Enterprise Ireland
Annual Report and Accounts 2004

Membership of the Board and Committees

• Homepage
• Chairman's Statement
• Chief Executive Officer's Report

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• Section 1
  Achieving Export Sales
• Section 2
  Investing in Research and Innovation
• Section 3
  Competing Through Productivity
• Section 4
  Starting Up and Scaling Up
• Section 5
  Driving Regional Enterprise

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• Membership of the Board & Committees
• Organisation Structure
• Statutory and Other Notices
• Financial Statements
• Office Network

as at 1 March 2005

Enterprise Ireland Board

(from left to right)

1. Heather Ann McSharry
   Country Manager
   Boots Healthcare
2. Frank Ryan
   Chief Executive Officer
   Enterprise Ireland
3. Margaret Daly
   Environmental Consultant
4. Gerard O’Malley
   Managing Director
   Gerard O’Malley & Associates Intersearch
5. Veronica Perdisatt
   Chairperson
   The Kilkenny Group
6. Kieran McGowan
   Company Director
7. Elaine Farrell
   Executive Secretary
   Irish Farmers Association
8. Brian Kearney
   Past President
   Institution of Engineers of Ireland
9. Gus Fitzpatrick
   Company Director
10. John Connolly
    Marketing Manager
    SWS Group
11. Lorraine Benson
    Principal Officer
    Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
12. Pat Molloy (Chairman)
    Company Director

The following member retired from the Enterprise Ireland Board in 2004/2005: Barry O’Halloran, Company Director.

The Board is responsible for setting the broad policies of the organisation and delegates to management and sub-committees the responsibility for their implementation. In its own activities and in its use of committees the Board operates towards best private sector corporate governance principles. The Enterprise Ireland Board and its relevant committees have the authority to purchase shares (ordinary and preference) in companies. The Board has statutory authority to approve funding support up to the levels set out in the Industrial Development Act 1986, as amended, and to make recommendations to Government on funding support above these levels. In accordance with the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies, Board members are required to register their interests in other undertakings with the Secretary and do not participate in decisions nor receive any documentation in relation to these undertakings and others where conflict of interest may arise.

Mary Gallagher, Secretary to the Board