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Business Leadership: “Accelerating gender balance at all levels”
Business leadership: “Accelerating gender balance at all levels”
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Business leadership: “Accelerating gender balance at all levels”
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4.00pm Welcome
Marie O’Connor, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Country Lead, 30% Club Ireland, with opening
remarks from Richard Bruton TD, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
4.20pm The 30% Club Approach
Helena Morrissey, Founder 30% Club and CEO Newton
4.30pm Views from the Top
Moderator - Helena Morrissey
Panel discussion
Denise Wilson, CEO, Women on Boards, Davies Review
Michael Buckley, Chairman, KKR Alternative Investments & KKR Credit Advisors, former Chairman, DCC
Kieran McGowan, Chairman, Business in the Community
4.50pm Ideas to Accelerate Gender Balance
Introduction - Bríd Horan, former Deputy CEO, ESB and Non-Executive Director
Investor Perspective
Jennifer Law, Vice President, Corporate Governance, EMEA, BlackRock Asset Management
Future Work - Delivering Through Diversity
Peter Cosgrove, Director, CPL
Project 28-40
Opportunity Now research focusing on the early-mid career pipeline, Julie McClean, PwC Belfast and
Kathryn Nawrockyi, Opportunity Now
5.25pm Challenging Perceived Wisdom
Introduction - Darina Barrett, Partner, KPMG
Insights on Unconscious Bias
Professor Ciarán O’Boyle, Director of Institute of Leadership, RCSI
Cracking the Code
Rachel Short, Director, YSC, research by YSC in partnership with KPMG and 30% Club
5.45pm Collaborating to Achieve Real Change
Introduction - Carol Andrews, Managing Director, BNY Mellon
Vivienne Jupp, Chairman, CIE and Founder, Board Diversity Initiative
Aongus Hegarty, President of Europe, Middle East and Asia, Dell
6.00pm Close
Marie O’Connor, 30% Club Ireland future plans and closing remarks
6.15pm Drinks Reception
Please note that this is an on the record event and views expressed are not necessarily representative of all 30% Club
members.
With sincere thanks to BNY Mellon and ESB for generously sponsoring this event.
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Marie O’Connor Partner, PwC and Country Lead, 30% Club Ireland
Marie O’Connor is a partner at PwC in Ireland and specialises in providing audit and business advisory services to the financial services industry. Marie is the lead engagement partner on a number of Dublin’s most successful investment fund structures and has advised a number of leading US asset management groups in establishing operations in Ireland. She was the lead partner of PwC’s Irish asset management practice for 12 years until 2007 and was also the Financial Services Leader at PwC in Ireland for the later four years. Marie was a member of PwC’s Global Investment Management Leadership team and PwC’s European IM and FS Leadership executive for many years. Marie has been appointed as non-executive director by the Irish Government over the last 20 years. Appointments have included Dublin Airport Authority, IDA Ireland, Irish Life, National College of Art and Top Level Appointments Committee. Marie is a member of the Irish Chapter of the Ireland US Council for Commerce and Industry and has been a board member of both the American Chamber of Commerce and the Economic and Social Research Institute for Ireland. Marie is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, and is also qualified as a Barrister. Marie has
four adult children.
Helena Morrissey CBE FSIP CEO, Newton and Founder 30% Club
Helena Morrissey joined Newton in 1994 as a fixed
income fund manager and was appointed CEO in 2001.
Newton manages more than £50bn for pension funds,
charities and through funds available to individual
investors.
In 2010, Helena founded the 30% Club, a cross-business
initiative aimed at achieving 30% women on UK corporate
boards by 2015 through voluntary, business-led change.
This has now become an international approach, with 30%
Clubs in the US, Hong Kong, Ireland and Southern Africa.
She also chairs Opportunity Now, Business in the
Community’s gender diversity campaign.
In June 2014 Helena was appointed Chair of The
Investment Association, the UK’s industry trade body
whose members manage £5trn.
In both 2013 and 2014, Helena was voted one of the 50
Most Influential People in Finance by Bloomberg Markets
Magazine. She is a Fellow of the Society of Investment
Professionals, a Fellow of the London Business School and
was appointed CBE in the 2012 New Year’s Honours list.
A Cambridge philosophy graduate, she began her career
as a global bond analyst with Schroders in New York.
Helena is married with nine children.
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Kieran McGowan Founding Chair, 30% Club Ireland
Kieran McGowan is Chairman of Appian Asset Management and of Business in the Community Ireland. He is also Chairman of the Public Interest Board of PwC.
He retired as Chief Executive of IDA Ireland on 31 December 1998. He was Chairman of CRH Plc (2007-2012) and Lead Independent Director of Elan Corporation (2006-2013).
He was Chairman (1998-2000) and President (2000-2002) of the Irish Management Institute. He retired in 2010 as a Director of United Drug plc., in 2009 as Chairman of the Governing Authority, University College Dublin and during 2008 as a Director of Enterprise Ireland Limited and Irish Life & Permanent plc. He was a founder member of InterTradeIreland, the
North/South body set up at the inaugural plenary meeting
of the Irish North-South Ministerial Council, held in
December 1999. He was a director of Co-operation
Ireland.
He was Commissioner General for Ireland in relation to EXPO 2000 at Hanover, Germany and a Board member of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games Limited. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by
University College Dublin in 2009 and received the Royal
Dublin Society (RDS) Gold Medal for Industry in 2008.
Denise Wilson
Denise Wilson is CEO of the Davies Review for Women on
Boards in the UK, which led the UK's business focused,
voluntary framework for increasing the number of women
on FTSE 350 Boards.
She is also Chair of the Royal Academy of Arts Friends
Board, as well as a non-executive director on the board of
Ecclesiastical Insurance Group and Chair of their
Remuneration Committee. She is also a Trustee of All
Churches Trust and Mentor to senior women and
executives in the corporate and charitable sectors.
Denise spent much of her 30 year corporate career in the
Oil and Gas industry, holding senior executive roles at
National Grid plc, BG Group and British Gas plc. She began
her career in the Insurance sector, having graduated in
Modern Languages and is FCII qualified.
She is a fluent Spanish speaker, passionate about the Arts,
the outdoors and development of women and young
people. She lives with her husband and teenage sons in
Henley on Thames and the Lake District.
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Bríd Horan is a member of the 30% Club Ireland
Steering Committee. She is an Independent Non-
executive Director of FBD Holdings plc, a member
of DCU Governing Authority and of the Council of
the IMI.
In October 2014 Bríd retired from her role as
Deputy Chief Executive of ESB, having spent eight
years on the ESB Executive Team. Prior to joining
ESB as Group Pensions Manager in 1997, Bríd
headed KPMG Pension & Actuarial Consulting.
She served on the Board of the IDA (1996 – 2006)
and as a Commissioner of the National Pensions
Reserve Fund (2001 – 2009) and was a member of
the 2014 Strategic Review Group for the Arts
Council.
Bríd is an Actuary and a Chartered Director (IOD)
and is a Director of Chamber Choir Ireland and a
mentor on the WXN Wisdom Top 25 Mentoring
Programme.
Michael Buckley Founding Chair, 30% Club Ireland
Michael Buckley is Chairman of KKR Alternative Investment
Management and of KKR Credit Advisers Ireland. He is a Non-
Executive Director of UK Asset Resolution and also devotes
substantial time to working with a number of small and medium
sized enterprises on their international expansion, talent
development and management systems. Michael was Chairman of
DCC plc from May 2008 to September 2014, and was previously
DCC’s Senior Independent Director from September 2005. During
his time as Chairman of DCC he embraced the goals of growth
through diversity and in 2013 achieved the 30% Club’s goal of 30
per cent women on the DCC Board.
He was Group Chief Executive of AIB from 2001 to June 2005 and
has served as a NED on the Boards of listed companies in Asia, the
USA and Europe.
Michael is an Adjunct Professor at the College of Business and Law
in the National University of Ireland, University College Cork,
where he chaired the Department of Economics’ Advisory Board
for six years and contributed to the MBA and DBA programmes. He
has a special interest in the seminal work of Edith Penrose, which
provides the intellectual foundation for the resource-based theory
of the firm. He is currently helping to set up the Keynes Business
Practitioner Research Centre at the University.
He is Chairman of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO), a world class
small orchestra which tours regularly in Germany, Austria, the
Netherlands and the USA, as well as throughout Ireland. Inspired
by El Sistema, the ICO has also for the past seven years
implemented a ground-breaking programme using music-making
as a tool for the personal and social development of children from
very deprived communities.
Michael’s personal interests centre on family, the sea, painting,
music and Munster rugby, about each of which he is passionate.
Bríd Horan Steering Committee member, 30% Club Ireland
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Jennifer Law
Jennifer Law is a member of the Corporate Governance
and Responsible Investment (CGRI) team at BlackRock,
based in London. She is responsible for corporate
governance analysis, including voting and engagement
with issuers in the UK, Ireland, and a number of other
markets within Europe and Africa. Jennifer is also
responsible for engaging with other market participants
on corporate governance issues, and contributing to
corporate governance policy development. An active
participant in BlackRock's responsible investment efforts,
she supports the integration of responsible investment
considerations into the investment process.
Prior to joining BlackRock, Jennifer worked at BMO
Nesbitt Burns in Canada managing assets for high net-
worth individuals.
Jennifer holds a Master of Science in Diplomacy and
International Strategy from the London School of
Economics and Political Science. She earned a Bachelor in
Business Administration with a specialism in finance from
the University of Toronto.
Peter Cosgrove
Peter Cosgrove has over 20 years business experience and
is currently a Director with CPL. Peter has a strong
background in helping companies improve their business
by focusing on their people. He is a regular contributor to
the national media on business and talent trends as well
as a speaker at industry events.
Peter is also Chairman of the Not for Profit organisation
Junior Achievement, an organisation targeted at keeping
students in schools to improve their education, and has
just stepped down as President of the National
Recruitment Federation.
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Kathryn Nawrockyi
Kathryn Nawrockyi is Director of Opportunity Now, the gender
equality campaign from Business in the Community (BITC).
Opportunity Now empowers employers to accelerate change for
women in the workplace. Working with a membership of 200
organisations across private and public sectors, the campaign aims
to increase women's success at work – because it's not only good
for business but good for society too.
Kathryn is author of Project 28-40, the largest ever UK study of
women at work. With over 25,000 responses to this national study,
Project 28-40 gives real insight into women’s experiences at work.
Kathryn is now working with Opportunity Now members to move
the development of female talent from a diversity initiative to a
core business priority.
Prior to Kathryn’s appointment as Director in 2013, she was
a Diversity Advisor for Opportunity Now and partner race
equality campaign Race for Opportunity. She also
previously worked on the BITC Community Impact Offer, a
range of volunteering programmes to inspire companies to
work together to tackle key social issues. Kathryn began her
career at PwC in 2006, where she held roles in Banking &
Capital Markets Assurance and Graduate Recruitment.
Julie McClean leads PwC's gender diversity
research team, and working with Opportunity
Now, designed and delivered the Project 28-40
study.
Julie is a social researcher by background, with
over 25 years’ experience of using research to
effect change. Julie is based in PwC's Belfast
office, the firm's Global Centre of Excellence for
market research, and is currently working on a
number of approaches to help organisations
improve their gender balance at senior levels.
Julie specialises in transport, public health,
education and retail & consumer sectors, and
works with her clients to help them understand
the needs and views of their customers, their
stakeholders and their employees. Julie uses this
insight to help her clients make better business
decisions.
Julie McClean
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Professor Ciarán O’Boyle
Dr. Ciarán O’Boyle is a Professor of Psychology and the founding
Director of the Institute of Leadership at the RCSI
(www.rcsileadership.org). He holds BSc in Psychology and
Pharmacology and a PhD both from University College Dublin, a
Diploma in Theology from the Milltown Institute of Theology and
Philosophy, and a Diploma in Organisational Leadership from the
University of Oxford.
He has served as Vice Dean and a member of the RCSI’s Senior
Management Team. Ciarán established the first Department of
Psychology in an Irish medical school in 1985 at the RCSI and he
has been a Visiting Professor of Behavioural Sciences at Trinity
College, Dublin. He established the RCSI Institute of Leadership in
2005 to develop the leadership and management competencies
of healthcare professionals. Each year, the Institute has over 500
professionals taking its Masters programmes at its bases in
Ireland, Bahrain, Dubai and Jordan.
His major interest is in the application of psychology to solving
practical problems. He lectures extensively in Ireland and
internationally and has published widely. He has been a
consultant psychologist to public sector institutions and a range
of national and international private sector organisations in the
military, aviation, financial services and healthcare sectors. For
many years, he was Ireland’s leading consultant aviation
psychologist for pilot selection, and human factors training. He
was also a founding director of the Flight Operations
Management training programme at the IATA in Geneva. He has
provided leadership and management training for the WHO, the
IMI, IBEC, and the Smurfit Business School as well as the
Ministries of Health in Ireland, Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan, Egypt,
Saudi Arabia and Sub-Saharan Africa. His major interest is in the
application of psychology to organisations particularly in the
fields of values-based leadership, diversity, stress management
and work-life balance.
Darina Barrett Steering Committee member, 30% Club
Ireland
Darina Barrett is a Partner with KPMG since 1999
and heads their financial services practice in
Ireland. Her areas of specialisation include
investment management, real estate, structured
finance and aviation.
She is a Chartered Accountant and has a B.Comm
from UCG and post-graduate diploma from UCD.
She is a member of the Steering Committee for the
30% Club in Ireland and leads KPMG’s Diversity
initiative.
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Rachel Short
Rachel is a Director at YSC, based in London. She supports
a range of FTSE 250 clients to build individual and
organisational capability. Rachel’s areas of interest include
diversity and individual, team and organisational
effectiveness. Her coaching assignments frequently
involve helping senior women to progress to enterprise
leadership roles. In addition to her client responsibilities,
she has managed the YSC Online business, and has been
leading the development of YSC’s point of view on female
leaders and gender diversity.
Describing herself as a ‘late bloomer’, Rachel has recently
attracted wider public attention. Her home was featured
in Period Living, then she appeared on Woman’s Hour to
talk about the psychology of game-changers, and most
recently she has covered the launch and publication of
research into why women succeed at work –
commissioned by the 30% Club. Her straightforward,
plain-speaking style seems to work well for a range of
audiences.
Before joining YSC, she worked in Communications in BP
and the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development. She had a number of HR roles in NatWest
Group, Coutts and Metro Inspection Services. Her
increasing interest in how organisations bring the best out
in people led to her retraining as an organisational
psychologist. Prior to joining YSC in late 2005, Rachel
completed an MSc in Organisational Psychology at City
University, gaining a national award from the British
Psychological Society for her research into age diversity.
Rachel studied Classics, married and had two children at
Oxford. When not working, she is often travelling to far
flung places to visit her husband who works in overseas
development and has just set up a micro-finance
organisation that supports female entrepreneurs in
Zimbabwe.
Carol Andrews is Managing Director and Head of EMEA
Service Delivery for BNY Mellon’s Alternative Investment
Services business, a leading provider of hedge fund,
private equity, fund of fund administration and prime
custody services. Carol was appointed to this role in 2010
and is responsible for fund administration services in
EMEA including NAV and portfolio accounting, transfer
agency and client services. She has extensive experience
with major integration initiatives, regulatory issues and
migration projects.
Prior to her current role, Carol was expatriated to New
York where she successfully established the Global Client
Services model. She joined The Bank of New York in 2006
with the acquisition associated with the AIB/BNY joint
venture. She was seconded to the Brussels office to
manage the integration. Upon completion of that project,
Carol was appointed European head of the client service
team for Alternative Investment Services business.
Carol serves as a Director for BNY Mellon Fund Services