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CENTENNIAL YEAR
Alumnishowcase
In the second part of our Centennial showcase, we look at some of those UCD business alumni
who have become leading figures in Ireland’s business and public life
Alan Ahearne (DipEconSc 90, propertyandinvestmentmanagement.Hewaspreviouslyheadof
MEconSc91)NUIGalwaylecturerin property with AIB Investment Managers. In 2001, he served as
economicsDrAlanAhearneiscurrently presidentoftheSocietyofCharteredSurveyorsinIreland.
onleave ofabsence asspecialadvisorto
MinisterforFinanceBrianLenihanTD. Joan Burton (BComm 70) Joan
BeforejoiningNUIGalwayin2005,he Burton, TD, was appointed deputy
was a senior economist in the Federal leader of the Labour party in 2007 and
ReserveinWashington.Anexpertonthe is also the party’s spokesperson on
impact of property booms and crashes, finance. The Dublin West TD, who was
hehasbeenaregularmediacommentatoroverrecentyears. first elected to the Dáil in 1992, has
beenMinisterofStateforSocialWelfare
Roy Barrett (BCL 85, MBS 89) Roy Barrett is managing and Minister of State for Justice and
director of Goodbody Stockbrokers. He joined the company in Foreign Affairs. She is a fellow of the
1995 as head of equities and became managing director a year InstituteofCharteredAccountants.
later.HewaspreviouslyheadofinternationalequitiesatNCB,
andalsoworkedintheUKatSGWarburgandParibas. DermotByrne(MBA82) DermotByrnewasappointedchief
executive of EirGrid in July 2005. Prior to this, he was head of
Aloysius Blair (BComm 25) RIPAloysiusBlairbeganhis ESBNetworks.Hepreviouslyworkedatseniormanagementlevel
careerintheCivilServicein1911,whereheworkeduntilretiringas in the electricity industry in Ireland and abroad, including
registraroftheLandCommissionin1956.Throughouthiscareer Bahrain.HeisafellowofEngineersIrelandandamemberofthe
hestudiedandtaughtarangeofbusiness-relatedsubjectsatnight. internationalelectricitybodyCIGRE.
Hefoughtfortheestablishmentofeveningdegreecourses,which
was granted in 1917. From 1931, he lectured in economics and RoryByrne(BComm80)RoryByrnehasbeenchiefexecu-
commerceatUCDatnight. tive of Total Produce since the end of 2006. Before that he was
managingdirectorofFyffesGeneralProducedivision.Hehelda
DeclanBourke(MBA08)In2007,DeclanBourkesetupthe numberofseniorpositionsinFyffes,whichhejoinedin1988,hav-
Irish office of CMC Markets, which provides CFDs to retail ingpreviouslyworkedatKPMG.
investors.Previously,hespent11yearsbasedinTokyo,wherehe
wasmanagingdirectorofIrish-ownedNichiai.Healsosatonthe AidanCotter(MEconSc78)AidanCotterhasbeenCEOof
board of the Japan Ireland Economic Association (JIEA) and Bord Bia since 2004, having previously been director of opera-
workedwithTheIrelandFundofJapan. tionsintheorganisationand,beforethat,itsEuropeandirector,
basedinLondonandDusseldorf.
Fergus Brennan (BComm 68) A chartered accountant,
FergusBrennanjoinedAirmotiveIreland(laterLufthansaTechnik Fionnuala Croke (MBA 02) Fionnuala Croke was
AirmotiveIreland)asfinancialcontrollerin1980,beforebecoming appointedkeeperandheadcuratorintheNationalGalleryof
finance director in 1986 and managing director in 2003. He Ireland in 2008. She began working at the gallery in 1987 as
retiredasMDin2008butremainsanon-executivedirectoronthe curator of French paintings after completing her master’s
boardsofLufthansaTechnik’sIrishcompanies. degreeandwasappointedheadofthenewexhibitionsdepart-
mentin2000.
Helen Brophy (MBS 93) Helen
Brophy was appointed CEO of the ParaicCurtis(BComm88,DipPrAcc89)ParaicCurtis
National Dairy Council in 2007, having has been managing director of Boston Scientific Ireland
previously been market development in Galway since 2007. Having joined the company in 1996,
manager at Bord Iascaigh Mhara for his roles have included director of finance and director of
sevenyears.Sheiscurrentlyoverseeinga operations. He previously worked with PwC and Fanuc
five-year strategic development plan for Robotics. He is currently on the board of the Irish Medical
theNDC. DevicesAssociation(IMDA).
John Bruder (MBA 86) John Bruder, managing director Michael Deeny (BComm 88, MBA 02) MichaelDeeny
of Treasury Holdings Ireland, has over 25 years experience in has been managing director of Depfa ACS Bank since 2004.
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