Alf Smiddy
Chairman
Alf Smiddy
Alf is a chartered accountant by profession, having worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Cork and Dublin, and also at the most senior levels in the Irish and international beverage industry for over 20 years, having joined the Foster`s Brewing Group`s Irish subsidiary as Financial controller in 1988. He was Chairman and Managing Director of Beamish & Crawford Plc for over twelve years, and on the Board of its parent company, Scottish & Newcastle (UK) Ltd (a FTSE 100 company) until the takeover of the group for €12b by a conglomerate formed by Carlsberg and Heineken in 2008.
He is a board director and chairman of a number of businesses across a range of sectors including On-Line Marketing, Financial Services, Technology, Research, Toursim and Hospitality, Agriculture and Food, Renewable Energy and Education. He is Chairman of Granite Consulting, Eolas International Research, The Quintas Group – Financial Services, The Chris Mee Health & Safety Group and Riverview Ltd. He serves on a number of other boards including the Moran & Bewleys Hotel Group, the Kilkenny Group, and Kedco Plc. He also runs his own company which works with leadership teams and CEOs in the private and public sectors in Ireland on organisational strategy, marketing and business development, strategic financial management, and human resource leadership.
He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland , a fellow of the Irish Marketing Institute, and has a Diploma in Corporate Direction from the Irish Institute of Directors. In 2009 he graduated with a Masters in Executive Leadership through Boston College and the University of Ulster. Alf is also a member of the joint board of Ed4Life, a CIT Structured PhD collaborate project in the provision of research postgraduate education between three institutes -Cork Institute of Technology partnered with the Alimentary Probiotic Centre in UCC and Moorepark Dairy Product Research centre.
Alf in the news:
- Alf Smiddy invited to speak at Chartered Accountants Cork Conference
- Alf Smiddy joins Kilkenny Group
- Alf has just been appointed Chairman of The Quintas Group – Read more
- Alf was recently appointed to the board of the Moran-Bewley Hotel Group – Read more