Mr Donal Keane, B.Comm FCA

Chief Operations Officer and Secretary to the Board

Contact Tel: Niamh Murphy (PA)
Tel: + 353 (0) 1 607 3248
Email: donal.keane@sfi.ie

Mr Donal Keane was appointed Chief Operations Officer at SFI with effect from 1 November 2005, with responsibility for Grants, IT, Finance, HR and Facilities.  On 1 March 2010 he assumed the role of Secretary to the SFI Board.  

Keane joined SFI from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology where he held the position of Secretary/Financial Controller from 1997 to 2005.  Prior to that Keane held senior management positions at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, GE Capital and Wang Finance in both Dublin and Toronto, Canada.  His professional training was undertaken at Coopers & Lybrand from 1978 to 1982.

Donal Keane holds a B.Comm degree from University College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.