Experts unite to plot course for business
Group chairman Eoin O’Driscoll is a former managing director of communications giant Lucent Technologies’ Irish operations. Mr O’Driscoll now heads consulting company Aderra, which provides advice on technology, strategy and change management. Mr O’Driscoll also sits on the boards of the National Microelectronics Applications Centre and Cork University Foundation.
Kerry Group managing director Hugh Friel heads the list of Irish industrialists in the group. Mr Friel’s track record includes spells with Aer Lingus in New York and Mobil Oil in London, before taking a senior position at North Kerry Milk Products, the forerunner of Kerry Group. Mr Friel was deputy managing director at Kerry when it floated in 1986 and took up his current position in 2002.
