Appointments

Recent appointments at CBE

Musgrave appoints Andrew Keating as new chief financial officer

Clive Hughes has been promoted to the position of director UK at CBE, one of Europe’s largest electronic point of sale (EPOS) providers.

Hughes, a native of Enniscrone in County Sligo, joined CBE in September 2006 as a systems engineer, deploying, supporting and training customers on CBE’s technology. In 2014, Hughes and his family took the opportunity of moving to the UK, taking on the role of business development manager overseeing CBE’s UK customer base grow to over 1,300 sites across all major fuel brands and symbol groups. 2020 saw the introduction of CBE’s innovative fuel on selfcheckout solution, which Hughes has been key to delivering into the marketplace.

In addition, MJ Cleary, a native of Claremorris, has been appointed as product manager. Cleary joined CBE in 2016 and has worked in several roles within the company during that time.

Headquartered in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, CBE was founded by Gerard Concannon and

management positions with leading Irish PLCs, including, most recently, director of group finance with CRH. Prior to his time with CRH, Andrew was group chief financial officer at Bank of Ireland and previously spent several years across different finance roles with Ulster Bank.

In joining Musgrave, Keating brings with him a wealth of commercial experience, and a successful track record for driving growth and delivering large transformation initiatives both nationally and internationally.

Commenting on his appointment, Noel his wife Catherine in 1980 and has grown to become one of the major retail and hospitality technology companies in Europe, employing over 200 people.

Keeley, Musgrave CEO said: “I am delighted to welcome Andrew to Musgrave as CFO following the completion of a comprehensive recruitment process.

“As one of Europe’s leading family-owned businesses, we know that Andrew will play a pivotal role as we continue to grow a world-class food and beverage company that delivers market leading customer experiences every day,” Keeley added.

“We look forward to working with Andrew and know he will become a valuable member of the Musgrave team.” n

Clive Hughes MJ Cleary

FMI announces three senior appointments to leadership team

FMI (Field Marketing Ireland) has appointed Grainne Murphy, Kieran McMahon and Shane Barry to its leadership team in support of the company’s 2023 growth strategy.

“We are delighted to announce the senior appointments of Grainne Murphy, Kieran McMahon and Shane Barry to the FMI leadership team,” said Margaret Lyons, chief executive, FMI.

“Their combined skills and experience will bolster our already exceptional team and will allow us to further grow and diversify our existing offer. Our ambition is to become business critical for our clients now and into the future and to do that innovation and growth is imperative. These senior appointments will help facilitate this growth and allow us to stay ahead of what our customers will require in the future.”

Grainne Murphy, who holds a BA in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management has been promoted from account director to operations director, FMCG at FMI. She joined FMI in 2002 and since then she has played a significant role in the growth of the company by developing bespoke quality assurance programmes for a range of projects contributing to the certification of FMI in four key ISO accreditations. In her new role, Murphy will be responsible for the overall client relationship management function within the FMCG Business unit, ensuring that the business achieves the commercial goals while building long term sustainable relationships with new and existing clients.

Kieran McMahon, who joined FMI in 2021 with over 22 years’ FMCG experience, has

Grainne Murphy, Keiran McMahon and Shane Barry

been promoted to business unit director. McMahon brings a wealth of national and international commercial experience. During his time internationally, he spent six years working with distributors across the Middle East and Africa. He will be applying his in-depth knowledge of international and local distributor model formats to existing and prospective clients of FMI, with a specific focus on delivering best-in-class visibility and availability of brands across all channels and store formats.

Shane Barry recently joined FMI as commercial finance director providing financial and strategic Leadership to the FMI business. Barry joined FMI from Diageo Ireland where he spent 13 years in various senior management positions including his most recent role as quality & commercial operations director with a specific focus on delivery of the sustainable profitable growth agenda. Prior to Diageo, Barry was senior commercial manager at T-Mobile with responsibility for the creation and delivery of T-Mobile’s wholesale division’s commercial strategy with a specific focus on pricing, terms negotiations and monetisation of new technologies.

Andrew Keating Leading food retail, wholesale and foodservice company, Musgrave appointed Andrew Keating as chief financial officer and executive director with effect from 9 January 2023. Keating is a proven CFOCFO with with considerableconsiderable board-levelboard-level experience, having previously held senior