Our Board

Catherine graduated in Medicine from University College Dublin. She qualified as both a general practitioner and  a psychiatrist. During her training she worked in Northern Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand.  She settled locally and was appointed as a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Western Health and Social Care Trust working in both hospitals and community.  She trained in Quality Improvement with the Scottish Quality Safety Fellowship programme and the Sheffield Flow Coaching Academy.  She held regional roles and led award winning service improvement teams.  She spent the latter part of her career in medical management and was Trust Medical Director through the Covid pandemic. She is delighted to be working with Verbal. 

Ciara is a graduate of NUI Galway and the Law Society of Ireland. She practiced as a Solicitor in Dublin for ten years, predominantly in the area of defence insurance litigation, before becoming dual qualified and practicing in general litigation in ROI and NI. She has a keen interest in public policy and completed a research project on criminal trials of sexual offences with the Policy Unit of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ROI) and assisted the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre establish it's first legal advocacy service. More recently she benefited from completing the Boardroom Apprentice programme.

Jason is a Chartered Accountant and is Senior Finance Manager at Seagate Technology where he is responsible for the Accounting group in the UK and Ireland and across a number of EMEA locations.  He previously worked in accountancy practice as an audit manager.  Jason studied an LLB in Law, and a Masters in Corporate Governance at Queen's University Belfast.  He is also on the board of Groundwork NI, where he currently chairs the Finance & Personnel Committee. 

Paul Healy works as a programme manager in the technology sector. He is the co-founder of Fantom, (https://www.fantom.me), a technology provider to supermarket sales promoters. He also works as a decision support consultant in the consulting collective Get Real (https://www.getreal.ie), and is an Accredited Member of the Association of Facilitators. Based in Derry/Londonderry he works with international clients in Media, Internet, and Technology businesses.