Founding chairman of The Convention Centre Dublin to step down
The executive chairman of The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD), Dermod Dwyer, has announced that he is to step down from the role after 23 years.
Dwyer steered the concept, design, construction and funding of the CCD to completion in September 2010. He will chair his final meeting of The CCD Board at the end of February. The process to appoint a new Chairperson is currently underway.
Dwyer became the founding chairman of The Spencer Dock Development Company in 1997, becoming executive chair of The CCD group of companies in 1999.
Announcing his departure, Mr Dwyer said: “It has been my great personal privilege to work with the original promoters – John Ronan and Richard Barrett, with Kevin Roche as architect, and to have assembled an extraordinary team of people who tendered successfully for this Public Private Partnership project.