Bernard Byrne, CEO AIB

Mr. Byrne was appointed Chief Executive Offer in May 2015. He joined AIB in May 2010 as Group Chief Financial Officer and member of the Bank’s Leadership Team and was co-opted to the Board on 24 June 2011.  Since then he has held a number of leading director roles including Director of Personal, Business & Corporate Banking and more recently Director of Retail & Business Banking.  Mr Byrne was appointed to the Board of EBS Limited in July 2011.  In January 2015, he was appointed President of Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) and in March 2016 he was appointed Deputy President of the Institute of Banking (IOB).

A Chartered Accountant by profession, Mr Byrne joined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in 1988 and moved to ESB International in 1994, where he worked as Commercial Director for International Investments.  He later became Group Finance Director and Commercial Director with parent company, ESB, until he left to join AIB.  Prior to that, he was Finance Director, and later the Deputy CEO of IWP International plc. 

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