Donal O’connor

Biography

Donal O’Connor has served as a director since October 21, 2015. Mr. O’Connor is the Chairman of Galco Steel ltd and Huttonread, and is a non-executive Director of Perrigo Company plc and a number of Irish private companies. He was a non-executive Director and member of the audit committee, leadership, development and compensation committee and transactions committee of Elan Corporation, plc, until it was acquired by Perrigo in December 2013. He was a non-executive Director, chairman of the audit committee and senior independent director of Readymix plc from December 2008 until May 2012. He was appointed by the Irish Government as Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank from December 2008 until June 2010. He was the Irish High Court appointed Administrator of Icarom plc from 1995 until February 2013. Mr. O’Connor was a member of the Board of the Irish Auditing and Accountancy Supervisory Authority from its inception as an Interim Board in 2001 until 2009. He was a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (“PwC”) Global Board from 2003 until 2008 and is a former Chairman of the PwC Eurofirms Board. Mr. O’Connor originally joined PwC in 1972 and was appointed partner in 1983. He was later appointed partner in charge of the PwC Financial Services practice in 1988 and leader of the Audit Practice in 1992. He was elected Senior Partner in 1994 and was re-elected in 1998 and 2003. He served as Senior Partner of PwC Ireland for over twelve years until June 2007. Mr. O’Connor obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. 

Research Interest

Biopharma