Board Directors

ALAN DUKES
was appointed Chairman in June 2010 having initially joined the Board in December 2008. He is a Director and Public Affairs Consultant of Wilson Hartnell Public Relations Limited. He has served as Minister for various portfolios including Finance and Justice and is a former leader of Fine Gael. He was Director General of the Institute of European Affairs from 2003 to 2007.

MIKE AYNSLEY
joined the bank as Chief Executive Officer in September 2009. Mr. Aynsley has over 30 years industry and consulting experience in banking and in financial services in Australia, New Zealand, the Asia Pacific Region and the United Kingdom. Mr. Aynsley has been working on a number of high-level projects since January 2006, in the areas of financial sector development, risk management, liquidity management and governance risk assessment. Previously, he held senior positions, including Chief Risk Officer in New Zealand for ANZ Bank and National Bank of New Zealand. Prior to this he was a Global Partner, Banking and Financial Services with Deloitte Consulting for five years. He was General Manager - Global Markets, Global Wholesale Financial Services for National Australia Bank from the early nineties, having held senior management positions with Security Pacific National Bank from the early eighties in Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Macquarie University, which he obtained in 2007.

MAURICE KEANE
who joined the Board on 21 January 2009, is a former Group Chief Executive and a former member of the Court of Directors of Bank of Ireland. He is a Director of Axis Capital Holdings Limited and is also a member of the National Pension Reserve Fund Commission. He is a former Chairman of BUPA Ireland Limited and Bristol & West plc and a former Director of DCC plc.

GARY KENNEDY
was appointed to the Board on 24 May 2010. He is a Director of Elan Corporation plc, Greencore Group plc and Friends First General Insurance Company Limited. He is also a Director of a number of private companies. Previously, he was Group Director, Finance and Enterprise Technology at Allied Irish Banks plc and was a member of its main board. Prior to that he was group vice president at Nortel Networks Europe after starting his management career at Deloitte & Touche. He served on the board of the Industrial Development Authority of Ireland for 10 years and also on the board of Calyx Group plc.

NOEL CAWLEY
was appointed to the Board on 24 May 2010. He is Chairman of Teagasc (the Agricultural and Food Development Authority). He is a Director of An Bord Bia and One51 plc. He was previously Chief Executive of the Irish Dairy Board and Chairman of the Irish Horse Board. 

AIDAN EAMES
was appointed to the Board on 24 May 2010. He is a commercial lawyer and Managing Partner of Eames Solicitors, Dublin. He is a Director of Bord Gáis Éireann and is Chairman of their Risk Committee.  He is also a member of the Department of Foreign Affairs Independent Audit Committee. He has served as Chairman and Board Member of a number of private and state enterprises and acts as advisor to leading commercial and technology companies. 

OLIVER ELLINGHAM
was appointed to the Board on 14 October 2011. He is a Chartered Accountant and a former Head of Corporate Finance (Europe) at BNP Paribas and a senior executive within BNP Paribas UK. He currently holds non-executive directorships in a number of companies including Vislink plc and the Naafi Pension Fund and he is also Chairman and owner of Woking Storage Solutions.

He previously also held senior management roles within Charterhouse Bank (now part of the HSBC group) and Robert Fleming (now part of the J P Morgan group).

ROGER McGREAL

was appointed to the Board on 15 November 2011. He is a former executive director of Woodchester Investments plc where his responsibilities included banking, credit and risk. Previously, he held senior management roles in the Corporate Banking division of Bank of Ireland and the Investment Bank of Ireland where he was Associate Director of Corporate Lending.

He was appointed as a non-executive director of Irish Nationwide Building Society in September 2009. He holds non-executive directorships in various private companies and he is also on the board of a number of companies established in the International Financial Services Centre in Dublin.