Business movers: People starting new jobs in Ireland

New appointees with Finance Solutions, Damovo, PJ Hegarty, Leinster Co-Op Marts, Department of Children, Disability and Equality and Binarii Labs

New roles: (top row) Philip Healy, Katelyn Miller, Maurice Killeen; (bottom row) Paddy Galvin, Dr Aisling Parkes, Neil Barlow.

Here is a selection of people starting new roles with Finance Solutions, Damovo, PJ Hegarty, Leinster Co-Op Marts, Department of Children, Disability and Equality and Binarii Labs.

Philip Healy has been appointed as head of commercial lending with Finance Solutions, part of mortgage broker Howden, as the company accelerates its expansion into commercial mortgages and asset finance. Philip brings over two decades of experience in financial services, having worked across banking, broker services and commercial lending. He has extensive experience in SME finance, property finance and investment lending, with significant experience managing transactions from structuring through to completion. The move forms part of Finance Solutions’ wider growth strategy, which includes ambitions to create 100 new jobs, deliver €2bn in lending and significantly expand its presence across the commercial finance market.

Katelyn Miller has been appointed as marketing manager with Damovo, an ICT and communications solutions provider, as the company continues to build its presence and profile in the Irish market and across its international business. She joins Damovo from Wrike, where she has spent the past five years as regional marketing manager, leading integrated demand generation campaigns across EMEA and North America. Her career to date has been defined by a focus on connecting marketing activity directly to pipeline and commercial outcomes. “What attracted me to Damovo was the opportunity to join a business operating in such an important and fast-moving space,” said Katelyn.

Maurice Killeen has been appointed as managing director for Ireland with PJ Hegarty, the Irish large-scale building and civil engineering company. Maurice joined the company in 1993 and has since delivered complex, high-value projects across the civil, industrial, pharmaceutical, life science and commercial sectors. Maurice’s appointment follows senior roles as regional director and more recently as operations director (southern region) following his appointment to the PJ Hegarty board in 2022. He is an Engineering graduate of UCD. PJ Hegarty has also appointed Barry Dodd as managing director, UK, where he will oversee a business with a projected turnover of £110m this year.

Paddy Galvin has been appointed as general manager of Leinster Co-Op Marts. He brings extensive experience in livestock systems, agribusiness and CRM to the role. He joins from Tirlán, where he held senor roles since 2016, notably as ruminant business manager. In that role he supported farmers in improving on-farm efficiency and profitability. He also has hands-on farming experience, having managed a dairy enterprise and continuing to operate a beef and sheep farming system at home. He succeeds the late Jimmy Walsh, who contributed over 40 years of dedicated service to the organisation and the wider farming community and who passed away in January.

Dr Aisling Parkes, a senior lecturer in Law at UCC, has been appointed as special rapporteur on child protection with the Department of Children, Disability and Equality for a two-year term. She is an expert in child and family law, children’s rights and child protection. She brings over 20 years of relevant academic experience across children’s rights and family justice. Her roles have included lecturer in Law, School of law, UCC (2008–19), programme director, Law School, Griffith College Cork (2006-08), and part-time lecturer and tutor in Law, UCC (2002-06). She is involved in Children’s Rights Alliance, Children of Prisoners Europe network and other policy groups.

Neil Barlow has been appointed as an executive advisor with Binarii Labs, the cybersecurity company headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin. He brings 25 years’ experience in senior roles across cybersecurity, AI and technology risk management. His previous roles include: director, infrastructure and corporate security (including AI security), deputy CISO (chief information security officer), Fintech, and director of cybersecurity at Meta; international CISO and VP of cybersecurity and technology risk management at Capital One, and information security manager at NYSE Euronext. He has led security engineering for hyperscale infrastructure and AI systems and overseen global cybersecurity and technology risk programmes within highly regulated, cloud-first environments.