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Annual Report 2010
Board of Directors Aer Lingus Group Plc
Colm Barrington
(Chairman)
Colm Barrington was appointed to the Board on 19 September
2008 and appointed as Chairman on 3 October 2008. He is Chief
Executive Offi cer and a director of Fly Leasing Limited, the NYSE
listed, Irish based, aircraft leasing company. He was formerly
Managing Director of Babcock and Brown in Dublin from 1994
to 2007. Prior to that he held a number of senior executive
management positions in GPA Group Plc from 1979 to 1993 and
was appointed President of GE Capital Aviation Services Limited
following its acquisition of GPA Group Plc. He has represented
Ireland in international yacht racing and in 2007, he completed
the Barrington Report on the Irish Private Health Insurance
Industry for the Minister for Health and Children.
Christoph Mueller
(Chief Executive Offi cer)
Christoph Mueller was appointed Chief Executive Offi cer
and a member of the Board in September 2009. He has
extensive experience within the aviation industry, having held
senior positions in Daimler Benz Aerospace, Lufthansa AG, the
Sabena Group, DHL and Deutsche Post AG, prior to his roles at
TUI Travel plc. He served as the Chief Financial Offi cer of DHL
Worldwide from 2002 to 2004 and became a member of the
Executive Committee of Deutsche Post AG in 2004. In January
2006, Christoph joined the Executive Committee of TUI AG
with responsibility for their fl ight division. In 2007, TUI AG
merged its travel division with First Choice Holidays PLC to form
TUI Travel plc, a leading international travel group listed on the
London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE 100. He served
as Executive Director, Aviation, at TUI Travel plc, where he
managed a total of seven separate airlines, a fl eet of 160
short-haul and long-haul aircraft and a team of 11,000
employees.
Andrew Macfarlane
(Chief Financial Offi cer)
Andrew Macfarlane was appointed Chief Financial Offi cer and a
member of the Board on 3 October 2010. He is a Fellow of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants and holds an MA in Economics
from Selwyn College, Cambridge. Andrew originally joined Aer
Lingus as Interim Chief Financial Offi cer on 21 December
2009. Prior to his appointment he most recently served as
Chief Financial Offi cer of Rentokil Initial plc and his career has
covered the leisure, business services, real estate and accounting
sectors. His early career was with Ernst & Young, where he spent
12 years, reaching the position of Corporate Finance Partner in
1987. In addition he has held the position of Chief Financial
Offi cer at Land Securities Group plc and Holiday Inn.
David Begg
David Begg was appointed as a non-executive director
effective on 28 January 2011. Prior to that he served as an
ESOT nominee on the Board since January 2008. He has been
General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions since
2001. For fi ve years prior to that he was Chief Executive of
Concern Worldwide, an international humanitarian organisation
working in 27 countries and with offi ces in Dublin, London,
Belfast, New York and Chicago. He is also a governor of the
Irish Times Trust and a member of the National Economic and
Social Council. He also sits on the Executive Committee of the
European Trade Union Confederation.
Montie Brewer
Montie Brewer was appointed to the Board on 25 January
2010. He is an airline veteran and a recognised industry
innovator in airline pricing, sales and distribution strategies.
Most recently he was President and CEO of Air Canada. He is
currently a Non-executive Director of Allegiant Travel Company,
recognised as one of North America’s most innovative airline
and travel groups. He holds a BA in Business Administration &
Transportation Management from Michigan State University.
Leslie Buckley
Leslie Buckley was appointed to the Board on 18 May 2009.
He is a founding director of Digicel a telecommunications
group with over nine million subscribers and operations across
the Caribbean, Central America and South Pacifi c. Previously,
Leslie was involved in the start-up of Esat Telecom group plc
and Esat Digifone Limited and held the position of acting
Chief Operating Offi cer of Esat Telecom during 1996 and 1997.
He established his own consultancy business in 1990 and was
retained on a number of key public and private sector
appointments. He is currently the Chairman of Saongroup.com
and Business Recovery Services Limited. He is also a director
of the Irish Medical Organisation Services Limited. In January
2009 Leslie established Haven, a charitable foundation
dedicated to building and up-grading houses for the poorest
of the poor, initially in Haiti, through long-term partnership
programmes with communities and an annual Volunteer based
“Build-It-Week”. In March 2009 Leslie was also was appointed
to the Board of Independent News & Media PLC.
Thomas Corcoran
Thomas Corcoran was appointed to the Board on 4 May 2007. He
has extensive and in-depth experience in the aviation industry
worldwide. He is currently a Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Group
and President of Corcoran Enterprises LLC, a management
consultancy fi rm. He has held senior executive management
positions at General Electric and Lockheed Martin. Tom is a
member on the Boards of Directors of ARINC Incorporated
(A Carlyle Company), L-3 Communications Corporation, REMEC
Incorporated, LaBarge Incorporated and Serco Plc. He is also a
Director of Aircraft Management Technologies, a privately held
Irish company. He is active in the American Ireland Fund where
he is a Director. He is a graduate of Stevens Institute of
Technology where he is a Trustee and holds an honorary PhD.
Laurence Crowley
Laurence Crowley was appointed to the Board on 9 January
2009 and is the Senior Independent Director on the Board.
He is Chairman of ‘Gaisce – The President’s Award’, the Gate
Theatre, The Middletown Centre for Autism, Ecocem Limited
and Realex Payments. He is also a member of the Board of
the Economic and Social Research Institute, An Bord Gáis,
the Advisory Board of the US-Ireland Alliance and a number
of other companies. He previously served as Governor of the
Bank of Ireland (where he completed his term in 2005) and
as Executive Chairman of the Michael Smurfi t Graduate School
of Business at University College Dublin. He is also a past
director of Elan Corporation. Previously, he was a partner in
KPMG Stokes Kennedy Crowley Chartered Accountants, where
he specialised in corporate restructuring and insolvency.
Laurence holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University
College Dublin and is Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in Ireland. In 2004, he was conferred with an
honorary Doctorate in Laws by the National University of
Ireland. In 2009 he was awarded an Honorary CBE by Queen
Elizabeth II for services to UK-Irish relations.
Mella Frewen
Mella Frewen was appointed to the Board on 1 January 2011.
She is Director General of the Confederation of the Food and
Drink Industries of the EU (CIAA) based in Brussels and has
worked in the agri-food sector in Europe for over 20 years. She
has Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from the National
University of Ireland and completed a post-graduate course in
marine biology at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. She also
holds diploma in International Operations Management from
INSEAD
Danuta Gray
Danuta Gray was appointed to the Board on 25 August 2006.
Most recently Danuta was Chief Executive of O2 Ireland,
a position she held since 2001. She is a graduate of the
University of Leeds. She is a member of the O2 Group Board.
She is also a Director of Irish Life & Permanent plc and a
member of the IMI Council.
Francis Hackett
Francis Hackett was appointed to the Board on 9 February
2006. Francis is a solicitor of over twenty years standing
and is currently a consultant at Eversheds O’Donnell Sweeney,
Solicitors. He has extensive experience in commercial law,
corporate law, regulatory, telecommunications and information
technology law.
Colin Hunt
Dr Colin Hunt was appointed to the Board on 31 January 2008.
Colin is a Managing Director at Macquarie Capital and has
responsibility for the fi rm’s corporate advisory activities
in Ireland. Previously he served as Special Adviser to the
Ministers for Finance and Transport of Ireland. An economist
by profession, he was Research Director and Chief Economist
at Goodbody Stockbrokers, Head of Trading Research at Bank
of Ireland Group Treasury and a country risk analyst at
NatWest. He is a graduate of University College Cork and
Trinity College Dublin.
Thomas Moran
Thomas Moran was appointed to the Board on 25 August 2006.
Tom has served as Chairman of the Board of Mutual of America
Life Insurance Company since June 2005 and has served as
its President and Chief Executive Offi cer since October 1994.
He has participated in its growth from a small retirement
association to a mutual life insurance company. Tom is a
graduate of Manhattan College and has extensive business
experience and is a member of the Taoiseach’s Economic
Advisory Board, as well as the Boards of the Irish Chamber of
Commerce in the USA and the Ireland-United States Council
for Commerce and Industry, Inc.
Nicola Shaw
Nicola Shaw was appointed to the Board on 25 January 2010.
Most recently, Nicola served as Director, Bus – UK, Ireland
and Germany for FirstGroup plc, the world’s leading transport
company operating in Europe and North America, and
transporting approximately 2.5 billion passengers a year. She
previously worked in senior positions in both the UK Strategic
Rail Authority and the Offi ce of the Rail Regulator. She was
also a transport consultant with Bechtel and Halcrow Fox and
holds a BA in Modern History and Economics from Oxford
University and an MSc in Transport from MIT.
Board of Directors