Experienced Specialists and Emerging Talent

Brian McArdle

Group Finance Director

Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2010, Brian worked for PwC from 2006 until 2011, including a year-long placement in Melbourne, with Australian Unity. Brian has significant experience in leading finance teams across many sectors, having held senior roles in Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse in London, and State Street Corporation in Dublin. Brian joins us from FD Technologies plc (formerly First Derivatives plc), where he was CFO for its Consultancy Division ‘First Derivative’ (2000 staff, +£140m turnover).

Paul Noble

Operations Director - Interiors

Paul is an internationally experienced Project Director with a background in surveying which affords him the benefit of understanding all aspects of a project. His extensive knowledge of construction detail allows him to successfully liaise with the design team members to assist in help with technical details in the build process and value engineering. Paul has completed many refurbishment and fit-out projects in live and occupied buildings, these experiences have given him a sound awareness of the needs of the building users as well as excellent interpersonal skills for liaising with relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Degree (Hons) Construction Economics
• BSc. (Hons) Surveying

Sean Cummins

Director - Construction

Sean brings with him over 20 years’ experience in the construction industry. A Construction Director with key experience in delivering both small and large scale projects across all sectors of the industry with a firm emphasis on safety, quality, cost and programme.

A direct and effective communicator with strong planning, organisational, and negotiating skills with a collaborative approach to projects where possible; He builds strong relationships with his clients, design teams, and the supply chain ensuring maximum value is reached in all aspects.

Qualifications:

• B Tech (Ed) Wood & Building Technology: University of Limerick
• CIF Building Regulations – NFQ Level 6
• ICIOB
• MSIC
• BIM for Contractors:  Arcdox
• 2013 CIOB Construction Manager of the Year

Peter Browne

Head of Business Development

Peter is a highly experienced business development and construction professional.

A Chartered Construction Manager with over 20 years of experience in identifying opportunities and delivering solutions across both the public and private sectors. Peter is an expert in Modern Methods of Construction and is an advocate of innovation and creativity in construction.

Qualifications:

• MCIOB
• CSR – Platinum Card

Dee Booth

Group HR Director

Dee’s generalist HR experience combined with her wider understanding of business objectives is a unique pairing. Dee has an ability to establish relationships at all levels whilst remaining credible and influential at the highest level. Her drive and commitment inspire confidence and brings knowledge to bear on business-critical issues.

Dee came to mac from Pegasus Group where she was Group HR Director bringing with her over 30 years’ experience working in construction, house-building and civil engineering, giving her a deep understanding and strong ability to communicate, facilitate and negotiate where necessary.

Qualifications:

• Associate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
• Numerous training courses covering HR, Health & Safety and General Management.

Darren Bourke

Group Environmental Health & Safety Director

Having worked with mac-group since 2016 within our EHS Department, Darren assumed full responsibility for managing Health & Safety group-wide in January of 2020 as Group EHS Manager until his recent promotion to Group EHS Director.

Darren has been working in the construction industry for 31 years, the last 21 of which have been spent working fulltime in the Health & Safety sector. His vast experience in managing complicated H&S requirements on multi-million euro projects and his warm, open honest approach is appreciated by all.

Darren is custodian of our ISO certified 45001 & 14001 integrated EHS Management System and leads a team of experienced and highly trained EHS practitioners.

Qualifications:

• Diploma in Health & Safety Law
• Diploma in Construction Management

Christelle Gregg FCIM

Marketing Manager

A seasoned marketing professional who thrives on developing and leading insights-driven marketing and communications strategies connecting business and marketing objectives.
Christelle’s wealth of marketing experience has been gained mainly in construction, civil engineering as well as retail, charity, wholesale, and manufacturing.

An inquisitive strategist, passionate about collaboration and believes powerful marketing comes from authenticity and delights in forming close relationships.

Qualifications:

• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
• Chartered Marketer

Numerous training courses covering strategic planning, digital marketing, management, branding, client relationships, event planning.

Colleen Rooney BSc.

Environmental Advisor

Colleen is extremely passionate about sustainability – It is this passion that led her to study Environmental Management at Queen’s University Belfast. She is eager to discover new ways to help build a cleaner and greener future.

Colleen started at mac-group on a placement, where she was given the opportunity to learn and experience green building rating systems such as LEED and BREEAM, that help to create sustainable buildings that limit the impact on the environment. At mac, Colleen works alongside many LEED professionals as our staff make up 25% of all LEED Green Associates in Ireland. Throughout her year of placement and working part-time, Colleen completed her studies and built on her knowledge of green building and environmental management systems. Colleen now works full-time as our Environmental Advisor.

Qualifications:

• BSc. Queen’s University Belfast in Environmental Management with professional studies
• LEED GA

Colm O’Hanlon

Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Director

Having worked all over the world as an Electrical Site Manager, Colm has built jobs of great scale and complexity. He joined mac in 2014 and was promoted to Engineering Manager in 2017 having proved himself adept in the management of teams, stakeholders and projects.

Colm is measured and hard-working – a natural problem-solver. He has supervised the successful M&E installation of several complex projects for mac including Oracle, 1 Cathedral Square in Bristol and Brown Brothers Harriman.

Qualifications:

• Level 3 Electrotechnical Engineering
• MIET
• LEED Green Associate
• BRE BIM Level 2 Essentials Qualified
• Queen University Belfast – Emerging Leaders Programme

Barbara Dooley

Project Manager/Interior Architect

Barbara combines the creativity of a designer with the pragmatism of a project manager.  Her international experience has equipped her with the ability to intercept design flaws in the context of constructability.  Barbara has also achieved her LEED Green Associate qualification which informs her designs with an ethos of sustainability and energy efficiency.

Qualifications:

• BA in Interior Architecture
• BA in Design
• LEED GA

Eoghan Harris

Project Information Manager

Eoghan heads up our BIM team, producing information models for each project that enables compliance with BS1192:2007, integration of COBie parameters and outputs, BIM-based O&Ms.

Qualifications:

• M.Sc. in Construction Informatics
• LEED Green Associate
• USGBC
• Autodesk REVIT and NAVISWORKS
• ENSCAPE BIM visualisation
• ASITE Common Data

Brendan Donaghy

Group Quality Manager

Brendan drives the design, implementation and auditing of the processes that culminate in the delivery of excellence in quality. Highly qualified and with an understanding of detail, Brendan treats quality as a culture and he brings his depth of experience and depth of knowledge to influence behaviours and activities in our teams.

Qualifications: 

• MBA
• BSc. (Hons) in Economics

Lee O’Connor

Senior Project Manager

Lee started his career following completion of his degree in Building Services Engineering.  He has a breadth of experience that encompasses roles such as Bulk Earthworks Supervisor, Quantity Surveyor and Project Manager, he has managed projects up to €20m.  When Lee speaks, it is clear he really knows his subject, his input in challenging situations is invaluable, and that he’s a problem solver.

Qualifications: 

• B.Eng. (Hons) in Building Services Engineering