Board Members

Fiona Ross is an experienced public and private sector Chair and Non-Executive Director, having served on 17 Boards in Ireland and the UK over the past ten years.
·     In June 2021 Fiona was re-appointed by the Government to Chair Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ).
·     Fiona was appointed Chairperson of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) 2021.
·     Fiona was a member of the Board of the HSE where she served on the HSE audit and risk committee.
·     In the UK Fiona serves as a Non-Executive Director at The Scottish Government and in May 2020 Fiona was appointed by the UK Government to serve on the Board of Network Rail.
·     Fiona also has Central Bank of Ireland authorisation and serves as a non-executive director at JK Funds, Tilney Smith, and Williamson Europe where she chairs the Audit and Risk committee and SphereInvest.
Fiona began her career as a stockbroker in the City of London and spent 25 years working in all areas within Capital Markets in Dublin, London, Eastern Europe, and the United States.
In 2010, Fiona was appointed by the Minister for Arts to run Ireland’s National Library. Subsequently, Fiona continued her interest in the Arts and joined the Heaney family as a Non-Executive Director of the Heaney literary estate.
In 2012 Fiona was awarded a fellowship in Governance at George Washington University in the United States.

Frank Allen was reappointed to the Board of CIÉ and as Chairperson of Iarnród Éireann, in 2020.
He is an independent financial consultant, advising on infrastructure investment and operations, mostly in developing and transition economies. He chairs the board of Corre Energy b.v., a renewable energy company listed on Euronext Dublin, and is Treasurer of Depaul Housing, which provides accommodation and other support for people who have experienced homelessness. He was Chief Executive of the Railway Procurement Agency, which implemented Luas, from 2002 to 2012.
 
Frank is a graduate of University College Cork and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously worked for the World Bank Group in Washington DC and in Eastern Europe and was head of Infrastructure Finance for KBC Bank in the International Financial Services Centre, Dublin.

James (Jimmy) Doran was appointed to the CIÉ Board in December 2021 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts 1977 to 2001.
Jimmy completed his electrical apprenticeship with CIÉ from 1980-84 and then having worked on the building sites of London for six years he returned to work as an electrician for Bus Átha Cliath in Clontarf Garage in 1991 where he has remained since.
Jimmy was elected as a shop steward in 1993 and has been on the Bus Átha Cliath Negotiating Committee since then. He is a member of the Connect Trade Union National Executive Committee, the chair of its National Transport Consultative Committee, and represents the union on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ (ICTU) Health and Safety Committee and the ICTU Transport Group. Working in public transport is a family tradition for three generations of Dorans as is trade union activism, his namesake and Grandfather being a founder member of Connect trade union’s predecessor the IES&FTU in 1920.

Brian Fitzpatrick is an accountant and experienced financial professional. Prior to joining the CIÉ Board he was Finance Director and Company Secretary of BAM Contractors Ltd., the country’s largest civil engineering and construction company and he continues to be a Non‐Executive Director of that company. He spent the early part of his career in the financial services sector as Financial Controller of First National Building Society which then became First Active Plc. He is also currently a Director of the Housing Finance Agency which is the State Body charged with the financing of Local Authorities and Approved Housing Bodies in the provision of social and affordable housing and is permanent Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Stephen Hannan was re-appointed to the CIÉ Board in December 2021 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts 1977 to 2001. He works as a bus driver based in Ringsend Garage. He is a member of SIPTU and has held a wide variety of positions within the trade union for over 30 years: President of the Bus Drivers Committee; Vice-Chairman of the Transport Sector Committee; the Divisional Committee, Depot Representative to name but a few.
 

Dermot was appointed to the CIÉ Board in December 2021.
He is employed as a bus driver with Bus Éireann based at Roxboro Depot in Limerick. He joined CIÉ  in 1983 as a junior dining car attendant before moving to the Road Passenger Section the following year taking up such roles as Office Assistant and Bus Conductor prior to his current position as a driver since 1991.
He has been active in his union, the NBRU, since 1997 when he was first elected to his local branch committee. He served as both Vice-chairman and Chairman of the Limerick Branch prior to being elected to the National Executive Council in 1999. As a member of the NBRU National Negotiating Team. He has extensive experience in Industrial Relations issues including several WRC negotiations and Labour Court hearings.
 

Miriam was appointed to the Board of CIÉ on 26^th April 2022. She is a Chartered Director from the IOD, Independent Strategic business consultant and a Non-Executive Director.
Miriam is a former Chief Executive of one of Ireland’s largest communications groups, DDFH&B. During her 17 year tenure at DDFH&B she managed numerous acquisitions, new business models and more recently navigated the reorganisation of the business to create the merger with Target McConnells to form a new communications company called JWT folk. DDFH&B was 75% locally owned and specialised in Advertising, Digital content, Reputation management, Experiental events and Brand PR.
Miriam also has over 15 years’ experience in senior client marketing roles in a number of blue-chip companies. She is an ex Marketing Director of Nestle, ex Head of communications for Bank of Ireland and held other marketing roles at Smith & Nephew and AIB.
Miriam is currently the chairman of Barnardos Ireland Board, is a Mentor on the Enterprise Ireland Panel, the Chairman of Bus Eireann and a strategic consultant to a number of small businesses.
Miriam is a graduate of UCD and holds a BComm and MBS in Marketing. She is a past president of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, past Chairman of the Advertisers Association of Ireland, past council member of Dublin Chamber, past board member of the Irish Hospice Foundation and a current council member for the IMI.
 

Niamh O’Regan was appointed to the CIÉ Board on 16 April 2019 and she is Chair of the CIÉ Board Finance and Investment Committee.
Niamh is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, having trained with PWC. She holds a B.A. (Hons) degree in French and Spanish from Trinity College Dublin, a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting from Dublin City University and a specialist Diploma in Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit from Chartered Accountants Ireland. Niamh has over 25 years of experience predominantly in Financial Services and Health industries. Niamh’s professional experience includes roles in Barclays Bank London as Head of Business Performance and in Barclays Bank Ireland as Head of Business Management. 
Niamh is an Independent Non-Executive Director of ALD RE DAC where she is Chair of the Board Risk Committee. She is an Authority Member of the Property Registration Authority of Ireland and she is an External Member of the Audit Committee of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland.

Liam O’Rourke was re-appointed to the Board of CIÉ in September 2021. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland (FCPA). He has held senior executive positions with US multinational manufacturing companies for over 30 years and has extensive experience in finance, HR and ICT. He was previously the Finance Director/Controller of Champion Spark Plug Company and is currently the Internal Auditor with the Irish Wheelchair Association. Liam is the Chair of the CIÉ Audit and Risk Committee.

Fiona was appointed to the Board of CIÉ in April 2019. Fiona is an investment professional with 30 years’ experience in the asset management industry. She has held executive and board roles in leading Irish investment firms including AIB Investment Managers, Prescient Ireland and Davy over the past 18 years. In these roles she has been responsible for the development, communication and implementation of effective business strategies. She has an in depth knowledge of pensions and investment markets and has significant experience in corporate governance and compliance. Fiona holds Undergraduate and Masters Degrees in Economics from University College Dublin and the Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors.

Tommy Wynne was re-appointed to the CIÉ Board in December 2021 under the Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Acts, 1977 to 2001. He joined Iarnród Éireann as a depot man in 1991 and became a train driver in 1994. Tommy holds a Higher Diploma in International Railway Operations from Glasgow Caledonia University. He is currently President of the SIPTU TEAC Division and Chairman of the Transport Sector in SIPTU.