About us
Board of Directors
The role of the Board is to provide effective leadership and oversight of I-RES, set the strategic objectives for the Company and determine the nature and extent of the principal risks it is willing to take in achieving these strategic objectives.
The Board is collectively responsible for the long-term sustainable success of the Company and delivery of value for its shareholders and other principal stakeholders, including employees, residents, lenders and suppliers. The Board leads the development of the culture, purpose, values and strategy in I-RES and aims to ensure that these are aligned.
The Board is responsible for I-RES’ dividend policy, corporate governance, approval of financial statements and shareholder documents and formulating, monitoring and reviewing the effectiveness of the Group’s risk management and internal control systems. The Board also seeks to ensure that its obligations towards its shareholders and other stakeholders are understood and met.
The Board is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of financial and business information provided to shareholders and for ensuring that such information presents a fair, balanced and understandable assessment of the Company’s position and prospects.
There is a clear division of responsibilities within I-RES between the Board and the Senior Leadership Team. Responsibility for day-to-day running of I-RES operations is delegated by the Board to the CEO, CFO and Senior Leadership Team, with the Board reserving to itself a formal schedule of matters over which it retains control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Corporate Governance
The Company’s corporate governance practices are governed by the relevant requirements and procedures prescribed by the UK Corporate Governance Code and the Irish Corporate Governance Annex to the UK Corporate Governance Code.
The Board is supported by its four principal Board Committees in discharging its duties. At each Board meeting, the Chair of each of these Committees provides an update on their committee’s activities. The duties and responsibilities of each of these Committees are set out clearly in written terms of reference which are approved by the Board and published on the Company’s website.
These terms of reference were reviewed and updated in November 2025.
Committees
This Committee is responsible for monitoring the integrity of the financial statements of the Company, including its annual and half-yearly reports, preliminary announcements and any other formal statements relating to its financial performance, and reviews and reports to the Board on significant financial reporting issues and judgements which those statements contain. The Committee is also responsible for reviewing the Group’s risk framework and internal controls and maintaining the auditor relationship.
| Member: | |
|---|---|
Tom Kavanagh | Committee Chair & Senior Independent Director |
Denise Turner | Independent Non - Executive Director |
Stefanie Frensch | Independent Non - Executive Director |
Gary Britton | Independent Non - Executive Director |
Shruthi Chindalur | Independent Non - Executive Director |
Audit and Risk Committee - Terms of Reference - Feb 2026 (iresreit.ie)
This Committee is responsible for the remuneration policy, performance-linked pay schemes and share-based incentive plans.
The Committee has delegated responsibility for determining the policy for Directors’ remuneration and setting remuneration for the Company’s Chair and Executive Directors and senior management, including the Company Secretary, in accordance with the Principles and Provisions of the Code.
| Member | |
|---|---|
Denise Turner | Committee Chair |
Hugh Scott-Barrett | Independent Non - Executive Chair |
Shruthi Chindalur | Independent Non - Executive Director |
Remuneration Committee - Terms of Reference - Nov 2025 (iresreit.ie)
This Committee is responsible for regularly reviewing the structure, size and composition (including the skills, knowledge, experience and diversity) of the Board and making recommendations to the Board with regard to any changes, this includes proposing new Board appointments and monitoring the Board’s succession needs.
| Member: | |
|---|---|
Hugh Scott- Barrett | Committee Chair & Independent Non-Executive Chair |
Tom Kavanagh | Senior Independent Director & Independent Non-Executive Director |
Stefanie Frensch | Independent Non-Executive Director |
Nomination Committee - Terms of Reference - Nov 2025 (iresreit.ie)
This Committee is responsible for developing and recommending to the Board the Company’s ESG strategy and ensuring it remains fit for purpose, developing and recommending policies, risks, targets and investment required to achieve the Company’s ESG strategy as well as ensuring any ESG commitments are consistent with the Company’s business strategy and Code of Ethics, and it advises the Audit Committee on ESG-related risks, including climate-related issues.
| Member: | |
|---|---|
Stefanie Frensch | Committee Chair & Independent Non - Executive Director |
Gary Britton | Independent Non - Executive Director |
Eddie Byrne | Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer |
The Senior Leadership team is responsible for executing the strategy. It manages, monitors and provides the senior leadership input underlying the Company’s strategic and operational decisions, ensuring strong alignment on business priorities, investments and actions.
The company constitution, memorandum and articles of association can be found here .