CHI Board
Meet the CHI Board
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On this page you will find information about:
Dr Jim Browne, Chairperson
Former President of NUI Galway, Engineers Ireland, and the Irish Academy of Engineering. A number of past roles in a variety of Boards, including the Irish Universities Quality Board, the Saolta Hospital Group, Galway University Foundation, and the Board of the Central Applications Office.
Mr Con Cronin
Outgoing member of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin (OLCHC) Board, Chairman of Avison Young property advisors and chartered surveying firm, and past Chairman of the General Practice Committee of the Society of Chartered Surveyors.
Ms Mary Cryan
Former Human Resources Director with the Brown Thomas Group, and former Employer Member of the Labour Court. Board Member experience also includes: the Employment Equality Agency; Dublin Institute of Technology; and the National Employment Rights Agency.
Ms Mary Donovan
Mary Donovan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. She is an independent business consultant specialising in strategy development, business transformation and integration, working with Ireland’s global food companies. Mary is currently Chair of the Board of The Coombe Hospital and member of its Finance and Nominations Committee and a non-executive director of the Bons Secours Health System and chair of its People and Culture Committee. Previously, she has been a non-executive director of the Irish College of General Practitioners and Chair of its Audit and Risk Committee. Mary was also a former senior executive in the Diageo PLC global business.
Prof Martin Elliott
Provost of Gresham College, London; Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCL, London; Emeritus Professor of Physic at Gresham College London and former Paediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at Great Ormond Street London since 1984. He was co-Medical Director there from 2010 to 2015. He is a Non-Executive Director at the Royal Marsden Hospital London.
Ms Catherine Guy
Catherine is currently Chief Executive of NiftiBusiness. Catherine is an experienced solicitor and former managing partner of ByrneWallace Law Firm. She is a Chartered Director and is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the FAI (Football Association of Ireland).
Dr Gavin Lavery
Former ICU physician, President of the Intensive Care Society of Ireland and Clinical Director of HSC Safety Forum (NI). Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Trainer and former Clinical Assessor for the Health Foundation. Graduate of the Advanced Training Programme at the Intermountain Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Research.
Mr Bernard McLoughlin
Mr McLoughlin has both professional and academic experience in finance. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management with postgraduate qualifications in enterprise, sustainability, and climate risk.
He has held senior executive and advisory roles in the private and public sectors, in finance and risk, and has a successful track record in project finance and asset management, including public-private partnership transactions and the work out of multi-billion Euro distressed debt portfolios. He has also worked on the design, implementation, and reconfiguration of financial management and risk systems in health and education transition projects, outside Ireland and in diverse, multi-cultural settings.
Ms Brigid McManus
Experienced public sector leader. Former Secretary-General, Department of Education and Skills. Currently she is a member of the Governing Body of the National College of Ireland, chairs the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee and chairs the National Inland Fisheries Forum.
Ms Eleanor O’Neill
Eleanor was appointed to the board in 2020. She has more than 30 years’ experience in Digital Transformation roles in technology multinationals, Symantec, Visio, Microsoft, Marrakech and Digital Equipment Corp. Eleanor also serves as a Non-Executive director of Coillte, and the National Transport Authority (NTA).
Eleanor is an Engineering graduate of NUI Galway. In addition, she has post graduate qualifications in Cybersecurity from UCD and Corporate Governance from the Institute of Directors Ireland.