Job Title: Partner

Company: Deloitte

Harry Goddard is the partner responsible for Deloitte’s Technology Integration practice; he also leads the firm’s Public Sector and Healthcare practice.  Harry joined from BearingPoint where he was head of their Irish Public Services Business.  Harry has many years experience leading the implementation of large scale IT Transformation projects including some of the largest eGovernment programmes in the country.  He has a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Limerick.

Job Title: Chief Technology Officer

Company: SAP Healthcare

Martin Kopp is Chief Technology Officer of the SAP Healthcare Sector. In this role he is driving technology and product decisions to create a sustainable and user friendly solution.

Martin joined SAP in 1995 as a consultant. After the implementation of SAP ERP Controlling in multiple hospital sites he was driving major healthcare implementations globally.

From 2003 to 2009 he was owning the healthcare solution portfolio for SAP globally. Martin studied business administration at the University of Nuremberg, Germany.

Job Title: Global Head of Healthcare

Company: Deloitte

Dean Arnold joined Strategy at Deloitte in 2004 to lead the development of the practice’s offering to the Healthcare and Life Sciences industries. Dean now leads the Government, Health and Life Sciences Strategy Practice in the UK as well as serves as Deloitte’s Global Head of Healthcare. During a career spanning over 20 years he has worked as a strategic advisor right across the sector, advising clients as diverse as health insurers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors, biotech start-ups, private equity as well as government policymakers.   As a result, the nature of Dean’s work has varied significantly from developing and implementing strategies for reconfiguring hospital and community services to advising on the use of newly developed genomic sequencing technologies. 

In 2003, Dean undertook an 18 month secondment to the Department of Health assisting with the development of national policy on the reconfiguration of health services and the role of the commercial sector in service reconfiguration through increased market contestability.  Dean has advised on over 30 health and social care-related corporate transactions over the past five years.  Dean is currently working with a number of PCTs and several SHAs on developing alternative innovative delivery models to facilitate shifts to lower cost, equivalent or better quality care.

Job Title: Director Healthcare, UK & Ireland

Company: Aramark

Kevin Holder has 18 years of general management experience in the healthcare sector.  Kevin joined ARAMARK from the Mount Carmel Medical Group where he was Chief Operating Officer for two years until 2008 and prior to this he had spent 14 years in the UK National Health Service, latterly as a CEO.

Job Title: Chairman

Company: Euromedic

Sean Eustace, Chairman, Euromedic Ireland

Job Title: Director in the Health and Care team

Company: Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG)

Petra Wilson is a director in the Health and Care team of Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Her work focuses on helping health and care providers develop their strategies and implementation plans to make good use of information management and technology in meeting the demands of health and care provision for an ageing society, where patients’ needs become wider and demands on health and care providers straddle many of the established silos of care organisation.

Prior to EHMA, Petra worked for theEuropean Commission in its eHealth Directorate. She worked specifically on the European eHealth Action Plan, which commits all member states of the European Union to adopt road maps for the implementation of Connected Health solutions. Petra also advised the Commission on legal and ethical issues surrounding use of information technologies in healthcare.

Alongside her role at Cisco Petra serves as a Governing Council Member of the Health Information Management and Systems Society in Europe, and holds the joint chairmanship of the Continua Health Alliance European Group, and in this role she sits also on the European Commission’s eHealth Industry Stakeholder Group. She also acts as an advisor to the Health on the Net Foundation advising on legal issues.

Job Title: TD, Minister for Health and Children

Company: Department of Health and Children

Mary Harney was appointed as Minister for Health and Children in September 2004, and reappointed following the 2007 General Election. Previously, she was Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 1997 to 2002 and was re-appointed in June 2002, making history as the first woman to hold the title of Tánaiste and also to serve a second successive term. She served as leader of the Progressive Democrats Party from 1993 to 2006.

She was Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 1997 to 2002. She was Minister of State at the Department of Environment with special responsibility for Environmental Protection 1989-1992. She was first elected to the Dáil in 1981 as a Fianna Fáil candidate.

Mary Harney was a founder member of the Progressive Democrats with Desmond O’Malley in 1985. In entering political life as a Senate nominee of then Taoiseach, Jack Lynch in August 1977, she became the youngest ever member of the Seanad. She had been a candidate in the 1977 general election in Dublin South-East, and was eventually elected to the Dail in 1981. She was a member of Dublin County Council (1979-1991) and Vice Chairperson of County Dublin Vocational Educational Committee (1985).

Job Title: Head of European Healthcare

Company: KPMG

Mark is a partner and Head of Healthcare, Europe & UK for advisory firm KPMG. Mark began his career as a fast streamer in the NHS and civil service in 1989. Mark has developed operational, strategic and policy expertise at every level of the NHS and Department of Health and sat on the NHS Management Board.  With over 20 years of health service experience, he became a partner of KPMG and Head of Healthcare for UK & Europe in October 2009. 

Mark operates mainly in the public and private healthcare sector advising government departments, agencies and healthcare organisations and ensuring that KPMG’s clients receive the best possible professional service.

Mark is a former Director-General for Commissioning and System Management for the National Health Service (NHS) of England. He held the position between July 2007 and September 2009. In 2006 he was appointed as chief executive of the South Central Strategic Health Authority.

From 2000 - 2006, he was chief executive at University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust where he worked for 9 years. He is a graduate of University of Warwick and during his time there was considered a student activist. He subsequently joined the fast-track Management Training Scheme for the NHS and received his postgraduate education at Warwick University Business School.

Job Title: CEO AND MD

Company: Sonic Healthcare

Dr Colin Goldschmidt is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Sonic Healthcare, a publicly listed Australian Top 50 company, and is also CEO of Sonic’s largest Australian subsidiary, Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology, based in Sydney.

Following his appointment to the position of CEO of Sonic Healthcare in 1993, Dr Goldschmidt has committed the Sonic Healthcare group to the maintenance of market leadership in pathology through the pursuit of professional excellence and staff satisfaction, under an overriding philosophy of “medical leadership”, in order to preserve the balancing needs of both health care professionals and shareholders. Dr Goldschmidt is a qualified medical doctor and histopathologist who currently devotes all his working time to company management.

During his tenure as CEO of Sonic Healthcare, Dr Goldschmidt has overseen the growth of the Sonic group from annual revenues of around A$30 million to more than A$3 billion in 2009. Over this time, Sonic Healthcare’s market capitalisation has risen from A$5 million to over A$5 billion. Under Dr Goldschmidt’s leadership, Sonic Healthcare has expanded beyond Australia to include pathology operations in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, the USA and New Zealand – approximately 65% of the company’s current revenues are sourced outside of Australia. Sonic Healthcare employs over 22,000 people around the world and has successfully integrated approximately 80 separate diagnostic practices into the group’s structure, culture and operational setting. Sonic Healthcare is the market leader in Australia, Germany, the independent UK pathology sector and in Europe and is also the third largest laboratory operator in the USA.

Job Title: MD, FACC, HEAD OF INNOVATION AND CARDIOLOGIST

Company: Cleveland Clinic

Brian P. Griffin, MD, FACC, is a staff cardiologist in the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging in the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic where he has worked since 1993 . He is currently the holder of the John and Rosemary Brown Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic.

Cleveland Clinic is the busiest cardiovascular disease program in the U.S and has been named by the US News and World Reports as the top institution for cardiovascular care for more than 15 years. Dr Griffin was Vice Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic from 2003-6 and now is Physician Director, Development at Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute. He has been instrumental in forging ties between medical educational institutions in Ireland and Cleveland Clinic and in promoting opportunities for Irish biomedical companies in Cleveland.

After receiving his medical degree from the National University of Ireland in Galway in 1979, Dr. Griffin completed in medicine training at University College Hospital in Galway and St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. He trained in cardiology at the Mater Hospital Dublin before proceeding to further training at Guy's Hospital, London. He pursued further training in cardiovascular medicine in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Boston University Medical Center, and he completed a fellowship in cardiac ultrasound at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Board-certified in internal medicine with a subspecialty in cardiovascular diseases, Dr. Griffin is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He also is a member of numerous national and international professional societies including the American Society of Echocardiography, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and the Council of Clinical Cardiology for the American Heart Association.

Dr Griffin is Director of The Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Training program at Cleveland Clinic (the largest in the US), is the past Chair of the Laennec Committee of American Heart Association, a member of the Workforce Taskforce of American College of Cardiology, and is the U.S. Editor of Heart, the official Journal of the British Cardiac Society. He is Editor of the "Manual of Cardiovascular Medicine," a widely used handbook that is written by staff and fellows of Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Medicine. He has published widely on valve disease and cardiac imaging.

Job Title: National Director, HSE

Company: Health Service Executive

Brian is National Director for Commercial and Support Services with the HSE.

Job Title: CEO

Company: National Treatment Purchase Fund

Pat O’Byrne was appointed Chief Executive of the NTPF on its establishment in 2002.  Since then, the NTPF has arranged faster treatment for more than 165,000 public patients and average waiting times for in-patient operations have fallen from two to five years then to 2.4 months today.  Prior to joining the NTPF, Pat O’Byrne worked at the Department of Health in a number of areas.

Job Title: Chief Medical Officer

Company: Department of Health and Children

Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health and Children in Ireland

Dr Holohan was appointed to his current position in the Department of Health and Children in 2009 and has worked extensively on policy development in areas such as cancer control, prevention, primary care, health information, health technology assessment.

He is a 1991 graduate of the Medical School at University College Dublin. He trained initially in general practice and subsequently in public health medicine.

Job Title: CEO

Company: Mater Private Hospital

Fergus began his career in the insurance industry where he specialised in hospital and medical malpractice insurance.  He became a Director of one of the largest global insurance broking firms and was responsible for the establishment and growth of its European healthcare practice.

Fergus subsequently established Circa Healthcare Consulting.  Circa quickly became the leading quality assurance and risk management consulting firm operating in the Irish health services.  Circa’s clients included the Department of Health & Children, many Health Boards, all of the Dublin Academic Teaching Hospitals and most of Ireland’s private hospitals.

Circa Healthcare Consulting was bought by the global insurance group Aon in 2004, thus creating Aon Healthcare, which as a result is the recognised market leader in healthcare insurance and risk management services.

Following the sale of Circa Fergus joined Mater Private Healthcare and took over as Group Chief Executive in early 2006.  In 2007 he led an MBO backed by CapVest, a London based private equity firm.

Fergus is currently Chairman of the Independent Hospital Association of Ireland (IHAI).  IHAI is the national representative body of private hospitals.  He is also a Ministerial Appointee to the Implementation Body of the Commission on Patient Safety & Quality Assurance.  He is a member of the Advisory Panel on Healthcare Standards of the Health Information & Quality Authority.

In addition to his healthcare interests Fergus is a Non-Executive Director of RSA Insurance Ireland (formerly Royal & Sun Alliance) and is involved in a number of charitable initiatives.

Job Title: Group Chief Executive

Company: St Vincent’s Healthcare Group

Mr. Jermyn is the Group Chief Executive and Director of St Vincent’s Healthcare Group incorporating
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, St. Vincent’s Private Hospital and St. Michael’s Hospital.  Previous to this, he was Chief Executive in a number of hospitals namely, St Vincent’s University Hospital, one of the hospitals under the Healthcare Group and is one of the largest major Academic front-line Acute Voluntary Hospitals in Ireland; St Luke’s/St Anne’s Hospital (the Radiotherapy Treatment Centre in Ireland for Cancer sufferers); and Adelaide and Meath Hospitals incorporating the National Children’s Hospital.

Mr. Jermyn is currently employed by St. Vincent's Healthcare Group Ltd., which is owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity. The Group currently incorporates St. Vincent's University Hospital, St. Vincent's Private Hospital and St. Michael's Hospital Dun Laoghaire.

The Group employs 3,500 staff and has in excess of 1,000 beds, which includes 40 critical care/intensive care beds. The turnover annually is €350m, the current capital budget is €300m and the asset base of the group is in excess of €500m. On an annual basis the Group has approximately 100,000 admissions, 300,000 outpatients attendances, and 55,000 A&E visits. The Group also has in excess of 50 medical surgical sub specialities.

Mr. Jermyn’s career started having left school in the mid 70's and attended Rathmines College of commerce were he studied business and accounting.  He was in the commercial and banking sector for a number of years, were he completed his studies at night before moving in to the health sector in 1982.  He also holds an M.Sc in Management Practice from Trinity College Dublin.

He has chaired and been involved in numerous national initiatives and special advisory forums within the health sector over the years.

He is keenly interested in protecting and ensuring that the vision of voluntarism within the health services is maintained in Ireland and that patient care is at the forefront.  He is particularly interested in quality improvement and the management of risk in the health sector.

He is married to Bernie and has two children, Jessica aged 19 and Adam aged 17. Interests outside work are obviously his family, trying to keep fit and he is still actively involved in a range of sports.
 

Job Title: Head of the Centre of Innovation in Surgical Technology

Company: Royal College of Surgeons

Derek Young has a background in Mechanical Engineering “A Eng”, Surgical Innovation and Business Development from the Austin Waldron and Dublin Institute of Technology.

Derek began his career as a design engineer in the automotive industry working for a German/Austrian company called Aluteam which supplied extrusions to VW, Porsche and Ferrari.  He then moved into a state owned company called Board Na Mona acquiring and redesigning Energy and Bio technology from Russia and China.  Moving from the corporate and state sectors he has been involved in a number of Medical Device startups which has gained him experience across a range of surgical specialties including General Surgery, Vascular and Cardiac Surgery, Orthopaedics, Urology, Gynecology, Surgical Simulation and Robotics. He has obtained this experience over a 16 year period.

Derek’s role in each of the startups involved ideas generating, raising funds from VC groups, M&A activity, Licence & Contract deals with TFX Medical, Applied Medical, Ethicon Endo Surgery, Covidien and Cardinal Health.  During this period Derek has been named on 32 patents and has 6 publications all in surgery. Derek also holds a number of board positions on medical device companies and Medical Research Groups at a national and international level.

As Head of the Centre of Innovation in Surgical Technology at RCSI, Derek is responsible for the operations of CIST which ensures new ideas move from concept to market through commercial partnerships. Ideas are sourced from Surgeons, Innovation Centers, multispecialty and multidisciplinary surgical and clinical groups on a national and international basis. Derek in his role has established innovation and development partnerships with the Cleveland Clinic USA, Tyndall institute IRL and a number of medical device companies in Ireland and Worldwide.  He also provides support to the Center for Clinical R&D in the development of device trials and the management of the Innovation Programme in the National Surgical Training Centre and Medical School.  
 

Job Title: Journalist, Writer, Broadcaster

Company: Health Policy Analyst

Sara Burke is a health policy analyst, journalist, writer and broadcaster.  Her book on the Irish health system called ‘Irish Apartheid. Healthcare Inequality in Ireland’ which was published in June 2009.

Sara has a weekly health slot on RTE Radio 1’s Drivetime programme and regularly publishes articles in the national print media. She is in year two of a PhD in health policy.

She worked in public health policy full time between 1997 and 2004. From 1992 to 1997, she worked for Focus as an outreach worker with homeless teenagers in Dublin.