Board Of Directors

Tom Roche

Chairman

Tom is a founding Director of NTR plc and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He also holds a number of other directorships.  

Tom graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an MA (Economics) degree and holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Rosheen McGuckian

Chief Executive Officer

Rosheen was appointed Chief Executive Officer of NTR plc in April 2013.  Since joining NTR in 2008, Rosheen has held a number of leadership positions in NTR including most recently as Group Business Development Director and CEO positions in solar development, energy storage, water treatment and waste management platforms within the group.  

Prior to joining NTR, Rosheen was CEO of GE Money Ireland, the consumer finance division of General Electric. Prior to that, Rosheen led the business transformation initiative for Irish utility ESB Power Generation.    

Rosheen is a Director of Grafton Group plc and construction group Sisk. Rosheen was recently voted as one of the Top 25 in the Global Women’s Power List and Top 50 in the Global Green Fund Power List. She holds a PhD and MA from Dublin City University, and BSc from Trinity College Dublin. 

Marie Joyce

Chief Financial Officer

Marie is Chief Financial Officer of NTR plc. She joined NTR in 2004 and has held various executive financial and commercial roles across the Group internationally during this time, including in wind, solar and broader infrastructure subsidiaries. 

Prior to NTR, Marie was Senior Director of Strategic Planning for Elan Corporation plc, where she played a pivotal role in its US$2 billion financial restructuring and fundraising programme. Marie is a chartered accountant, having trained at Arthur Andersen. 

Marie is a Director of daa plc, the Irish state-owned international airport and travel retail group.  She also serves on the programme board of the MSc. in International Accounting and Analytics at NUI Galway and is a member of the Sustainability Expert Working Group of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland.  Marie was formerly Chair of the Board of Make-A-Wish Ireland. 

Marie holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Galway, a Masters in Accounting from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. 

Chris Hunt

Non-Executive Director

Chris is a Partner and Managing Director of Riverstone, based in London.

Chris joined Riverstone in 2008.  Through his more than thirty-year career, he has primarily specialised in power (both renewable and conventional) and natural gas projects.  Chris has developed, constructed, financed and operated energy businesses in over 25 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has worked on several hundred energy facilities totalling approximately 40GW of power capacity and several million gas customers.  Prior to joining Riverstone, Chris ran international power development and generation businesses for both BP and Enron. 

Chris currently serves on the Boards of Pattern Energy, Silver Ridge Power, Velocita Energy Holdings, Forsa Energy, Enviva Holdings, Avant Energy, and EMA Power.  

Chris received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. from Columbia University.  He has also completed various postgraduate training at Harvard, Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oxford University.  In addition, he is a Professor of Practice at Imperial Business School in London.

Brian Kearney

Non-Executive Director

Brian has run his own management consultancy firm for almost 30 years.  During this period he was also Chief Executive of Powerscreen International plc and CardBase Technologies Ltd and was Group Chief Executive of Arnotts Holdings Ltd.  

He has acted as Chairman of Lifestyle Sports, Premier Computer Group and Moffett Engineering Ltd, director of IWP International Ltd, Towercom Holdings Ltd, AMT-Sybex Ltd and McCormick Macnaughton Ltd.  

Brian is currently a Non-Executive Director of Robert J. Goff & Co Plc, Multihog Ltd, and is an Independent Non-Executive of Grant Thornton.

He has also served on the Professional Standards Committee of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board.  Brian is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, has been a member of its Strategy Review Board and has represented the Institute on the Professional Accountants in Business Committee of the International Federation of Accountants.

Helen Kirkpatrick MBE

Non-Executive Director

Helen Kirkpatrick is a Non-Executive Director of NTR plc.

Helen currently sits on the board of a number of private and not-for-profit companies including agri-food manufacturer Dale Farm Co-operative Ltd, software solutions provider Neueda Ltd and the Irish Football Association.  Helen is also a member of the audit committee of Queen’s University Belfast.

Helen formerly was on the boards of Kingspan Group plc and UTV Media/Wireless Group plc and was also a Non-Executive director of the International Fund for Ireland.

Helen has a B.A. (Hons) Business Studies from Ulster University, is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.  She was awarded a MBE for services to the community in Northern Ireland.

Andrew Macland

Non-Executive Director

Andrew Macland is a managing director at PGIM Real Estate and head of the European Debt business.  Based in London, Andrew serves on PGIM Real Estate’s European Executive Council and European Investment Committee and is senior portfolio manager for the Pramerica Real Estate Capital (PRECap) series of funds, with responsibility for investments and capital raising, property recoveries and restructuring.

Previously, Andrew co-founded the boutique fund manager Paramount Private Equity, which was subsequently absorbed by PGIM Real Estate in 2009.  Prior to this, Andrew held senior investment banking positions at Rothschild, AIBC and CCF Charterhouse.

Andrew started his career as a surveyor, specialising in development and construction prior to joining HSBC Specialist Investments where he was responsible for the sourcing and execution of residential and commercial projects in central London.

Andrew has a degree in real estate investment and land management and is a qualified Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).

Manus O'Donnell

Chief Investment Officer

Manus O’Donnell joined NTR in 2014 as Chief Investment Officer. Manus leads NTR’s investment team and has over 18 years’ experience developing, structuring and executing corporate and project level funding transactions for over 1,500MW of wind and solar energy projects across Europe, the US and Asia.

He was most recently CEO of Mainstream Capital and Head of Corporate Finance for Mainstream Renewable Energy and previously, Manus worked in corporate finance at Airtricity for six years, which was part of the NTR Group.  

Manus started his career in investment and corporate banking in London and Dublin. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the Endowment Fund at Trinity College Dublin.  

He holds a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College Dublin, a M.A. degree in Economics from University College Galway and a MBA from the Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin.

Conor Roche

Non-Executive Director

Conor is Chief Investment Officer at Woodford Capital DAC. Woodford is a private investment company established in 1977 to manage the business interests of the Roche family which span renewable energy, infrastructure, hotels, real estate and other investments.

Prior to joining Woodford in 2017, Conor held a number of leadership positions at NTR plc having joined the Group in 2003, most recently as Business Development Director where he was responsible for origination and investment in wind and solar renewable energy projects and for capital raising for NTR investment funds.

Conor has nearly two decades of experience in development, acquisition and disposal of businesses in renewable energy, sustainable waste management, hotels and real estate.

Conor is a Director of Woodford Capital DAC, Doyle Hotels Holdings Ltd, Balthazar Ventures Ltd and The Sharing Foundation Ltd.

Conor earned an Honours BA degree in Economics and Sociology from the National University of Ireland, an MBA from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and graduated from the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Charlotte Valeur

Non-Executive Director

Charlotte is a non-executive director of NTR plc.  She is the Managing Director of GGG Limited, which advises on corporate governance.  Charlotte is also on the boards of a number of listed and unlisted companies including Laing O’Rourke Limited, JP Morgan Convertibles Income Fund Limited, Blackstone/GSO Loan Financing Limited and Phoenix Spree Deutschland Limited.  Charlotte is also on the board of Westminster University.

Prior to her appointment at GGG Limited, Charlotte was the Managing Partner at Brook Street Partners Limited from January 2003.  Charlotte has also held a number of senior capital markets roles in the City of London and Denmark.  Charlotte is a member of the Institute of Directors, which is regulated by the European Commission.