Reappointments to the Voluntary Health Insurance Board
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The Minister for Health, Simon Harris TD has re-appointed the following as members of the Voluntary Health Insurance Board.
Mr Brian Walsh from 15 March 2020 to 14 March 2025
Mr Walsh joined Vhi in November 2014 as Finance Director and was appointed to the Board in March 2015. Prior to joining Vhi, he worked with DPI Specialty Foods Inc., Los Angeles, a division of global food and ingredients company Ornua. Previously, Brian led a successful private equity fund, focused principally on continental and European markets. He has led Board and executive financial and commercial roles in the international and financial services, telecommunications and FMC G industries in Europe and the United States with leading companies including Citibank, Deutsche Telekom and eir. Brian is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Mr Finbar Lennon from 15 March 2020 to 14 March 2022
Finbar Lennon is a medical graduate of UCD and did his postgraduate surgical training in London, Edmonton (Canada) and Dublin. He worked as a consultant general surgeon in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda (1983-2012). From 2009 until 2012 he also worked in Beaumont and the Mater hospitals in Dublin as a specialty breast surgeon. He was Medical Director in Drogheda (1992-1998), Medical Advisor to the North Eastern Health Board (1997-2004) and a medical advisor to the Secretary General in the Department of Health (2012-2014). He was a member of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and served on its Practice Development Committee (2012-2016). He is currently an honourary lecturer in surgery in UCD and participates in the undergraduate teaching programme.