Ireland: CRH has appointed Richard Boucher as a non-executive director.
Boucher, aged 59 years and an Irish citizen, has experience in all aspects of financial services and was the chief executive of Bank of Ireland Group between February 2009 and October 2017. He also held a number of senior management roles within Bank of Ireland, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank. He is a past President of the Institute of Banking in Ireland and of the Irish Banking Federation.
He is a consultant for Fairfax Financial Group and acts as its nominee on the Board of Atlas Mara, a company with investments in banks in Africa. He is also a non-executive Director of Eurobank Ergasias, a bank based in Athens, Greece that has operations in Greece and several other European countries. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from Trinity College, Dublin and is a Fellow of the Institute of Banking in Ireland.