LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Diarmuid Hogan

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ELCOME
AA warm Irish welcome to the 55th Anniversary Dinner of the Ireland-U.S.
Council. As President of the Council it is always a pleasant duty for me to
extend greetings to this annual occasion when we celebrate, on behalf of the
entire Council membership in the United States and throughout Ireland, the Council’s
continued engagement of our core mission.
This past year has seen much change in Ireland and in the United States. However,
from the vantage point we occupy in the Ireland-U.S. Council, I am happy to report that
the business bonds and commercial connections between America and Ireland, North
and South, have never ever been stronger, deeper or more durable than they are now.
Brian W. Stack
It has been ten long years since the calamitous real estate crash which precipitated a financial industry
cataclysm that was especially brutal and harsh in Ireland. What a difference can be made in a decade with
careful, smart, energetic and prudent managing of a difficult economic problem.
Tonight the Ireland-U.S. Councilis delighted to hail, through our honoree Bernard Byrne, CEO of AIB
Group, the milestone return to financial health achieved by one of Ireland’s largest banking groups. The sale
into private hands of a large chunk of AIB Group stock ownership by Ireland’s Government marks a true
watershed event. With the benefit of hindsight we can clearly see the wisdom of the Government in Dublin
in rescuing Ireland’s banking system ten years ago. It stands as testimony to the faith which people in Ireland
have in the system of free enterprise.
I must always underline how thankful we are for the support and participation received during this past year
from Council members and from so many benefactors, patrons and sponsors. The encouragement, assistance
and support you have offered has been most heartening. It has also been essential in helping us to sustain the
organization’s roster of programs and activities during this past year.
Because of your support, we have been enabled to continue to engage the core mission of the organization
in meaningful ways. In working to enhance and strengthen those important business bonds and commercial
connections between the United States and Ireland, we hope to make a worthwhile contribution to the
betterment of the economic circumstances of all the people in the United States and in Ireland, north and
south. Improved and expanded investment, trade and tourism in both directions between America and
Ireland is not a zero-sum game – it betters the lives, livelihoods and economic circumstances of everybody.
The very important business links that connect America and Ireland in capital investment, trade, tourism,
technology transfer and so much more have flourished during this past year. These are tangible and resilient
connections that require smart attention and careful nurturing. Our hope is that in the coming year, we in the
Ireland-U.S. Council can assist the process of strengthening and expanding these bonds that bind America
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Brian W. Stack
President
The Ireland-U.S. Council
Thursday November 9, 2017
New York City
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The Ireland - U.S. Council
at its 55th Annual Dinner
and join in congratulating
Bernard Byrne, Diarmuid Hogan, and Roy Adair
on receiving their awards
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T C ’ U.S. B
HE OUNCIL S OARD OF
Officers Directors
Michael Brewster
Managing Director -
President Investments
Brian W. Stack Brewster Financial Strategies
President Executive Director Group • Wells Fargo Advisors
Stack International David O’Sullivan (USA) LLC
National Secretary
National Treasurer James M. Adrian
Kieran Claffey Partner Michael Clark
Partner Adrian-Cassidy President
PwC, LLP & Associates Surmont, LLC.
Vice
Presidents
Niall Condon
John J. Reilly Vice-President
Michael J. Gibbons Partner Pharmaceutical
President-Emeritus Squire Patton Boggs Manufacturing Operations
The Ireland-U.S. Council (U.S.) Pfizer, Inc.
Diarmuid Hogan Cillian Ó Brádaigh Elizabeth Crabill
Chairman Executive Director Chief Executive Officer
Global Excess Partners, LLC Morgan Stanley CIE Tours International
Andrea T. Mills
Director Gerald C. Crotty
Fiscal Management President
Associates, LLC Weichert Enterprise, LLC
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Patricia A. Cunningham William Falvey Donard Gaynor
National Account Manager Sales Director - International Business
Leisure Sales Metro Atlantic Consultant and
United Airlines Diageo Guinness USA Non-Executive Director
Patrick J. Donaghy Mark Finlay Thomas J. Goodwin
Chairman President Partner
Favour Royal, Inc. ULV Americas, Inc. McCarter & English, LLP
William B. Finneran
John J. Doolan Chairman & Peter J. Hooper
Vice President Managing Director Director
Heineken USA EXOP Capital, LLC New Ireland Fund, Inc.
James J. Houlihan
Eddie Dowling John Fitzpatrick Partner
Chief Executive Chief Executive Houlihan-Parnes
The Padded Wagon Fitzpatrick Hotel Group Realtors, LLC
David Evans John J. Kelly
Managing Director - Jack Foley Managing Partner
North America Executive Vice President Hanover Stone Partners,
Canyon CTS Aer Lingus LLC
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U.S. B D
OARD OF IRECTORS
Barbara G. Koster
Senior Vice President & Martin Murphy
Chief Information Officer Partner
Prudential Financial, Inc. The Repton Group, LLP Dennis D. Swanson
John P. Nallen Maurice Wolridge
Chief Financial Officer Chairman
MacDara Lynch 21st Century Fox Alimentary Health, Inc.
Gerard P. McNamara
Global Managing Director
Information Officers Rhianna Quinn-Roddy
Practice Principal
Korn Ferry Tinderbrook Associates
Honorary
Director
Thomas J. Moran Carl Shanahan
Chairman President
Mutual of America Shamrock Building Services Patrick O’Neill
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T C ’ I C
HE OUNCIL S RELAND HAPTER
Chapter
President
Dr. Michael Somers
Deputy Chairman
AIB Group, plc
Chapter
Board
Members
Ron Adair Derek Collins
Chief Executive Senior Director Michael Greene
Belfast Harbour Bank of Ireland Of Counsel
Commissioners Corporate Banking A & L Goodbody
Frank Hayes
Clive Bellows Michael Donohoe Director of Corporate
Country Head Director Corporate Services Affairs
Northern Trust Ireland Colliers International Kerry Group
Roddy Feely Richard M. Henry
Brendan Cahill Executive Director Producer Broker
Partner Ireland-U.S. Council Lex Risk Solutions
William Fry, Solicitors Ireland Chapter Jatco Insurance Brokers
Michael Cannon Pat Gilroy Danny McCoy
Director Managing Director –Ireland Chief Executive
Cannon Kirk Homes Designer Group IBEC
Brian Goggin
Martina Coogan Past-President James O. McNally
Country Manager - Ireland Ireland Chapter Partner
United Airlines Ireland-U.S. Council PwC
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