DAA Corporate

Pádraig Ó Ríordáin was appointed Chairman in January 2012. Pádraig is a Corporate Partner in Arthur Cox, the leading Irish law firm, where he served as managing partner from 2003 to 2011. In 2009, he was named European Managing Partner of the Year and in 2012 was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Managing Partners’ Forum. He studied law in the National University of Ireland and Harvard Law School and has practised in New York and Dublin. He is a non-executive director of Paddy Power and of TVC Holdings. Pádraig serves as Chair of the Board Nomination and Remuneration Committee and the Board Pensions Sub Committee.

Kevin Toland became Chief Executive of DAA in January 2013. Prior to joining the company, Toland was Chief Executive and President of Glanbia USA & Global Nutritionals, based in Chicago, Illinois. Previous roles at Glanbia, which he joined in 1999, included Group Development Director, Chief Executive of Consumer Foods and Director of Strategy and Marketing. Before joining Glanbia, he held a number of senior management positions with Coca-Cola Bottlers in Russia and with Grand Metropolitan in Ireland and Central Europe. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants and holds a Diploma in Applied Finance from the Irish Management Institute.

Niall Greene was appointed to the Board in July 2012.  His career in aviation started in Aer Lingus and encompassed senior positions in GPA Group and GECAS.  He was chair of the Youth Employment Agency and of the Council of AnCO in the 1980s. He is a member of the Board of the Institute of International and European Affairs and serves on the boards of a number of aviation finance related companies and of not-for-profit organisations in the Limerick area.  He holds LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Limerick.

Patricia King was appointed to the Board in July 2012. She is Vice President of the trade union SIPTU and has served as a board member of the RTE Authority and the National Roads Authority.

John Lynch was appointed to the Board in February 2012. He heads the Europe and African marketing operations at aircraft leasing company BBAM and is managing director at its Zurich office. He was part of the management team at BBAM which successfully completed an MBO of Babcock & Brown’s aircraft leasing business in 2010. Before joining BBAM, he spent 12 years in various senior executive positions at Babcock & Brown. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he holds an MBA from University College Dublin.

Mary McCabe was originally appointed to the Board in December 2008 and reappointed in November 2009 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts, 1977 to 2001. Mary joined the company in 1998 and works in the Cleaning Department. She is a Divisional Committee member of the Utilities and Construction Section of SIPTU and for over 10 years has represented the Cleaning Department at local and branch level.

Colm McCarthy was appointed to the Board in February 2012. He is a lecturer in economics at University College Dublin. He previously worked at the Central Bank, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and with DKM Economic Consultants. He chaired the Irish government’s Review Group on State Assets and Liabilities and the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes. He is a graduate of University College Dublin and the University of Essex.

Barry Nevin was originally appointed to the Board in March 2005 and reappointed in November 2009 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts, 1977 to 2001. Barry joined the company in 1990 and works in the Airport Police/Fire Service. He is a member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Worker Directors Group and the Dublin Airport Authority Group of Unions. Barry holds a BA in Legal Studies.

Paul Schütz was appointed to the Board in July 2012. He is a former Chief Executive of Aer Arann and a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the airline industry holding senior finance and general management roles with a number of different companies.

Conor Swords was appointed to the Board in January 2013 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts, 1977 to 2001. Conor joined the company in 1998 and has worked in the Retail Department, Terminal Services and the Airside Operations Department. He is a member of SIPTU and serves on the Aviation Divisional Committee and the Irish Congress of Trade Union Worker Directors Group. He is currently a graduate in Business Studies specialising in Organisational Change and Development.

Gerry Walsh was originally appointed to the Board in November 2008 and reappointed in February 2012. He is an independent business advisor who provides strategic support to the boards and senior management teams of a number of Irish and international companies. As Chief Executive of Bord Gáis from 2000 to 2007 he led the transition of the company to an all-Ireland energy company providing both gas and electricity to customers throughout the island of Ireland. He is an engineering graduate of UCC.