Appointments to the Beaumont Hospital Board

Following a Public Appointments Services (PAS) campaign, the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, has appointed Ms. Loretto Callaghan, Mr. Kevin O’Donovan, Ms. Louise McMorrow and Mr. Michal Siwiec as members of the Beaumont Hospital Board.

Loretto Callaghan

Loretto Callaghan is an experienced non-executive director with country leadership, executive leadership, and board directorship experience in the Biopharmaceutical / Healthcare sector. In her most recent role, she was CEO and Country President of Novartis in Ireland where she led a series of organisational restructures, and culture and business model transformations. She also served as Chair and executive director of the Irish Subsidiary board of Novartis AG, was a board member of the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) and Chair of the IPHA Brexit Group. Ms Callaghan holds a M.Sc. from Trinity College, Dublin, and a B.Sc. from University College Dublin and has studied Healthcare Systems at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a Chartered Director with the UK Institute of Directors and is a member of the Governance Advisory Council of the Corporate Governance Institute.

Her appointment is from 29 April 2021 to 28 April 2024.

Kevin O’Donovan

Kevin is currently a Lecturer in Audit & Assurance at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Masters in Accounting Programme. He had a legacy 34 year career in professional practice in KPMG Ireland as an Audit Engagement Partner covering listed, state and private entities including SEC Registrants and served a Term as Head of Audit. He also served for 6 years in KPMG International’s Global Risk Management Team. Separately, Kevin has previously served terms as Chairman of Audit Committee Institute Ireland, Chair of the Audit Committee of Arts Council Ireland, Chair of the Audit Committee of the Irish Auditing & Accounting Supervisory Authority, a member of the Audit Committee of Tusla, The Child Protection Agency, and a member of the Independent Oversight Board as a nominee of the Commission for Communications Regulation.

He has served on standard setting bodies in Audit & Assurance in Ireland and Internationally (including Chartered Accountants Ireland, Auditing Practices Board (UK) and task forces of the International Audit & Assurance Standards Board).

His appointment is from 29 April 2021 to 28 April 2024.

Louise McMorrow

Louise is a Certified Investment Fund Director and Chartered Accountant operating almost 20 years in the Funds, Structured Finance, and Banking & Capital Markets sectors. She has 12 years governance experience across a range of Investment companies. Her current Independent Non-Executive Director appointments include Irish domiciled Private Equity, Real Estate and Credit structures of regulated Global Alternative Investment Managers.

Formerly Executive Director and Head of Financial Reporting Ireland for LSE listed administrator Sanne Group (previously State Street Global Services). Prior to this Louise was with PricewaterhouseCoopers where she held a market risk advisory role and was also engaged in the provision of audit services to banks, funds and corporate treasuries. She has also worked as a part time lecturer with Dublin City University.

Louise is an associate member of the Irish Fund Directors Association, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland and a member of the Certified Investment Fund Director Institute.

Her appointment is from 29 June 2021 to 28 June 2024.

Michal Siwiec

Mr Michal Siwiec is a Chartered Internal Auditor (CMIIA) and a Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) with close to 20 years of experience across auditing, accounting, and risk management roles in financial services, the last 14 of which have been within internal audit and operational risk management at a major international financial services institution. His previous experience includes a finance role at a leading UK insurance company, as well as external audit and consultancy positions with a Big 4 accountancy firm. Mr Siwiec is joining the Board of the Beaumont Hospital and will serve on the Governance & Risk Committee. He is also a Non-Executive Director and Audit & Risk Committee member at a university hospital in Dublin, an independent Chair of the Audit Committee at a public sector archaeological charity, and a member of the Business and Finance Committee of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors UK & Ireland (CIIA). He holds an M.Sc. in Finance and Banking and has achieved several professional qualifications, including the Advanced Diploma in Internal Auditing and Management (MIIA) with the CIIA UK & Ireland, Certified Internal Auditor (CIA - IIA Inc), Operational Risk Manager (ORM - PRMIA), and the Graduate Certificate in Management of Information Systems Strategy (awarded by the Dublin City University).

His appointment is from 29 June 2021 to 28 June 2024.