John McGowan is a Chartered Engineer and a former President of Engineers Ireland and of the Irish Academy of Engineers.

John worked with Jacobs International as project director on the EPCM of Intel’s Fab10. Thereafter he went to work for Intel Ireland, including four years as the Facility Manager on the Leixlip campus, before being appointed General Manager of Intel Ireland.

Three years into that role John was appointed to co-lead Intel’s global Corporate Services group, based in the USA, but with teams working on construction projects and facility management on all Intel Corp sites across the US, Central America, Europe, Israel, and on the sites of major investments in Asia, predominantly in China. Subsequently, John spent three years plus as MD of McNamara construction, before establishing his own consultancy. This was mostly based on non-executive appointments to the boards of engineering design and project management companies. The years in the second decade of the millennium saw these companies growing their turnover significantly, in a buoyant market, across the world.

Seán McCarthy’s impact on the Irish construction sector cannot be overstated. He has had a prolific career, with 40 years’ experience of successfully delivering extensive Programmes and major Projects with multinational corporations in the semiconductor, pharmaceutical and heavy chemical sectors, including having headed major construction projects at Intel and Eli Lily.

Notably, Seán worked on the Intel Ireland Leixlip Campus for over 20 years, and was the Site Manager of Projects and Construction with responsibility for leading and managing all project construction activity on the campus.

Seán now works with multiple clients as a consultant and mentor on Project Management & Leadership; Lean & IPD; and Quality & Safety.

Phelim Devine is the Project Director of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) since June 2019, and was formerly the Design Director/Deputy Project Director between January 2014 and June 2019. The NPHDB is responsible for the Design, Planning, Building and Equipping of the new children’s hospital and Family Accommodation Unit on the St James’s Hospital campus and two Paediatric Outpatient and Emergency/Urgent Care Centres on the Tallaght and Connolly Hospital campuses. The new children’s hospital represents the largest single capital investment in any healthcare capital project in Ireland.
Phelim’s role includes responsibility for the Project Delivery within an Executive Leadership team reporting to the Chief Officer and the Board. This responsibility includes the planning, design, construction, commissioning and equipping of the project facilities within agreed project governance that facilitates interfacing and reporting to the key project stakeholders and sponsors. Phelim leads a senior team of both internal and external construction, equipping and procurement professionals.

Before working with the NPHDB Phelim was a Director of global consultancy firm Arup where he led the design of medium to large multi-disciplinary building projects across multiple sectors in particular healthcare projects.

Phelim is a Chartered Engineer and a member of Engineers Ireland. He graduated with an honours degree in Engineering from Trinity College and obtained Higher Diplomas from Trinity College in Project Management and Construction Law and Contract Administration. Phelim held a number of roles within the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland and Engineers Ireland and represented the Association on a number of the construction industry committees.

Gerard Harvey is the Assistant Principal Architect at the Office of Public Works. The architectural practice within the Office of Public Works, delivers a service of quality through the skilful provision of a comprehensive architectural design service to the Government and other public bodies. The principle function of Architectural Services is to ensure that its clients are provided with design excellence, construction and support services that are of the highest standard in terms of quality,cost and programme.

Yvonne is a Civil Engineer and Project Manager at Mott MacDonald designing and project managing a wide variety of schemes from river works/flood management to water and wastewater structures and networks. She is also an IRCA registered Lead Auditor of management systems to facilitate compliance with ISO 9001 (Quality), OHSAS 45001 (H&S) and ISO 14001 (Environmental) standards.

Yvonne was an active member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Wales, serving on committee in various roles 2010-2022. She was appointed as a Trustee of Institution of Civil Engineers Council 2015-2018, Trustee of the Institution of Civil Engineers Benevolent Fund (2016-2018 and 2020-2022), Institution of Civil Engineers Wales Chair 2019-2021, and Institution of Civil Engineers Benevolent Fund Chair 2021.

Yvonne relocated back to her home country of Ireland in 2021. She continues to volunteer for ICE and was appointed Country Rep for the ICE Republic of Ireland. She is completing a part-time Executive MBA at the UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.