Joan Garahy

Joan Garahy is a member of the board of directors of Kerry Group plc (ISE:KRZ) since January 2012 and has been Chair of its Remuneration Committee and a member of its Audit Committee since February 2012. In May 2018, Ms. Garahy was named as the Senior Independent Director at Kerry Group plc. She is as a member of the board of directors of ICON plc (NASDAQ:ICLR) appointed in November 2017 and is Chair of the Compensation & Organisation Committee and a member of the Nominations committee. In August 2020 she was appointed to the Board of ipb Insurance clg and she has also served as a director of a number of private companies and is a non-executive director of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (charity).

Formerly Ms. Garahy was founder and Managing Director of ClearView Investments & Pensions Limited, an independent financial advisory company, which was acquired in July 2020. Ms. Garahy has more than 30 years of experience advising on and managing investment funds. She was a founder and former Managing Director of HBCL Investments & Pensions and former Director of Investments at HC Financial Services. Prior to that, Ms. Garahy worked with the National Treasury Management Agency as Head of Research at the National Pension Reserve Fund and was also Head of Research with Hibernian Investment Managers (now Aviva Investors). In her early career, she spent 10 years as a stockbroker with both Goodbody Stockbrokers and NCB in Dublin.

Ms. Garahy is a Qualified Financial Advisor and a registered stockbroker. She has an Honours Bachelor of Science and is a Master of Science graduate. She holds a C.Dip in Accounting & Finance (ACCA).