Board of Directors
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Robert Sharpe
Chairman and Non-Executive Director
Appointed Chairman on the 27 April 2016, bringing over 35 years of Senior Executive and Board experience to the role, primarily in Retail Banking. He is currently Chairman at Al Rayan Bank plc, Non-Executive Director at Aldermore Bank plc and Honeycomb Investment Trust plc and Hampshire Trust Bank. Robert worked extensively in the Middle East, where he held several Non-Executive Directorships at banks in the UAE, Oman and Turkey. Prior to this, he led the transformation and turnaround at West Bromwich Building Society as Chief Executive Officer, having formerly been Chief Executive at the Portman Building Society and Chief Executive of Bank of Ireland’s business in the UK. His previous Non-Executive Director roles include Barclays Bank Pension Board, Chairman of Vaultex (UK) Ltd, George Wimpey plc, LSL Properties plc and the RIAS Group Ltd.
External Directorships: Chairman and Non-executive Director of Al Rayan Bank, Honeycomb Investment Trust Ltd and Hampshire Trust Bank.
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Desmond Crowley
Chief Executive Officer, Retail UK Division
Appointed Director of BOI (UK) plc in September 2009. Appointed Chief Executive Officer of BOI (UK) plc in March 2012. Joined BOI Group in 1988. In March 2000 became a member of the Bank of Ireland Group Executive Committee, on being appointed Chief Executive of Retail Banking Ireland. Appointed Chief Executive of UK Financial Services, Director of Bristol & West plc and Bank of Ireland UK Holdings plc in January 2006. Appointed Director of the Parent in October 2006, until his retirement from this position in June 2011. Appointed as Chief Executive Officer - Retail (Ireland & UK) in May 2009 and Chief Executive- Retail UK Division in March 2012.
Previously Chairman of Post Office Financial Services. A Director of First Rate Exchange Services, the foreign exchange joint venture with UK Post Office. He is also Director of New Ireland Assurance Company plc.
Qualifications: BA (Mod) Econ, FCMA -
Neil Fuller
Chief Risk Officer
Appointed Director of Bank of Ireland (UK) plc and Chief Risk Officer in October 2015. Neil joined Bank of Ireland from GE Capital UK, where he held the role of Chief Risk Officer since 2011. He has over 30 years of financial services experience, having previously worked for Royal Bank of Scotland, where he held the role of Chief Risk Officer, UK Retail Division, and having previously held a number of senior management roles in UK Retail Banking across Credit Risk, Enterprise & Operational Risk and Operations.
Prior to that, Neil worked for NatWest Bank in a number of Branch and Regional Management roles.
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Thomas McAreavey
Chief Financial Officer
Appointed Chief Financial Officer in March 2017. He has over 15 years experience in the Bank of Ireland Group, having held various senior management positions within Finance, including leading a range of strategic projects for BOI. Prior to that he held a management position within Pricewaterhouse Coopers. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant.
Thomas is also a Director of a number of BOI Group subsidiaries.
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Lewis Love
Group Chief Operating Officer
Appointed to the Board of the Bank of Ireland (UK) plc in October 2016, and appointed Bank of Ireland's Group Chief Operating Officer responsible for our Group Manufacturing Division and a member of the Group Executive Committee on 5 September 2016.
Previously served as Bank of Ireland's Head of Asset and Liability Management, followed by an eight-year period with Aon plc, most recently as Global Chief Procurement Officer. At Aon plc, Lewis held a range of responsibilities including the management of Aon's global procurement spend, global real estate, and shared service strategy as well as management of certain of Aon's Operations in India and Poland.
A graduate of both the State University of New York at Buffalo and New York Law School, Lewis worked in legal roles between 1985 and 1990 with several NY law firms, followed by roles in Westpac Banking Corporation, Washington Mutual Inc., Barclays Bank plc, Bank of Ireland, and Aon plc.
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Donal Collins
Head of Group Strategy & Development
Appointed Director of Bank of Ireland (UK) plc in July 2015. Donal joined Bank of Ireland Group in 1999 and became a member of the Group Executive Committee in 2014. He has held a number of senior management positions including Director, Corporate Banking; Head of Group Projects and Head of Group Strategy Development. Prior to joining Bank of Ireland, Donal worked for KBC Bank in a range of international senior management roles in aerospace, infrastructure and asset financing and KPMG Ireland as Director, Taxation. Donal is a graduate of University College Dublin. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants of Ireland and an Associate of the Irish Institute of Taxation.
Qualifications: BComm MBA -
Susan Harris
Non-Executive Director
Appointed Director of BOI (UK) plc in July 2015, and member of the Audit and Risk Committees. Sue was previously a non-executive director of St James’s Place, Chair of the Finance and Audit Committees at Mencap, and Chair of Trustees of KCP Youth. She has held a number of senior executive positions in the financial services and retail sectors, including Group Audit Director, Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), Financial Control Director, LBG, leading LBG’s potential accession into the Government Asset Protection Scheme: Finance Director of LBG's Retail Bank; and Finance Director of Cheltenham & Gloucester. Sue has held a number of other senior finance executive positions including Managing Director Finance at Standard Life, and Head of Corporate Development and Group Treasurer of Marks & Spencer. Sue is a member of the Audit and Assurance Council of the Financial Reporting Council.
External Directorships: Non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of ABCAM, Non-executive director at Schroder & Co. and Barclays Pension Fund Trustees Limited.
Qualifications: ACMA, BSc Hons Chemistry -
David Weymouth
Non-Executive Director
Appointed Director of Bank of Ireland (UK) plc in June 2015. Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Risk Committee. David retired from RSA Insurance plc in May 2015 where he was Chief Risk Officer and a member of the Executive Committee. He has nearly 40 years’ experience in Financial Services holding senior roles across Operations Risk Technology and Business Leadership including five years as Chief Information Officer and member of the Executive Committee at Barclays up to 2005. He has also consulted Government and major financial services institution on risk and technology enabled change.
David is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers and has a BA from University College London and an MBA from the University of Exeter.
External directorships include: Royal London Mutual Insurance Society and Chairman of Mizuho International Holdings and Fil Holdings UK.
Qualifications: MBA Finance, BA French and Italian -
John Maltby
Non-Executive Director
Appointed to the Board of Bank of Ireland (UK) plc in November 2015, and appointed Chair of the Risk Committee in August 2017. John is also a member of the Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Risk Committees. He is currently Chairman of Good Energy Group plc, and a member of its Audit and Remuneration Committees. Previous Board appointments include Chief Executive Officer and member of Transitional Board of Williams & Glynn, Chairman of Board of Lloyds Commercial Finance, Member of the Board Cheltenham & Gloucester plc, Chairman of the Board of Start Mortgages Ireland, Member of the Board of Lombard Bank. He has also previously been Group Chief Executive of Kensington Group PLC, a specialist mortgage business and Group Director, Commercial Banking for Lloyds Banking Group .
John has also held senior executive roles throughout the financial services industry, including Natwest Group PLC, Barclays Bank PLC and Abbey National PLC.
Qualifications: BSc Hons Engineering Science
External Directorships include: Good Energy Group plc, Bluestep Bank and Tandem Bank. -
Pat Butler
Non Executive Director
Appointed to the Board of Bank of Ireland (UK) plc in January 2017. He is also a Director of Bank of Ireland Group.
Pat is a partner of The Resolution Group,. Prior to this he spent twenty five years with McKinsey & Co., where he was a senior Director and led the firm’s UK Financial Services Practice and its EMEA Retail Banking Practice. At McKinsey & Co., he advised banks, insurance companies and asset managers as well as a range of companies outside financial services, on issues of strategy, operations, performance improvement and organisation.
Pat has considerable strategic experience in a broad range of industries with an international profile, and an in-depth strategic and operational knowledge of the European and International Banking sector in particular. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland.
External Appointments Include: Non-executive Director of Hikma Pharmaceuticals plc, where he is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nomination and Compliance, Responsibility and Ethics Committees. Governor of the British Film Institute. Non-executive Director of The Resolution Foundation and Res Media Limited. Director of TIG Topco Ltd.