CRH announce appointment of chairman designate

Nicky Hartery to succeed current chairman Kieran McGowan who will retire after company’s AGM in May

The board of Dublin-based international building materials company CRH has this week appointed Nicky Hartery as chairman designate, to succeed current chairman Kieran McGowan.

Mr McGowan, who has been chairman since May 2007 and a board member since 1998, will retire after the company’s AGM on 9 May 2012.

Mr Hartery, who joined the board of CRH in 2004, was vice-president of manufacturing and business operations for Dell Inc.’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations from 2000 to 2008.

Prior to joining Dell he was executive vice-president at Eastman Kodak and previously held the position of president and chief executive officer at Verbatim Corp. in the US.

He is also currently chief executive of Prodigium, a consulting company which provides business advisory services, and a non-executive director of Musgrave Group plc, a privately owned international food retailer, and Eircom Ltd, a company which provides telecommunications services in Ireland.

Meanwhile, CRH have also announced the co-option to the board of Heather Ann McSharry as a non-executive director.

Ms McSharry is chairman of the board of Trustees of Bank of Ireland Pension Fund and is a director of Ergonomics Solutions International, IDA Ireland and the Institute of Directors.

She is a former managing director of Reckitt Benckiser and Boots Healthcare in Ireland, and was previously a director of Bank of Ireland and Enterprise Ireland.