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Our Board of Directors carry the full governance responsibility for the organisation.
By law, they have individual and joint responsibility for what happens within our Foundation. This means that if our Foundation does not meet its legal duties, the Board is responsible both as individuals and together as a board, committee, council or other core group (referred to in this Code as the ‘board’).
No Director receives any payment for their contribution or support for our Foundation.
Margaret Considine is highly experienced and award winning Management Consultant who works with some of the major companies in Ireland and Europe assisting them in strategy formulation and implementation, management and leadership development, negotiations, coaching, mediations & people development. Margaret has extensive experience in both private & public sector clients and works nationally and internationally
Margaret has built a career on commercial acumen and has held a number of national and international senior posts to directorship level in consulting, service and manufacturing organisations. Margaret has worked extensively across the UK, Europe and the USA and continues to actively work in Europe, Asia pacific, Middle East and North America. Margaret’s experience stretches across a number of industry sectors including I.T., recruitment, distribution, manufacturing, consultancy, banking, fast food, the drinks industry, education, health and tourism sectors.
Margaret is active in the world of academia and holds the post of Associate Faculty Member, designing, programme directing, leading or contributing on programmes since 1996, including University of Dublin Trinity College Masters programmes. Margaret also has held associate faculty posts in RCPI, Napier University in Scotland and Massey University in New Zealand.
Margaret is the author of six published books.
Liam has spent over 30 years working in the Corporate Recovery field. Prior to joining Smith & Williamson, Liam spent 27 years with BDO including 5 years (1990 -1995) as Managing Partner. From 1997 to 2009, Liam was Partner in Charge of BDO's Corporate Recovery Unit. From March 2010 to January 2016, he was Head of Restructuring and Recovery Department.
As well as serving on the Board of TUHF Liam is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA) and a Member of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners (ISIP). He has worked with the hospital board for more than six years and counts healthcare, logistics and construction amongst his areas of expertise.
Malcolm is founding partner and former CEO of Sedgwick in Ireland now part of the Global Sedgwick Organisation. A career insurance professional and chartered Loss Adjuster, Malcolm has for many years been involved in varying strategic Management/Leadership roles in Ireland, the UK and Internationally. He has extensive experience of and in the wider Insurance services market and his experience extends to areas such as organisational transformation and change, strategic planning, growth and diversification.
A graduate of Leadership for Growth Programme at Stanford University Graduate School
and Former President & Chairman of The Board of The Insurance Institute of Ireland, Malcolm enjoys mentoring and coaching individuals and corporate teams.
A seasoned Chartered Director and business leader, John has been instrumental in driving market development and corporate governance for international enterprises for many years. He is Founder Director of Beyonder.ie, bringing extensive experience in mentoring SMEs across various sectors, fostering commercial growth, supporting organizational change, and enhancing enterprise value. He previously built and led his own companies through to value realisation and has helped other Founders / Executive Leaders to do the same.
John currently has several non-executive Board roles across the Private and Voluntary sectors, ranging from strategic advisor through to full Board Chairman and Director. As a technology-focused advisor, he is particularly interested in the scalability and capacity of companies to grow beyond their incumbent markets, from early stage through to mature enterprise, and has a keen interest in the start-up ecosystem to support the development of new ideas into viable Businesses. He is an avid Arts and Sports consumer, a world traveller and, importantly, a husband, father and grandfather!
Professor Seamas Donnelly is a graduate of University College Galway (UCG) and completed his respiratory and general medicine training at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. As Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh he successfully competed for a Welcome Trust Advanced Fellowship which enabled him to work at the Picower Institute in New York, an internationally renowned research centre affiliated with Rockefeller University.
Professor Donnelly returned to UCD and St Vincent’s University Hospital in 2001. As Head of Medicine at St Vincent’s University Hospital he was responsible for the rolling out of the new modular medical curriculum on campus. He is recognised as an international leader in translational medicine and his research epitomizes classical bench to bedside on an international stage. The work of his research group is leading to novel therapies in respiratory disease, particularly asthma, COPD and sarcoidosis.
He was one of the first clinicians to be awarded a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Principal Investigator Programme grant award which was recently renewed for a further five years. This work has focused on the development of novel small molecular-weight anti-inflammatory agents targeting chronic inflammatory diseases particularly pertaining to the lung. He is a co-applicant on the recently awarded Wellcome Trust/HRB Dublin Clinical Research Facility.
In 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Professorship by the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh is currently ranked among the top 20 universities in the world and following the recent UK Research Assessment Exercise, has been ranked number one with regards to medical research. The citation from Edinburgh University recognised Professor Donnelly as an international leader in medical research.
In 2013 he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Journal of Medicine (QJM), an international medical journal published by Oxford University Press (OUP).