Director Profiles

Gerard Boyle joined the Board in 2017. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development. He spent his early career in CIE, and subsequently held a number of senior management posts in local government and in health boards, before joining ACC Bank where he became Company Secretary and General Manager, Personnel.

He now works as a HR consultant, providing a range of interim management and specialist human resource management support to a number of organisations including principally Health Boards, The National Disease Surveillance Centre, The National Standards Authority of Ireland, The Mental Health Commission, Dublin Bus, Bus Eireann and (prior to becoming a Director) Saint John of God Hospitaller Community Services.

Gerry Boyle does not serve on any other Saint John of God boards.

Charles Watchorn is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. For more than 30 years up to June 2017, he held a variety of senior management roles in the areas of finance and operations for several US multinational companies in the computer software area. Most recently he was the Ireland site director and the international financial controller for Synopsys, Inc., a $3 billion Silicon Valley company.

In addition to his accountancy qualification he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Management Science, both from TCD.