Board of Directors
Dr Maurice Cox - CEO
Maurice has been CEO of Centric Health since 2003. Prior to setting up Centric Health with Dr Ray Power, he worked with the management consulting firm McKinsey which he joined in 1999.
He holds a BA in medicine from Trinity College, Dublin, an M.Phil. in skeletal biology from Cambridge University and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Maurice is also Chairman of Orbis Ireland, an international sight saving organisation and on the Board of Helix Health.
Dr Ray Power
Ray is a practicing GP and a graduate of UCD. After completing his MICGP and MRCGP he travelled to Australia, where he worked with the Royal Flying Hospital Service and the University of Western Australia. His work included initiating medical recruitment services in rural western Australia. On his return to Ireland in 2000, he set up the Medical recruitment company Locumotion. In 2003, he founded Centric Health with Dr. Maurice Cox.
Ray is also a member of the Board the international sight saving organisation Orbis Ireland.
Dr Johnny Walker
Johnny is a medical entrepreneur and clinically active dual qualified Radiologist and Nuclear Physician. He is an Australian medical graduate and a Fellow of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. Johnny founded Imaging The South Group (Western Australia) in 1995 and Global Diagnostics (UK) in 2001.
With the merger of Global Diagnostics and Centric Health in June 2008, Johnny relocated to Dublin and remains clinically active on a daily basis and is the leader of the clinical governance and operational excellence that permits delivery of the radiology service around the clock around the world.
Dr Tim Haggett
Tim is a UK trained doctor who moved to Australia in 1991. Following 6 years working as a bush doctor in some of the most remote locations in the country he established Gemini Medical, a company aimed a addressing the growing shortage of rural medical professionals through the use new and innovative models of service delivery. Gemini grew rapidly into one of the largest providers of rural primary health services in Australia and the largest provider of occupational health services to the booming resource and mining industry in Western Australia.
Gemini was sold in 2008 to become part of the Independent Practitioners Network, a division of Sonic Heathcare, australia's largest healthcare company.
Stepping down as Head of Gemini in 2009, Tim joined the board of Centric Heath in Nov 2010
James Osborne – Non Executive Director
James Osborne was educated at Campbell College, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin where he obtained an Honours degree in Legal Science. He qualified as a solicitor in 1973 and joined A&L Goodbody, Solicitors. He opened the Firm’s New York office in 1979 and spent two years there. He became Managing Partner of A&L Goodbody in 1982 and spent twelve years in that role, during which time the firm became the largest in Ireland. He retired as a Partner from A&L Goodbody in 1994, but remains with the Firm as a Consultant.
Since his retirement from the practice of law, James has been involved in numerous businesses and has served on a number of boards of publicly quoted Irish companies including Bank of Ireland plc, Golden Vale plc, Adare plc, and Carrolls Holdings plc, as well as numerous Irish private companies such as Heineken Ireland. He contributed to the flotation of Ryanair in London, New York, and Dublin and remains on the board of Ryanair Holdings plc. He is also on the board of James Hardie Industries SE. James is a board member of the Irish Heritage Trust and the International Pillar Advisory Board of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Aidan McGettigan – Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
Aidan joined Centric Health in 2005 as CFO and Company Secretary. Prior to Centric, Aidan worked in venture capital in Ireland (Growcorp) with a focus on start up investment and before that he worked in investment banking in London (Grenwich Natwest and Morgan Stanley) where he was a founding principal of a small early stage investment fund.
Aidan is a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Ireland having trained in Dublin with PricewaterhouseCoopers and holds a first class honours Accounting and Finance degree from Dublin City University. Aidan is also a director of Invent DCU, which is the Innovation and Enterprise Centre of Dublin City University.