Board of Directors
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Kerry Group Annual Report 2020 85 Board of Directors Chairman & Executive Directors Mr. Philip Toomey (67) Mr. Edmond Scanlon (47) Ms. Marguerite Larkin (49) Mr. Gerry Behan (56) Chairman of the Board Executive Director Executive Director Executive Director Philip has extensive business Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer President and CEO leadership and international Edmond is a highly Marguerite brings extensive Kerry Taste & Nutrition experience following an experienced leader in the financial knowledge and risk Gerry has over 30 years' executive career in the global food and beverage management expertise as well experience in the Group and financial services industry industry having spent almost as being a highly experienced has extensive knowledge practice at Accenture. 20 years in senior roles business leader. of the global food and Philip brings financial and across the Group. Edmond beverage industry. operational expertise as well brings a strategic mindset Marguerite has over 25 years as significant board level to drive Group performance international experience He has a wealth of business experience. and growth as well as having served as lead client leadership experience, significant financial and partner at Deloitte Ireland for financial and operational Philip was formerly Global operational expertise. a number of multinationals expertise and brings a Chief Operating Officer for operating in a broad range strategic mindset in the the financial services industry Edmond joined Kerry’s of industries including food advancement of Kerry’s practice at Accenture and also graduate programme and beverage, pharma and leading taste and nutrition a member of the Accenture in Ireland in 1996. Over technology. capabilities and unique Global Leadership Council. his career he has held positioning. leadership roles in the During her career with He is a Fellow of Chartered Group’s Flavours and Deloitte, Marguerite served Gerry joined Kerry’s Accountants Ireland. Applied Health and Nutrition as a senior partner and held graduate programme in a number of leadership roles Philip was appointed businesses as well as 1986 and has held a number within Deloitte Ireland. Chairman of the Board in heading up the Group’s of senior financial and May 2018 and has served as a activities in China and the Marguerite is a Fellow of business management roles, Director for nine years. He is Asia Pacific region. Chartered Accountants primarily in the Americas Chairman of the Governance, region, including regional Edmond was appointed Ireland and holds a Bachelor Nomination and Sustainability Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director and Group of Commerce degree and Committee having previously regional Chief Executive Chief Executive Officer in Masters in Accountancy. served as Senior Independent Officer. October 2017. Marguerite was appointed Director and Chairman of the He was appointed President Audit Committee. Appointed: 1 October 2017 Executive Director and Group Chief Financial Officer in and Chief Executive Officer Appointed: 20 February 2012 and as September 2018. of Kerry’s Global Taste & Chairman 3 May 2018 Nutrition business in 2011. Committee Membership Appointed: 30 September 2018 Gerry has served as an N Executive Director on the Board for 13 years. Appointed: 13 May 2008 Committee Membership Key A Audit Committee N Governance, Nomination and Sustainability Committee R Remuneration Committee Indicates Committee Chair 86 Kerry Group Annual Report 2020 DIRECTORS‘ REPORT Board of Directors Non-Executive Directors Dr. Hugh Brady (61) Mr. Gerard Culligan (46) Independent Non-Executive Director Independent Non-Executive Director Hugh’s biomedical research and academic Gerard has considerable knowledge of the background brings an invaluable perspective food industry, in particular the dairy and to the Board particularly in the areas of health agribusiness sectors, as well as many years and wellbeing. He also brings a broad range of business management experience. He brings international and leadership experience. insights to the Board that are reflective of the Hugh is currently President and Vice Chancellor Group’s heritage and the dairy community that of the University of Bristol in the UK, a position he represents. he has held since 2015. Gerard operates his own business in the Hugh had a successful career as a physician and agribusiness sector and is a director and biomedical research scientist in the US where co-owner of two private companies in the he served on the faculty of Harvard Medical marine industry. School for almost a decade prior to returning Appointed: 1 June 2017 to his alma mater as Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics in University College Dublin (UCD). He was previously President of UCD from 2004 to 2013. He is a non-Executive Director on the Board of ICON plc where he also serves on the Audit Committee. Hugh joined both the Audit and Governance, Nomination and Sustainability Committees in 2015. Appointed: 24 February 2014 Committee Membership A N Committee Membership Key A Audit Committee N Governance, Nomination and Sustainability Committee R Remuneration Committee Indicates Committee Chair Dr. Karin Dorrepaal (59) Ms. Joan Garahy (58) Independent Non-Executive Director Senior Independent Non-Executive Director Karin is an experienced business leader who Joan has significant financial services and also brings extensive pharmaceutical market investment experience having spent over 31 knowledge. She has wide ranging experience years advising on and managing investment as a non-Executive Director on an international funds. Joan is also an experienced non- basis. Executive Director and has particular expertise During her career she was an Executive in financial and remuneration matters. Director on the Board of Schering AG in Berlin Joan’s executive career included roles as a with responsibility for the Diagnostic Imaging personal financial planner, equity analyst, business as well as worldwide manufacturing fund manager and head of research and she and procurement and was a partner at the held leadership roles in the investment and NY and Amsterdam office of an international pensions industry including with ClearView consultancy firm (formerly known as Booz Investments & Pensions, the National Treasury Allen & Hamilton) where she specialised in the Management Agency (Ireland), Hibernian pharmaceutical industry. Investment Managers and Goodbody Karin holds a Ph.D. and an MBA. Stockbrokers. She is currently a non-Executive Director on Joan is currently non-Executive Director at the Boards of Gerresheimer AG, Paion AG (vice ICON plc and Irish Residential Properties REIT Chairperson) and Almirall S.A. Karin is also a plc. She is also a director of IPB Insurance CLG director of a number of private companies. and a number of private companies. Karin joined the Remuneration Committee In February 2012, Joan was appointed in January 2015 and the Governance, Chairperson of the Remuneration Committee Nomination and Sustainability Committee and joined the Audit Committee on the same in December 2015. date. She was appointed Senior Independent Director on 3 May 2018. Appointed: 1 January 2015 Appointed: 11 January 2012 and as Senior N Committee Membership R Independent Director 3 May 2018. Committee Membership R A Kerry Group Annual Report 2020 87 Ms. Emer Gilvarry (63) Mr. Tom Moran (65) Mr. Con Murphy (56) Independent Non-Executive Director Independent Non-Executive Director Independent Non-Executive Director Emer is a highly experienced professional who Tom is an experienced leader who brings Con has a deep knowledge of the food brings legal, business and corporate governance extensive knowledge of the food and agriculture industry, in particular the dairy and expertise to the Board. industries combined with a broad range of agribusiness sectors. He brings insights to international diplomacy skills. He is also a the Board that are reflective of the Group’s Emer is a former senior partner of law firm member of a number of boards and committees. heritage and the dairy community that he Mason Hayes and Curran where she served as represents. Head of the Litigation group from 2001 to 2008, Tom had a long and distinguished career within the Irish Public Sector where he served Con operates his own business in the Managing Partner from 2008 to 2014 and Chair as Secretary General of the Irish Department agribusiness sector and is a member of from 2014 to 2017. of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and also the Board of a small private company. He Emer is currently the Senior Independent held a number of international policy and was previously the Chairman of the Irish Director at Greencoat Renewables plc. She is also international trade negotiation leadership roles. Montbeliarde Cattle Society. a director of a number of private companies. Tom is currently a Board member of An Bord Appointed: 1 June 2017 She previously served as a non-Executive Bia, the Irish Food Board, and chairs its Dairy Director of Aer Lingus plc from 2014 to 2015 and Subsidiary Board, a member of the Irish as a Council Member of The Economic and Social Government AgriFood 2030 Strategy Group Research Institute from 2014 to 2020. and Vice Chair of the Origin Green Global Sustainability Council. He is also Chairman of Emer joined the Audit Committee in the Irish Government Public Appointments November 2020. Service. Tom is a registered Chartered Director. Appointed: 1 November 2020 Tom joined the Remuneration Committee Committee Membership A in February