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Board of Directors and Corporate Information

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  • 1. John Fitzgerald

    F.C.C.A.
    Chairman – 2,3
    Age 62
    Appointed 1 March, 2008
    Mr. Fitzgerald has spent most of his career working in local government, serving in several senior positions, including that of Dublin City Manager from 1996 until 2006. Currently, he is Chairman of the Grangegorman Development Agency and of the two Regeneration Agencies set up in Limerick following his report to Government on problems of social exclusion in that city. He is also vice Chairman of InterTradeIreland, the all island trade and business development body.

  • 3. Jerry Condon

    Employee Director – 2
    Age 55
    Appointed 1 November, 2008; fourth term
    Mr. Condon commenced work in 1971 with the Department of Posts and Telegraphs and has worked as a Post Office Clerk for his entire career. He has been an active member of the Communications Workers Union throughout his career and he served on the national executive of that union for thirteen years.

  • 5. Anne Connolly

    B.A., M.B.A.
    Director – 2
    Age 55
    Appointed 23 November, 2007 Ms. Connolly is currently working as Director of the Ageing Well Network. She is also a director of Anne Connolly Consulting Limited, a strategic management consultancy company. Prior to forming this company, she worked as strategy manager with Kingspan plc and, before that, at senior management level in the public and not-for-profit sectors. She has previously been on the boards of ICC Bank plc and APSO and she was chairperson of the Federation of Simon Communities in Ireland.

  • 7. Patrick Davoren

    Employee Director
    Age 59
    Appointed 1 November, 2008; fifth term
    Mr. Davoren commenced work in 1965 with the Department of Posts and Telegraphs and has worked as a Post Office Clerk for his entire career. He has been an active member of the Communications Workers Union throughout his career. He was a local branch treasurer for twenty years and he served on the national executive of the union for two years.

  • 9. Ciara Hurley

    B.B.S., M.B.S. (Banking & Finance), M.S.I.
    Director – 1
    Age 43
    Appointed 3 April, 2006
    Ms. Hurley is a Vice President at Citi Quilter. She has over nineteen years experience in wealth management. She previously worked with Goodbody Stockbrokers as a Senior Portfolio Manager and with Merrill Lynch International Bank Limited as Investment Director. She is a member of the Securities & Investment Institute (Ireland) and also of the Institute of Directors.

  • 11. Brian McConnell

    B.B.S.
    Director
    Age 62
    Appointed 3 April, 2006
    A career banker by profession, Mr.McConnell has comprehensive experience in the Financial Services Sector. He has served as Chief Executive of Permanent tsb and Ulster Investment Bank (Corporate Banking / Finance). Now retired, he has held directorships in several financial institutions including Irish Life and Permanent Plc and Ulster Bank Limited. He is a director of Postbank Ireland Limited and of a number of AXA Group companies.

  • 13. John Quinlivan

    B.Sc. (Mgt. & Law), M.Sc. (Spatial Planning), Dip. in Public Admin.
    Director – 3
    Age 70 Appointed 24 June, 2008; second term
    Mr. Quinlivan has had a lengthy career in local government, serving in senior positions in nine counties, including fifteen years as Louth County Manager. He served for five years as a member of the National Roads Authority and he also served as a member of the Local Government Management Services Board and the Local Government Computer Services Board and An Comhairle.

  • 15. Catherine Woods

    B.A. (Econ)
    Director – 3
    Age 46
    Appointed 4 February, 2008
    Ms. Woods has spent most of her career in London, concentrating on the financial sector. She has extensive experience of mergers and acquisitions and stockbroking from her seventeen years with JP Morgan as a Vice President. Her mandates included the recapitalisation of Lloyds’ of London Insurance market and the re-privatisation of Scandinavian banks. Since her return to Ireland, she has served on the Electronic Communications Appeals Panel from 2004 to 2007, opining on appeals against decisions made by ComReg.

Secretary

Michael Tyndall

Registered Office

General Post Office
O’Connell Street
Dublin 1

 

Auditor

KPMG, Chartered Accountants

Bankers

Bank of Ireland

Solicitors

Matheson Ormsby Prentice

Key to Board Committees

1. Audit and Security
2. Personnel
3. Remuneration

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  • 2. Patrick Compton

    Employee Director
    Age 52
    Appointed 1 November, 2008; fifth term
    Mr. Compton has worked in the postal service for the past thirty five years and his current position is that of Partnership Co-ordinator, based in Roscommon. He was a member of the national executive of the Communications Workers Union for twenty two years and its president in 1986. He is active in community development in his local area and he is a member of Arigna Leader Board and Roscommon County Development Board. He is a director of The Prize Bond Company Limited.

  • 4. Donal Connell

    C.Eng., F.I.E.I., B.E.
    Director – 2, 3
    Age 55
    Appointed 14 August, 2006
    Mr. Connell was appointed as Chief Executive on 14 August 2006. He began his career in the Department of Post and Telegraphs and has held senior management positions in Unitrode Ireland, 3Com Ireland and Maxtor Ireland where he was General Manager prior to joining An Post. He is a non-executive director of Xilinx Corporation’s European Board and of Postbank Ireland Limited. He is also Chairman of An Post National Lottery Company.

  • 6. Paddy Costello

    Employee Director
    Age 60
    Appointed 1 November, 2008
    Mr. Costello joined the Post Office as a Junior Postperson in 1964. He became a Postperson in 1966 and he has been employed in the Finglas Delivery Office, Dublin 11 for the last forty two years. Throughout his employment, he has represented members of the Communications Workers Union at Delivery Offices in Dublin. He has held various branch officer positions and he is currently serving as the Treasurer of the Dublin Postal Delivery Branch.

  • 8. Louise English

    B.Comm., F.C.A.
    Director – 1, 2
    Age 46
    Appointed 1 June, 2005
    An accountant by profession, Ms. English began her career with PriceWaterhouse and then joined IBI Corporate Finance. She held a number of positions there, including Director of Mergers & Acquisitions. A member of the Institute of Directors, she has served on the Boards of a number of public and private Irish companies including Bord na Móna plc and Sherry Fitzgerald plc. She is currently chairperson of Capital Radio Productions Limited (FM104) and a nonexecutive director of St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group Limited.

  • 10. James Hyland, B.Comm

    F.C.A., F.C.I.S., M.C.I.Arb., M.E.W.I.
    Director – 1
    Age 73
    Appointed 11 December, 2008; second term
    Mr. Hyland, a chartered accountant, is former Deputy Chief Executive of Golden Vale Group and was Group Chief Executive of Youghal Carpets plc. He is Managing Director of James Hyland & Company, Forensic Accountants, and a partner of Hyland Johnson Murray, Chartered Accountants. He is Chairman or director of a number of other companies including An Post National Lottery Company.

  • 12. Gerry O’Toole

    Employee Director – 2
    Age 46
    Appointed 1 November, 2008
    Mr. O’Toole started work in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in 1980 as a Junior Postman and the following year he was appointed as a Postperson. In 1989, he was promoted to the position of Clerical Officer and worked in the Financial Services area until 1998 when he moved to the IT Unit where he is currently a Technical Support Specialist in IT Network Support. He has served on a number of branch committees for different unions over the years.

  • 14. Alan Sloane

    Postmaster Director
    Age 51
    Appointed 1 January, 2007; third term
    Mr. Sloane has worked in the family grocery and post office business since 1976. He was appointed postmaster of Loch Gowna post office, Co. Cavan in 1979. He is also Managing Director of J.A.S. Limited, a security counter and furniture manufacturing business, which he established in 1985.