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AER LINGUS GROUP PLC - ANNUAL REPORT 2008
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Board of Directors
Colm Barrington (Chairman) (7)(8)(9)
Colm Barrington (63) was appointed to the Board
on 19 September 2008 and appointed as Chairman
on 3 October 2008. Following Mr Dermot Mannion’s
resignation from the role of Chief Executive and
from the Board on 6 April 2009, Mr Barrington has
assumed executive responsibility for an interim period
until the appointment of a new Chief Executive. He
is Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Babcock
and Brown Air 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.
Sean Coyle
Chief Financial Officer and Head
of Short Haul Operations
Sean Coyle (36) is a chartered accountant
and graduate of Management Science from
Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed
Chief Financial Officer and a member of
the Board in August 2008. After initially
working with KPMG Dublin, he joined Ryanair
Holdings plc in 1998 where he held a number
of senior positions including Head of Investor
Relations, Commercial Director (Ryanair.com),
and Director of Scheduled Revenue where he
was centrally involved in yield and capacity
management, schedule planning, network
strategy and airport contract negotiations.
David Begg (8)(10)(12)
David Begg (59), was appointed to the Board on 29
January 2008. Mr. Begg became General Secretary
of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in 2001. For
five years prior to that he was Chief Executive of
Concern Worldwide, an international humanitarian
organisation working in 27 countries and with offices
in Dublin, London, Belfast, New York and Chicago.
He is also a Director of the Central Bank (since 1995),
a Governor of the Irish Times Trust, member of the
ESRI Council, a member of the National Economic
and Social Council (NESC), and of the Advisory Board
of Development Co-operation Ireland. He also sits on
the Executive Committee of the European Trade Union
Confederation (ETUC).
Thomas Corcoran (7)(10)
Thomas Corcoran (64), was appointed to the Board
on 4 May 2007. Mr. Corcoran 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 firm. He has held senior
executive management positions at General Electric
and Lockheed Martin. Mr. Corcoran is a member on
the Boards of Directors of ARINC Incorporated (A
Carlyle Company), L-3 Communications Corporation,
REMEC Incorporated, LaBarge Incorporated and
Serco Group Limited. 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 (4)(6)
Laurence Crowley (72) 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 Pay and Shop Limited (trading
as Realex Payments). He is also a member of the Board of
the Economic and Social Research Institute, 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 Smurfit 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.
Ivor Fitzpatrick (1)(7)
Ivor Fitzpatrick (53), was appointed to the
Board on 5 June 2002. He is a practising
solicitor and the founding partner of Ivor
Fitzpatrick & Co. Solicitors. Mr Fitzpatrick has
extensive experience in the legal profession
and is also involved in various commercial
and business activities.