Shruthi Chindalur is an established Non-Executive Director with experience spanning regulated, listed, private equity–backed and charitable organisations. Throughout her executive career, she focused on leadership roles at major technology companies such as LinkedIn, Oracle and Criteo - a founder-led AI based digital advertising company.  Resident in Ireland, Ms. Chindalur currently holds directorship roles with three LSE listed companies, Pinewood Technologies Plc, Kainos Group Plc and Bytes Technology Group Plc.

Brian Fagan joined the Company as Finance Director in April 2021 and was appointed CFO in April 2022. Mr. Fagan has significant international property development experience, having spent seven years as chief financial officer of Island Capital an international real estate oriented investment company and sixteen years as group finance director of Ballymore Group, an international property development and investment group with operations in Ireland, the United Kingdom and continental Europe. 

Prior to that, Mr. Fagan worked for DCC plc and as Finance Director for Flogas plc. Mr. Fagan also has experience in the regulated funds sector having previously held Central Bank of Ireland approved roles.

Eddie Byrne was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and Board Director in April 2024. Mr Byrne brings a wealth of experience at executive level in the real estate sector having worked in the industry for 25 years, most recently as Joint Managing Partner at Quintain Developments Ireland, where he co-established the Irish business, growing it into one of Ireland largest home builders over a four-year period to the end of 2023.

Hugh Scott-Barrett was until 23 February 2024 a non-executive Director and Senior Independent Director on the Board of Balanced Commercial Property Trust Limited, a UK REIT listed on the London Stock Exchange. Hugh has experience at board level for over 20 years across real estate, asset management, and banking. He was previously Non-Executive Chair at the UK specialist property REIT Capital & Regional plc until May 2020 and previously served as Chief Executive of the company prior to this from 2008-2017. He was previously a member of ABN AMRO’s managing board serving as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer and before that worked at SBC Warburg and Kleinwort Benson.

Stefanie Frensch is a member of the Management Board of Becker & Kries Holding, a German family office with significant real estate investments including 6,000 residential units and approx. 350k sqm commercial space. Prior to May 2021, she had been a member of the Supervisory Board of Alstria Office REIT for 5 years, an investment trust listed in MDAX. She also serves as a Director of a number of associations, including ZIA (the leading professional association of the German real estate sector), ICG (Institut für Corporate Governance) and is a Non-Executive Director of Förderverein Berlinische Galerie, the sponsoring association of a Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture in Berlin (voluntary work). 

She is member of the supervisory board of the Berlin Zoo (Zoologischer Garten) (voluntary work) Stefanie Frensch was formerly a member of the Management Board of HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH, one of the largest German publicly owned residential companies with more than 63,000 apartments and relevant development and transaction activities (2011 - 2019). 

She was a partner of EY Real Estate (2007-2011) and has expertise in project management and development, asset management and transaction advisory services. Ms. Frensch is an Engineer and Architect.

Gary Britton, is a Chartered Accountant, was a partner in KPMG and Head of the firm’s audit practice. He brings extensive commercial and governance experience to the Board having held non-executive director roles in KBC Bank Ireland plc, The Irish Stock Exchange plc, Cairn Homes plc and, most recently as Chair of Origin Enterprises. His roles included Board Chair, Senior Independent Director, Audit and Risk Committee Chair, Nominations and Governance Committee Chair and Remuneration Committee member. 

Ms Turner is an experienced property professional with deep industry expertise, bringing extensive experience across property acquisition, investments, valuations, rent reviews and asset sales. 

Ms Turner was Head of Asset Management Ireland at Kanam Grund REAM, a privately managed, German based real estate investment specialist with current assets under management in excess of €6 billion. Prior to this, Ms Turner worked with Savills Ireland from 1993 to 2013 starting as a graduate and progressing to become a Director of Savills Commercial (Ireland) Limited in 2002. 

Ms Turner is a Member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the UK.

Tom Kavanagh is a former partner at Deloitte Ireland and left the firm on 31 December 2018. Mr. Kavanagh has wide-ranging experience in professional practice as a business adviser, corporate restructuring expert and insolvency practitioner. This has included, over the last 10 years, advising on the restructuring of distressed Irish property assets. In addition he was appointed to the Professional Game Board in Leinster Rugby in September 2021.

Mr. Kavanagh has served as a director on the boards of a number of private companies and was a member of the board of the Credit Union Restructuring Board, REBO, from 2012 to 2014. Mr. Kavanagh holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin.

He is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland (FCA) since having qualified in 1982. Mr Kavanagh’s executive education includes a course in Harvard Business School/ IESE on Value Creation through Effective Boards in 2019 and a course in the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership in 2020.
 

Eddie Byrne is the Chief Executive Officer and a Board Director of Irish Residential Properties REIT Plc (I-RES), the leading provider of professionally-managed private residential rental accommodation in Ireland.

Eddie has over 20 years’ experience at executive level in the real estate sector. Most recently, he was Joint Managing Partner at Quintain Developments Ireland, one of Ireland’s largest residential real estate developers, where he co-established the Irish operation that achieved over 5,000 planning permissions, built and sold c. 1,500 rental and private homes, and raised a significant amount of growth capital. 

He was previously Managing Director at Hudson Advisors Ireland, where he oversaw several billion euro of acquisitions and disposals of real estate assets in Ireland. He was also Chief Portfolio Officer at Netherlands based Propertize where he had responsibility for a large property portfolio across the Benelux countries and before that, worked in real estate, banking, and capital markets in North America.