Corporate Governance

Herman Troskie is the Chair of the board of directors of Ardagh Group S.A. and has been a director of the Ardagh Group since 2009. He was previously the CEO of Corporate, Legal and Tax Advisory at Stonehage Fleming, the international family office. He has extensive experience in the areas of international corporate structuring, cross-border financing and capital markets. Mr. Troskie is also a director of other private and public companies. He qualified as a South African Attorney in 1997, and as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales in 2001. Mr. Troskie is chair of the Compensation Committee, the Finance Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. He is based in Luxembourg and is a citizen of the Netherlands and South Africa.

Paul Copley is a UK chartered accountant. He spent 20 years at PwC UK, where he was a partner in the restructuring practice. Most notably during that time, he was appointed Joint Administrator of Lehman Brothers International (Europe). Mr. Copley left PwC in 2016 to become CEO of Kaupthing, a former Icelandic bank, based in Reykjavík, Iceland, where he worked until 2023 when Kaupthing was dissolved. He has also served on a number of boards and committees and undertaken advisory mandates. He currently sits as a non-executive director of Steinhoff, a retail holding company, Adler Group, a real estate investor in Germany, Artemis Bidco, an investor in UK holiday parks and FTX, the former cryptocurrency exchange. Mr. Copley also takes formal insolvency appointments and he is Concurrent Administrator of Phones 4U Limited. He also joins governance committees from time to time. Mr. Copley is an independent director and a member of the Audit Committee. He is a British citizen.

Gavin Coulson has been Director of Innovation for the Group since 2021. He co-founded and is a director of Terpsi Capital, a venture capital firm that specializes with investments in the food & beverage sector. Mr Coulson currently serves on the board of Yeoman Capital S.A. Prior to joining Ardagh in 2021, Mr. Coulson worked at Citigroup, in their leveraged finance division in New York. He has a Bachelor’s (BA) degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from The University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Coulson is a citizen of the Republic of Ireland.

Paul Coulson graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a business degree in 1973. He spent five years with Price Waterhouse in London and Dublin and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1978. He then established his own accounting firm before setting up Yeoman International in 1980 and developing it into a significant leasing and structured finance business. From 1998 to 2023, he was Chairman of Ardagh and initiated the transformation of Ardagh from a small, single plant operation into a leading global packaging company. Over the last 40 years he has been involved in the creation and development of a number of businesses apart from Yeoman and Ardagh. These include Fanad Fisheries, a leading Irish salmon farming company, and Sterile Technologies. Prior to its sale to Stericycle, Inc. in 2006, Sterile Technologies had been developed into the leading medical waste management company in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He is a member of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Coulson is a citizen of the Republic of Ireland.

Jame Donath is President of Magnolia Road Advisors LLC and is based in New York. He is a seasoned investor, advisor, and corporate director experienced in helping pre- and post-reorganization companies address financing, M&A, and other strategic initiatives. He spent more than 20 years as an investor in corporate credit opportunities where he regularly led complex restructurings across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Mr. Donath was the founder and managing partner of Magnolia Road Capital, a global event-driven credit fund, and a managing director at Davidson Kempner Capital Management in New York and London, where he launched and oversaw the firm’s European credit business. He started his career in the investment banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York. Mr. Donath is an independent director and is a member of the Audit Committee. He is a citizen of the United States of America.

Gerald Moloney has been a director of the Group since 2016, having served for many years on the boards of Yeoman International Group Limited and Yeoman Capital S.A. He is an executive with the Group since 2018. He holds a law degree from University College Cork and qualified as a solicitor in 1981. He worked for a period in European law in Brussels and has many years’ experience working in the areas of commercial law and commercial litigation. He is a founding partner of the commercial and litigation law firm, G.J. Moloney, with offices in Dublin and Cork, Ireland. Mr Moloney is a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. He is a citizen of the Republic of Ireland.

Damien O’Brien has served as CEO of Egon Zehnder from 2008 to 2014 and as its chairman from 2010 to 2018. Mr. O’Brien joined Egon Zehnder in 1988 and since then he has been based in Australia, Asia and Europe. He is also a member of the board of St. Vincents Health Australia. He was formerly on the board of IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. He earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of New South Wales and a M.B.A. from Columbia University. Mr. O’Brien is an independent director and is the chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. O’Brien is a citizen of Australia and the Republic of Ireland.

John Sheehan was appointed Chief Financial Officer and Director of Ardagh Group in 2021, having previously been Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations. Prior to joining Ardagh in 2012, Mr. Sheehan spent twelve years in the equity capital markets with Investec, RBS and NCB, covering a range of industry sectors, including packaging. Mr. Sheehan qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Sustainability Committee. He is a citizen of the Republic of Ireland.