Our People

Directors and Secretary

Balmoral benefits from a proactive, highly committed and experienced Board of Directors which has a wide range of talents and skills.

 

Carl McCann, BBS, MA, FCA
Chairman

is also chairman of Dole plc. He is a director of a number of other companies. He previously held the role of chairman of Fyffes plc until 2006. He joined that group in 1980.

 

Robert Knox, HD Estate Management
Chief Executive

graduated in estate management in the UK in 1983. He has worked in general practice as an estate agent and valuer and managed mixed portfolios of office, retail and industrial property for a number of public companies. He joined Balmoral in May 2006.

 

Catherine Ghose, B.Comm, Dip in Prof. Acc, FCA, Diploma in Company Direction
Finance Director and Company Secretary

was appointed finance director of the group on 1 October 2012. She is managing director of Charles McCann Investments Limited, a former independent member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of University College Dublin, and a former member of the board of the National Maternity Hospital.

 

Tom Neasy
Executive Director

became a director of the group in June 2007. He has had a long career in the property business and has a wealth of experience in project design and management, working with a number of companies in Ireland and other countries. He is a property consultant.

 

Andrew Kelliher, B.Comm
Non-Executive Director

was appointed to the board in 2006. He has over 30 years’ experience in finance and accounting and currently holds a consultative position with a firm of chartered accountants. He is a member of the audit committee and a member of the remuneration committee.

 

Tom Murphy, B.Comm., FCA
Non-Executive Director

was appointed to the board in 2022. He is a chartered accountant with over 30 years of financial and commercial experience while based in the UK, the US and Ireland. He served as CFO of Fyffes Plc. for 14 years. Now retired, he is a non-executive director of several companies. He is chairperson of the Balmoral audit committee.

 

Davy McCann, BBS
Non-Executive Director

was appointed to the board on 1 July 2023. He is a business and economics graduate and a property and consumer goods entrepreneur.