly
(Director join date: 20 September 2011)
Julie O’Neill
(Director join date: 28 January 2014)
Independent Non‐Executive
Independent Non‐Executive
Emer (50) is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
and has worked in senior roles with PricewaterhouseCoopers
and AXA Insurance. She is currently a Non‐Executive Director
of Friends Provident International Ltd (“FPI”) based in the Isle
of Man and Lombard S.A., based in Luxembourg and also
chairs the Audit Risk and Compliance Committee of both
companies. FPI and Lombard represent the international
division of the UK life assurance Group, Friends Life Group plc.
Emer is also Chairman of the Board of the Dublin Dental
University Hospital, a member of the Department of Foreign
Affairs Audit Committee and lectures in Risk Management in
the UCD Graduate Business School. She was previously a Non‐
Executive Director of Eirgrid plc where she chaired the Audit
Committee and Pensions Committee and was a member of the
Remuneration Committee. She was also a Non‐Executive
Director of Payzone plc and chair of its Audit Committee. She
was a member of the Property Registration Authority and of
the Audit Committee of the Department of Justice and
Equality. Emer brings her extensive skills and expertise in
accounting and risk management to the Board and her past
experience is of particular benefit as chair of the Audit
Committee.
Ken Slattery
(Director join date: 30 August 2013)
Independent Non‐Executive
Ken (65) is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers and a member
of the Institute of Directors. He has wide‐ranging experience
of the Irish Financial Services landscape having worked with
the Bank of Ireland Group for over 40 years. During his time
with BOI he held a number of senior management positions
including Director of Operations at BOI Corporate Banking and
more recently as Head of Payment and Electronic Services.
During this latter role, Ken was responsible for the
development, delivery and management of Internet Business
Banking and Electronic payments across the BOI Group.
Following retirement from BOI in 2006, Ken has broadened his
knowledge and experience through Non‐Executive Director
positions with a number Irish and Northern Ireland
Government departments, including Chair positions on Audit
and Risk Committees. During this time he has also maintained
his exposure to financial services through his directorship with
Realex Financial Services where he was chair of the Company’s
Audit and Risk Committees until August 2013. Ken’s general
banking experience compliments the existing skillset of the
Board and his prior experience as Chair of Audit and Risk
Committees in both the public and private sector has been of
particular benefit to the deliberations of the Audit Committee.
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Julie (58) served as Secretary General of the Irish Department
of Transport from 2002 until 2009 and in a public service
career spanning 37 years, worked in strategic policy
development and implementation with eight Government
Departments. She is now an independent strategic
management consultant and a Non‐Executive Director at
Ryanair plc. She is also a board member of the Sustainable
Energy Authority of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern
Art. She chairs the Audit Committees of Trinity College Dublin
and the China Research Group at the Institute of International
and European Affairs. She is also a member of the Institute of
Directors. Julie brings a wide range of economic and social
policy experience, as well as extensive administrative and
managerial experience to the deliberations of the Board.
Richard Pike
(Director join date: 28 January 2014)
Independent Non‐Executive
Richard (47) has extensive experience of working with
financial institutions throughout the world, assisting
companies in managing enterprise risk more efficiently while
addressing local regulatory guidelines and standards. He is
currently Senior Market Manager, EMEA at Wolters Kluwer
Financial Services and has previously worked in various senior
banking, insurance, credit and market risk roles at ABN AMRO,
Bain, COMIT Gruppe and Quay Financial Software. He has
analysed, designed and managed the development of core
treasury and enterprise risk management systems for large
financial institutions, including UBS, Citibank, Schroders and
Unicredito. In 2009, Richard was recognised as a “Top 50” Face
of Operational Risk by Op Risk & Compliance magazine and
was a contributing author to two books on risk management.
He is also a board member of the Enterprise Ireland /IDA
funded Governance, Risk and Compliance Competence Centre
which focuses on research in the area of Financial Services
Governance, Risk & Compliance. Richard brings a different
dimension to the Board, related to his in depth knowledge of
Enterprise Risk Management systems together with access to
his extensive network of banking and regulatory contacts in
both the Irish and international marketplaces.