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18 February 2021 - Submitted by Olivia Powell Submitted by Olivia Powell on 18 February 2021
The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) has announced the appointment of Julie O’Neill as non-executive chairperson of the company. O’Neill will take over as chairperson at the beginning of March.
The new appointment follows the announcement made on 7 January this year that Dermod Dwyer was to step down as executive chairman after a 23-year tenure.
Julie O’Neill is an independent non-executive director at Ryanair Plc, AXA Life Europe and XL Insurance Company SE. She is also a senior advisor to the Irish Infrastructure Fund at AMP Capital Investors UK Ltd and an associate director at Murray Consultants.
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.