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Meet our board of directors. 

To get in touch with our board email [email protected]

or phone 028 71266946

Catherine McDonnell

Chairperson

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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. 

Published: 10th November, 2022

Updated: 6th April, 2023

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Ciara Hanley

Board Member

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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 Prosections (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.

Published: 8th November, 2022

Updated: 11th May, 2023

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Jason McIntosh

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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. 

Published: 25th June, 2019

Updated: 23rd November, 2022

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June Coates

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June - now retired - worked at Seagate Technology for 24 years where she was Internal Communications and Community Engagement Manager. In this role, she was responsible for local employee communications, PR, sponsorships and community partnerships. The latter included the development and delivery of a number of STEM programmes for local schools and the promotion and facilitation of employee volunteering opportunities.

Published: 3rd November, 2017

Updated: 23rd November, 2022

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Paul Healy

Vice Chair

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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.

Published: 8th November, 2022

Updated: 24th March, 2023

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Steven Lindsay

Treasurer

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Steven is a chartered accountant and a chartered internal auditor. He has been Chief Executive and Director of Finance in Health and Social Care, and a partner in an accountancy practice. He sits on the boards of organisations in the public, charity, and not-for-profit sectors.

Published: 3rd November, 2017

Updated: 23rd November, 2022

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Valerie Dinsmore

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Valerie was born and brought up in Derry and now lives in London. Her background is in policy, strategy and community engagement in local government and health services. She works as a freelance consultant, training commissioners in health and social care. She is also a qualified librarian. 

Published: 24th March, 2021

Updated: 23rd November, 2022

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Verbal
Stable Lane and Mall Wall
Bishop Street Within
Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6PU

Tel:  028 7126 6946
Email:  [email protected]

Registered Charity No. NIC101482