Board of Directors

Bernard Collins is Chief Executive Officer of Lifemed Consulting Limited. Mr. Collins received a BA Honours in Applied Industrial Psychology/Business from University College Cork, Ireland. Mr. Collins maintains positions at board level on many other companies in Ireland and in the USA. He served for 10 years as Vice President of International Operations at Boston Scientific Corporation until 2003.

Master of Education, GAA President (An-t-Uachtarán) (#)

Jimmy Tolan joined Vhi Healthcare as Chief Executive in May 2008. Mr Tolan was Chief Executive Officer of Fyffes plc since January 2007 and managed Fyffes acquisition function since 1993. Jimmy Tolan is a qualified accountant, having trained with KPMG. He has a B.Comm Degree and a Diploma in Professional Accounting from University College Dublin.

Chairman, Irish Life & Permanent, Plc., Non-Executive Director, Grafton Group, Non-Executive Director, Clear Channel Ireland, Board Member, Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, UCD (*)

Ms Hickey-Dwyer is currently a Partner with Ivor Fitzpatrick & Company Solicitors, specialising in healthcare, family law, clinical negligence and insurance litigation. She was admitted to the Rolls of the Incorporate Law Society of Ireland in 1998. Member, Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, Member, Family Lawyers Association, Member, Law Society of Ireland, Member, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and Member, International Bar Association.

Chairman, Hygienic Stainless Steels Ltd UK, Member of Governing Body, University College Cork 1997 to date, Chairman of UCC Audit Committee 2003-to date, Director of Cork Airport Authority (*)

Senior partner, Baker Tilly Ryan Glennon, Business Partners and Accountants, Past President, German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, Disciplinary Appeals Committee. (#)

Declan Moran has a BSc in Computer Science and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries since 1994. He joined Vhi Healthcare in 1997 from the life and pensions industry and was appointed to the Vhi Board of Directors in 2008. He is responsible for the management of Vhi Healthcare's product portfolio, development of new products and services and provision of actuarial expertise within the organisation.

Seamus Creedon is a qualified actuary with wide ranging experience. He was a partner at KPMG, London, where he led the UK financial sector actuarial practice of KPMG from 2000 to 2003 and was KPMG’s deputy leader of its global actuarial practice. He now leads the contribution of the European actuarial profession to the EU’s reform and harmonization of insurer prudential supervision (Solvency II). Over 1986 to 1993, he was the first Chief Executive of Lifetime, Bank of Ireland’s life assurance company, and Head of Corporate Development, Europe for Bank of Ireland, based in London. In 2007, he was appointed to a three person review group by Minister Mary Harney to carry out a business appraisal of the health insurance market in Ireland. Currently he holds a number of non executive positions ie Chairman of Reliance Mutual Insurance Society, Director of Baillie Gifford Life and Director of RGA Reinsurance UK.

Celine Fitzgerald is CEO of Rigney Dolphin Group, one of Ireland’s leading business process outsource service providers employing over 1100 people. Rigney Dolphin was selected as one of Deloittes best managed companies in 2009 and again in 2010. Prior to joining Rigney Dolphin, Celine was a director at Vodafone Ireland for over seven years. Celine is a CRM and customer service expert having worked in Vodafone on developing their customer management strategy and delivery plans both in Ireland and across the Vodafone Group. Celine has served in a number of senior roles in the telecommunications and BPO sectors where she has consistently demonstrated strong leadership and delivered strong results.