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Board of Directors

Executive Directors

Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy is the Chief Executive. He joined the Group in an executive capacity in September 2005 and became Chief Executive on 1 January 2006. Patrick was already a Board member, having been appointed as a non-executive director in March 2004. Before joining Paddy Power, Patrick was Chief Financial Officer of Greencore Group plc, having previously been Group Development Director. Patrick has also worked with KPMG Corporate Finance both in Ireland and the Netherlands, and as a strategy consultant with McKinsey and Company Management Consultants in London, Dublin and Amsterdam. Patrick is also a non-executive director of Elan Corporation plc.

Breon Corcoran

Breon Corcoran is the Chief Operating Officer. He joined the Group in April 2001 with responsibility for development of the non-retail business. In May 2006, his role was expanded to include responsibility for new business development, strategy and acquisitions. He previously worked with J.P.Morgan and Bankers Trust. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin with an MBA from INSEAD. He was appointed to the Board in August 2004.

Jack Massey

Jack Massey is the Finance Director. He joined the Group and was appointed to the Board in April 2006. He previously worked with ITG Europe, the European division of the NYSE quoted company, Investment Technology Group Inc, where he had been Chief Operating Officer since 2002. Jack joined ITG Europe in 1998 as Finance Director. Prior to that, he worked with Ulster Bank Markets as Head of Financial and Management Reporting and previous to that as a Manager with Arthur Andersen. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and a graduate of University College Dublin.

Chairman

Nigel Northridge

Nigel Northridge was appointed as a non-executive director in July 2003 and as Chairman from January 2009. Nigel spent 32 years with Gallagher Group plc in sales and marketing roles, becoming group chief executive in 2000, a position in which he oversaw significant growth in shareholder value. leading to the sale of the company in 2007 for £9.4 billion. Nigel is Chairman of Debenhams plc, senior independent director of Aggreko plc and a non-executive director of Inchcape plc.

Member of Nominations Committee Member of Remuneration Committee

Non-Executive Directors

Fintan Drury

Fintan Drury is chairman of sports and conference management company PLATINUM ONE Ltd, of global renewable energy company, Mainstream Renewal Power and of OneVision, the provider of commercial Digital Television services in Ireland. Fintan founded Drury Communications in 1988 and grew the company into the market leader in corporate communications in Ireland prior to selling it in 1999. He joined the Board of Paddy Power in August 2002, and was Chairman of the Group from May 2003 to December 2008.

Tom Grace - Senior Independent Director

Tom Grace was appointed as a non-executive director in January 2006 and became senior independent director in January 2009. Tom was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1983 to 2005, where he led the Insolvency Department from 1987 onwards. With 34 years experience in total at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tom has also worked in the audit and management consultancy divisions, principally in the area of financial advice. Tom is also well known as a former rugby international and is currently honorary treasurer of the Irish Rugby Football Union. He won 25 international rugby caps for Ireland between 1972 and 1978 and captained the side on eight occasions. He also toured as a British and Irish Lion in 1974.

Stewart Kenny

Stewart Kenny was a co-founder of Paddy Power in 1988. He has considerable experience in the betting industry, training with Ladbrokes in London for two years before establishing a chain of betting shops, Kenny O'Reilly Bookmakers. He sold that business to Coral in 1986 and subsequently re-entered the business, opening ten betting shops between 1986 and 1988. He was Group Chief Executive from 1988 to 2002, and Chairman from 2002 to 2003.

David Power

David Power co-founded Paddy Power in 1988 and has been a non-executive director since that date. He merged a significant proportion of the betting shops controlled by him and trading as Richard Power Bookmakers with Paddy Power in 1988. He is an on-course bookmaker.

Brody Sweeney

Brody Sweeney was appointed as a non-executive director in February 2005. He is the founder of O'Brien's Irish Sandwich Bars and of Connect Ethiopia, the Irish business charity.

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Pádraig Ó Ríordáin

Pádraig Ó Ríordáin was appointed as a non-executive director in July 2008. Pádraig is Managing Partner of Arthur Cox, a leading Irish law firm. He studied law in the National University of Ireland and Harvard Law School and has practiced in New York and Dublin. In addition to his role in managing Arthur Cox, Pádraig advises a range of public companies, private companies and State related entities on their transactional and business issues and has a specialist expertise in regulated industries. In 2009, he was named European Managing Partner of the Year at the Lawyer European Awards and the British Legal Awards. He is also a non-executive director of TVC Holdings.

Member of Remuneration Committee Member of Nominations Committee

Jane Lighting

Jane Lighting was appointed as a non-executive director in September 2009. She was Chief Executive of Five, the UK's fifth terrestrial television channel, until 2008. Prior to joining Five in 2003, Jane was Chief Executive of Flextech plc. Jane is a Trustee and Fellow of the Royal Television Society and a Council Member of the British Screen Advisory Council and is a non-executive director of Trinity Mirror Group Plc.

Member of Remuneration Committee Member of Audit Committee

William Reeve

William Reeve is the founder and former managing director of LOVEFiLM International, which he helped to grow to become Europe's largest online DVD rental service. Prior to LOVEFiLM, William co-founded Fletcher Research, which became the UK’s largest Internet research firm and was subsequently acquired by the NasDaq listed company, Forrester Research. William is currently executive chairman of TrueKnowledge.com, a next generation Internet search business, and a venture partner with DFJ Esprit, the European arm of the world’s largest technology venture capital network. He is also an investor in and non-executive director of a number of high growth Internet companies.