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Blackrock benefits from a proactive, highly committed and experienced Board of Directors which has a wide range of talents and skills.
is also Chairman of Total Produce plc. He previously held the role of chairman of Fyffes where he was also involved in the company's property activities. He is a director of a number of other companies.
graduated in estate management in the UK in 1983. He worked in general practice as an estate agent and valuer until he joined the Dee Corporation plc in 1987, where he was responsible for overseeing that company's investment portfolio and subsequently for managing a large disposal programme. He joined McCarthy plc in 1989 as Group estates manager, managing a mixed portfolio of high street retail and industrial property. He joined the Fyffes Group in 1992 and managed its property activities until joining Blackrock in May 2006.
was a non-executive director of the company until his appointment as Finance Director on 1 September 2006. He joined Fyffes in 1991 as special projects manager from PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was managing director corporate affairs from 1996 until his appointment as Company Secretary in 1998. Throughout his career with Fyffes, he was closely involved in all aspects of its property activities.
became a director of the company in June 2008. He has had a lengthy career in the property business and gained a wealth of experience in project design and management, working with a number of companies, in Ireland and other countries. In 1989, he established his own consultancy business, Neasy Project Management Limited, which inter alia provided advisory and project management services to the Fyffes Group. He acts as project director for the company on its property developments in Ireland, the UK and Continental Europe.
became a director of the company in March 2006. He is a partner in Chartered Accountants, O'Connor, Kelliher & Treacy. He heads up the management consultancy division in the firm. He is also involved in the project management of commercial ventures in Ireland and the UK.
became a director of the company in March 2006. He has been property director at a number of businesses including Diageo and BT Group. He is Chairman of Property Solutions [UK] Ltd and a director of Lenborough Consultants. Alan holds senior posts at the RICS and is a past adviser to several UK government ministries. He is a governor of Oxford Brookes University, lectures at Reading University, is an external examiner at Sheffield Hallam and an adviser to University College, London.
became a director of the company in March 2006. He is chief executive of automobile distributor, OHM Group. He is a director of the Bank of Ireland and Fyffes Plc. He is chairman of the Mater Hospital Foundation and UCD Law School Development Council.
trained as a chartered accountant with Grant Thornton. He joined Fyffes in 1989, where he held a variety of senior financial positions based in the UK and in a number of Latin American countries. In May 2006, he joined Blackrock as Company Secretary and Financial Controller.
