Michael Dowling to succeed Denis Buckley as chairman of the Kerry Group

Asia-Pacific fastest growing region for Kerry Group

Asia-Pacific fastest growing region for Kerry Group

Michael Dowling has today been appointed chairman designate at Kerry Group to succeed Denis Buckley, who is retiring from the board at the end of the year.

Buckley has been chairman of the group for the last 11 years and a director since 1986.
 
Dowling was appointed to the board in 1998 and chaired its audit committee from January 2000 until February 2013. He is a former secretary general of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. A director of a number of private companies, he is chairman of the board of management of UCC/Teagasc Food Innovation Alliance and a visiting professor, dealing with agri-food policy, in the department of food business at the National University of Ireland, Cork.
 
Dowling will step down from the audit committee at the end of the year and will be succeeded in this role by Dr Hugh Brady, who was appointed to the board in February 2014.
 
The board has also co-opted Dr Karin Dorrepaal as a non-executive director. Dorrepaal has held a number of international business leadership roles and currently serves as a member of the Triton Private Equity Industry board in Frankfurt and is on the supervisory boards of Gerresheimer AG (Germany), Grontmij NV (the Netherlands) and Almirall SA (Spain)). She is also vice chairman of the Paion AG (Germany) supervisory board. She received her PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam and also has an MBA from the Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Management.

Grainne Rothery