Board of Directors
Lar Bradshaw - Chairman
Lar has been chairman of the Board of Directors of Centric Health since its inception in 2003. Previously, he spent 20 years with McKinsey and Company Inc., the international management consulting firm and was director of the firm worldwide and managing director of McKinsey Ireland which he set up in 1994.
Lar was Chairman of the Dublin Docklands Authority from 1997 until May 2007 and is a previous director of Anglo Irish Bank. He is currently Executive Chairman of Cove Capital.
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. While working in their Global healthcare practice, he worked with leading healthcare providers in Europe and the US. Particular projects he worked on included working to reduce the length of stay in large London teaching hospitals, setting up the regulatory framework for Foundation trust hospitals and establishing group physician practices in primary care in the UK.
Maurice 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 a member of the board of Áthas, which provides therapy for children with developmental delay due to brain injury, genetic conditions, chromosome abnormality, birth trauma or accidents. He is also on the Board of Orbis Ireland.
James Osborne – Non Executive Director
James worked as the Managing Partner of A & L Goodbody between 1982 and 1994 when he retired as a partner. James has served on a number of boards including Bank of Ireland plc, Golden Vale plc, Adare plc, Carrolls Holdings plc and numerous Irish private companies.
James contributed to the flotation of Ryanair in London, New York, and Dublin and is on board of Ryanair Holdings. He is also Chairman of Newcourt Group plc.
Pat Walsh - Non Executive Director
Pat is a graduate of the University of Limerick and represents our minority shareholder, Anglo Irish Bank on the Board. Pat has held senior management positions in Ulster Bank, Arthur Andersen and is currently an Associate Director of Anglo Irish Bank.
Aidan McGettigan – Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
Aidan is a graduate of DCU and qualified as a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1992. He worked in investment banking in London for five years and since his return home in 2001 has worked in the venture capital industry. Aidan worked with companies in the technology, life sciences and health care sectors before joining Centric Health in 2004.
Dr Johnny Walker, CEO The Global Group
Johnny is both a medical entrepreneur and 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 has a vast amount of clinical and business experience having founded ITS in 1996 and Global in 2000 and built the combined entity from scratch in 10 years. Johnny is based in London and heads up The Executive Management Team.