Clúid firmly believes that our success is down to our dedicated, professional team. Board members, all of whom are non-executive, are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of experience and skills to their deliberations. The board aims to ensure a balance of both age and gender among members and openly advertises for positions. The board is committed to maintaining high standards of corporate governance.


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Mark Shakespeare, Chair

Mark has over 30 years of senior management experience, most recently as a senior director in Finance with Montreal incorporated SNC-Lavalin Group. Prior to the acquisition of Kentz Group by SNC, he was treasurer of London-listed Kentz Group. He has served as treasurer of the McInerney Homebuilding Group for nearly 20 years and during this time he gained experience in the private and social housing markets in Ireland and the UK. His previous career had been in the public sector.

Roy Barrett, Vice Chair

A business leader with 30+ years’ experience of managing a leading stockbroking firm through ownership changes and market disruptions, as well as establishing one of Ireland’s largest Single Family Offices. Has also held several non-executive roles including chairing a national sports body which had to be extensively restructured on foot of financial, governance and other difficulties.

Philippa Cottle

Philippa is a solicitor who has spent the last twenty years working in the aviation sector in Dublin. Now retired from transactional work she is director and head of legal of Blueberry Aviation Group. Prior to arriving in Dublin she worked for three leading law firms and an international aviation business.   She is an experienced non-executive director and holds voluntary positions on the boards of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, the Dublin International Piano Competition and Savvi Credit Union.  She has acted on a number of board committees.as well as acting as chair. A native of London, Philippa lived and worked in France and the United States before arriving in Dublin some 20 years ago.

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Alun Dawson

Alun has over 25 years of experience in real estate, leading all development activity in Ireland and providing strategic oversight of major projects across mainland Europe for vertically integrated investment firm Round Hill Capital. Having studied at University College London, Alun is also a Chartered Member of both the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and Association for Project Management (APM). Alun has specialised throughout his career in residential development across both the private and public sector creating sustainable homes and communities.

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Eamonn Doyle

Eamonn has spent 25 years as Chief Executive or Chief Operations Officer in the technology and financial services sectors. Through these roles, he has extensive management experience of information technology, programme management, risk management, and governance – much of that gained in complex multi-country environments. His previous employers were IBM, Capgemini, and the Davy Group.

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Caroline Godsil

Caroline has over 25 years experience in all aspects of IT Operations with particular expertise in large scale program and change management, focusing on human resources, processes, procedures and operational structures for the enhancement of overall business performance. Having retired from an executive role in Eir (previously Evros Technology Group) Caroline has focused on non-exec positions and currently sits on the Audit and Risk Committee for Focus Ireland and the Board of St.Broc’s House.

Caroline’s expertise is in defining and developing cross-functional programs, teams and growth initiatives that deliver business results focusing on compliance, overall governance and risk management. Caroline has recently joined the Case Processing Panel for The Department of Justice.