Guest Speaker:  Patrick Coveney, Group CEO, Greencore Group plc

Prior to joining Greencore, Patrick was global partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked extensively across Europe and North America, finishing his career with the company as managing partner for McKinsey in Ireland.

He was appointed Group CEO of Greencore in 2007, having served two and a half years as Group CFO.  He has led the business through a period of dramatic strategic, organisational, cultural and financial change - the Group now has revenues of £1.2bn and employs more than 12,000 people in the UK, Ireland and the US.

Patrick is a former Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford, where he gained an M. Phil and D. Phil in Management Studies.  He holds a B. Comm from UCC where he was overall Graduate of the Year in 1992.