IRISH FIRM APPOINTS EX-PM TO ITS MANAGEMENT BOARD

Date Added: Sep 15, 2008

Author: Manager Real Estates Directory

Category: Europe real estates: Real Estates in Ireland

Irish-based overseas mixed-use developer Parker Green has appointed several high profile former political and industry leaders to its management team to strengthen the company’s worldwide portfolio and business outlook.

Chairman Dr Gerard O’Hare, who founded Parker Green in 1996, explained that the new board would strengthen the company’s worldwide standing as it looks to internationalise its operations.

“With investments and developments throughout Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the United States, the UK, and Ireland, we needed a board that would reflect our global approach more fully,” he said. “Our new International Advisory Board lets us do that.”

Ex-Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, will be among the members of the new board, which convened for its inaugural meetings in Malta in early September.

The Board also boasts two members of the UK House of Lords – Lord Alf Dubs, a Labour party politician who is an expert on Eastern European accession to the EU and an experienced representative of the voluntary sector, and Lord Dennis Rogan, a prominent crossbench peer and businessman with experience in African and Asian markets and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party in the Lords.

Other members of the Board include Harvard University’s Prof Richard Peiser, an expert in real estate development and urban planning; Michael Gibbons, a senior executive with French bank BNP Paribas; and Gregory Tosko, a Vice-Chairman of property services firm CB Richard Ellis in New York.

Explaining why O’Hare chose Malta for the new board’s first round of meetings, he added: “We wanted to choose a host country that clearly represents ‘internationalism’. Malta seemed the ideal location for that and the country has such a strong business and trade reputation too – it really conveys all the messages we wanted. We are also looking at the possibility of investment opportunities for Parker Green in Malta, depending on the outcome of our meetings.”

Source: www.opp.org.uk