Gary Kennedy

"Gary is currently Chairman of Greencore Group plc; Chairman of Green REIT plc and a Non-Executive Director of Friends First Holdings Ltd. He also chairs and advises a number of private companies mostly in the technology sector.

"He has extensive Board and industry experience having been a Board member of Elan plc and IBRC Ltd (Anglo Irish Bank) amongst others and served on the Board of the Industrial Development Authority of Ireland for 10 years, retiring in December 2005.

"His executive career, beginning with Deloitte, matured with Nortel Networks where he spent 13 years in multi-geographies culminating in him becoming Vice President of Nortel Europe.

"He spent the latter part of his executive career with Allied Irish Banks plc, where he was Group Director of Finance and Enterprise Technology and a member of its main Board together with subsidiary Boards in the US and Poland. "