Directors


Board of Directors

  • Deirdre Collier

    Ms Deirdre Collier (Chief Executive Officer)

    Deirdre is a respected Chief Finance Officer and Banking & Finance senior executive with 25 years’ experience in the Financial Services sector. Having previously served as a Non-Executive Director with the Housing Finance Agency from May 2022 to May 2023, her most recent role was as Chief Finance Officer of Clúid Housing. Previously she was Head of Commercial Real Estate and Large Corporates at KBC Bank Ireland plc. Deirdre is a Chartered Accountant (FCA), holds an MBA from UCD and a Diploma in Corporate Governance from the Institute of Directors.


  • Frank Allen

    Mr Frank Allen (Chairperson)

    Frank was appointed as a non-executive Board member in May 2022. He is Chairperson of the Credit Committee and a member of the Organisational Performance and Development Committee. Frank has worked in infrastructure finance and operations over many years and now advises the World Bank and Governments in developing countries on public transport investment. He is chair of Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company (Translink) and was chair of Iarnród Éireann (2017-2023). He was chief executive of the Railway Procurement Agency from 2002 to 2012 during the implementation of Luas, and previously head of infrastructure finance at KBC Bank. He began his career with the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group. He has a long-standing commitment to social housing and chaired the boards of Depaul Ireland and Depaul Housing Association.


  • Laura Behan

    Ms. Laura Behan (Non-Executive Director)

    Laura is a career civil servant with a breadth of policy experience across a range of Government departments, including most pertinently financing of infrastructure investment, economic evaluation and housing policy. With a B.Comm (International) from UCD, she has worked in the Department of Finance, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Environment and Local Government, Department of Transport and is currently the Head of the Affordable Housing – Local Authority and Land Development Agency Delivery Unit in the Department of Housing.


  • Ms. Sinéad Carr

    Ms. Sinéad Carr

    Sinéad was appointed Chief Executive of Tipperary County Council in July 2024. She has held the position of Director of Services for a number of different portfolios over a 20 year period, including as a Director of Community and Enterprise in Wicklow, Director of Housing with South Tipperary County Council, Director of Planning, Community and Enterprise and as a Director of Community, Enterprise, Economic and Tourism Development with the newly merged Tipperary County Council. She previously held the position of Director of Services for Housing Delivery for TCC and managed Clonmel Borough Council. She has fulfilled the role as Senior Executive Planner with Wicklow County Council and has a Masters Degree in Regional and Urban Planning.


  • Mr. Aidan Devlin

    Mr. Aidan Devlin

    Aidan is a Chartered Accountant and UCC Commerce graduate with over 40 years’ experience in Financial Services, Project Finance and Asset Management both in Ireland and the Middle East. Now retired having previously held senior positions with KBC Bank Ireland plc and National Asset Management Agency, Aidan is currently a board member of The National Maternity Hospital and until recently a board member of Oaklee Housing.


  • Mr Tom Enright

    Mr Tom Enright

    Tom was appointed to the Board in May 2022. Tom is the County and City Management Association (CCMA) nominee to the Board. He graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from University College Cork and has obtained a M.Sc. in Engineering from Cranfield University in the UK and a Masters in Business Administration from DCU. His roles include Chief Executive of Wexford County Council, Director of the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA), Chair of the LGMA Change Management Committee, Director of Waterford Airport Company since 2015, Director of the Wexford Arts Centre Company since 2014.


  • Shauna Greely

    Ms Shauna Greely

    Shauna is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience in the Banking & Financial Services sector, most recently having worked in senior Finance and Strategy roles at Ulster Bank Group. Shauna is a Past President of Chartered Accountants Ireland (2017 / 2018), is a past Council member and was a member of and Chair of a number of committees at Chartered Accountants Ireland. Shauna is a currently a board member of Accountancy Europe, a representative body for the Accountancy Profession based in Brussels. She was a member of the Audit & Risk Committee of the NSSO and is past Chair and Board member of Accounting Technicians Ireland. Shauna recently completed the Chartered Director Programme with the Institute of Directors in Ireland, has an Advanced Diploma in Banking Risk Management awarded by UCD and a BBS from Trinity College Dublin.


  • Mr Michael Lee

    Mr Michael Lee

    Michael was appointed to the Board in May 2022. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant with experience in financial management and investments. Michael currently works as the Head of Investment Strategy and Origination at Reverence Capital Partners, a US private equity and credit investment firm. Previously Michael worked at FPG Amentum, a Dublin based aircraft lessor, as Senior Vice President Investor Markets. Michael also worked as the Deputy Director at the Irish Strategic Investment Fund with the National Treasury Management Agency. Michael worked at Goldman Sachs for 17 years in a variety of roles in the Investment Banking Division in New York where he was most recently responsible for the Investment Idea Generation Function and Sydney, where he was Head of the Financial Sponsors Group. Michael has also worked on a number of large government asset privatisation transactions in Japan and Australia.


  • James Lidierth

    Mr. James Lidierth (Non-Executive Director)

    James Lidierth is an experienced corporate banking professional with extensive credit risk, customer management and internal audit business experience. James has held roles such as Head of Internal Audit for Capital Markets & Credit Risk at AIB Bank plc, Head of Credit Risk for Commercial Banking at Ulster Bank, previously a Director in Corporate Banking in Ulster Bank and also held various senior roles in Bank of Ireland. James is a graduate of UCD, Irish Management Institute and The Institute of Banking. James is an experienced non-executive director having previously served on the Council of the Institute of Banking and as a non-executive director of a major Irish pension fund.


  • Mr Thomas McDermott

    Mr Thomas McDermott

    Thomas was appointed to the Board in May 2022. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He later worked in London for Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland in the areas of Corporate Reporting, Risk Management and Talent Development. He has served as a Non-Executive Director and Treasurer of Network/Stadium Homes a large housing association in London and as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of Qualifications and Quality Assurance Authority of Ireland. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and holds a MSc in Economics from University College Dublin and a MSc in Sustainable Development from Technological University Dublin.


  • Mr. David Owens

    Mr. David Owens

    David currently works on sustainable and climate finance in the Department of Finance and was appointed to the Board in May 2022. He has extensive public service experience gained in Ireland and overseas including in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and in the European Commission. He has worked in financial services in the private sector and also in the Central Bank of Ireland and was previously appointed to serve on the Pensions Board.


  • Ms. Aleksandra Szczecinska

    Ms. Aleksandra Szczecinska

    Aleksandra is a Finance Director at Hattington Private Equity Group (Ireland and UK) with nearly 20 years of experience in the private equity sector, including CBI-registered regulated and unregulated property funds with residential, Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA), and commercial real estate investment portfolios. Most recently, Aleksandra served on the Audit, Assurance, and Finance (AAF) Committee for a Tier 3 Approved Housing Body, contributing expertise in financial compliance, governance, and strategic planning. A Fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (FCCA), she holds an MSc in Professional Accountancy and a triple-accredited MBA (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS) from the Open University.


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