The Lero Governance Committee works with the Lero management to ensure that the centre operates in lines with its strategy and the expectations of SFI and to provide an informed external perspective on the strategic activities of Lero. This includes awareness of best practice across CSETs, of industry priorities and constraints and of state/agency perspectives.

It meets quarterly and reports to the President of UL. Members include

Membership

Mr. Eoin O'Driscoll (Chairman)

Eoin O'Driscoll is Managing Director of Aderra and formerly a Senior Vice President with Lucent Technologies.

In addition to being on the board of a number of private software and telecommunications companies, Eoin is Chairman of Forfas; Enet; SWS Group; Director of Ion Equity; Director of The Irish Times and The Irish Times Trust; Director of the Cork University Foundation, Director of theTrinity College Institute of Neuroscience; and a member of the National Executive Council of IBEC. In 2004, Eoin chaired the Enterprise Strategy Review Group at the request of the then Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Eoin is a graduate of University College Cork and holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering.

Mr. Paul Haran

Paul Haran, former Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, was instrumental in the development and implementation of policies that contributed directly to the creation of the Celtic Tiger. Haran is the first Principal of College to be appointed via open competition to this five-year office.

Haran's policies as Secretary General contributed to the formation of the €600 million funded SFI (Science Foundation Ireland), the introduction of a single rate of corporation tax and the reform of Ireland's labour markets. Haran is a member of the Court of Directors of the Bank of Ireland, a member of the board of Glanbia and of the board of the Mater Private Hospital. He is also chair of the Irish Government's Working Group on Legal Costs, a member of the Forum of the ESRI, a Council member of the IMI (Irish Management Institute), chair of Forfás Taxation Advisory Committee, a trustee of the Millennium Trust and a member of the board of the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business.

Haran holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Public Sector Analysis, both from University of Dublin, Trinity College.

Dr. Vincent Cunnane

Vincent Cunnane, CEO of Shannon Development 

Mr. Dan Flinter

Dan Flinter, Chairman of the Governing Body, NUI Maynooth and  former Chief Executive of Enterprise Ireland and native of Athy, County Kildare. He is the Chairman of the Governing Authority of National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Previously, Mr Flinter held a range of senior positions including CEO of Forbairt, Executive Director of IDA and Board member of Forfas. Mr Flinter is currently a Director of the Digital Hub Development Agency, Chairman of the Northern Ireland Food Strategy Group and Non-Executive Director of Project Management Holdings. He is also a Board member of Duolog Holdings Ltd.
During his time with Enterprise Ireland, Forbairt and IDA, Mr Flinter played a leading role in the development of Irish industrial policy. He has particular expertise in the development of international trade and foreign direct investment. He holds an MA in Economics from University College Dublin.

Prof. Brian Fitzgerald

Brian Fitzgerald is Vice-President Research at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he holds an endowed professorship, the Frederick A. Krehbiel II Chair in Innovation in Global Business & Technology. He previously led global software development (GSD) research within Lero - Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (www.lero.ie), He was also the Founding Director of the Lero Graduate School in Software Engineering (www.lgsse.ie). He has received the UL award for Excellence in Research.  He was formerly at University College Cork, and has held Visiting Professor positions in Italy, Austria, Sweden the UK and US. He received his PhD from the University of London. His research interests lie primarily in the area of software development, a broad area which encompasses the use of development methods, globally-distributed software development, agile methods and open source software.  His publications include 11 books, and 130 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals and conferences in both the Information Systems and Software Engineering fields.

Mr. Paul Rellis

Paul Rellis is managing director of Microsoft Ireland and president of the American Chamber of Commerce of Ireland.  As president of the American Chamber of Commerce of Ireland (AmCham) since January 2008, he supports business relationships between Ireland and the US.

A native of Limerick, he was formerly managing director of Microsoft's EMEA Operations Centre. He joined Microsoft in January 2000 from the Coca-Cola Company, where he held a variety of senior positions in finance, marketing and operations in both the Coca-Cola HQ in Atlanta and in Germany. Mr Rellis has also served as chairman of the Small Business Forum and has been a serving board member of the Health Service Executive.

Professor Mike Hinchey (Lero Centre Director)

Professor Mike Hinchey is Centre Director of Lero and Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick.  Prof. Hinchey was previously Director of the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland. He remains as a consultant to NASA.  Professor Hinchey, a native of Limerick city, is a graduate of UL where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal as leading student in his graduating year. He was awarded an M.Sc in Computation at the University of Oxford and a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Cambridge.  Professor Hinchey has held a number of professorships, both visiting and permanent, in a number of Universities including the University of Nebraska, The Queen’s University of Belfast, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Skovde in Sweden and University of Queensland in Australia.

Particular areas of software research for Professor Hinchey include Formal Methods, Autonomous Systems and Software Reliability.  His work with NASA was implemented in various space projects and will be incorporated in future missions. He helped make NASA missions self-managing and able to proceed to terrains that were previously inaccessible. He also helped develop significant advances in survivability, with consequent less likelihood of mission failure. Professor Hinchey has published widely and is very well known in the international computing community.

Contact Details : Tel: +353-61-233607  Email: Mike Hinchey