Member Type: External Directors

Rose McHugh is a non-executive director with extensive board experience across public, private, and not-for-profit sectors and over 35 years commercial experience.

She is currently chair of Crawford Art Gallery and is non-executive director of Bank of America Europe (and chair of the Audit Committee) and Irish Life Group. She is also a member of the Governing Authority of UCC (and chair of the Audit & Risk Committee). She served two terms as chair of Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), was chair of Brook Foods and is a former non-executive director of Origin Enterprises Plc and Bord na Mona.

She was formerly executive director and head of corporate finance at Merrion Capital. Prior to this appointment, she was deputy CEO of SWS Group, a renewable energy and diversified services group and a Director of Taxation with EY.

She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, an Associate of the Institute of Taxation in Ireland, with an honours law degree and MBA from UCC. She is a Chartered Director with the Institute of Directors and has a Certificate in Sustainable Finance from Cambridge University.

Malin has over 25 years of experience with leadership roles such as CEO/CIO/CTO where she has been responsible for various digital transformations in both for-profit and non-profit organisations operating within fintech, gaming, music-tech, transportation, life-science and government.

She is skilled in leading international teams through change, using new technology as an enabler for growth and transformation. Malin is also known for balancing complex stakeholders’ interests whilst gaining visible results.

Currently, Malin is the CEO of a fintech scaleup company based in Sweden offering various payment solutions and debt collecting services to a broad range of customers. Before that, Malin was studio manager at PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions in Amsterdam, NL, a studio founded by Brendan Greene who is an Irish video game developer best known for the hugely successful game PUBG: Battleground. PLAYERUNKNOWN Productions explores new technology using AI with the aim of building a platform to experience large-scale digital experiences (the Metaverse).

Further, Malin has a long background from the music industry as she is the former CEO of Network of Music Partners (NMP), a joint venture by PRS for Music and Nordic CMOs (Koda, Tono, Teosto) formed in 2011 with the idea that economy of scale in royalty management is enabled through collaboration services such as mechanical offline processing as well as digital (online) handling for a number of CMOs. During her 8 years at the helm of NMP, Malin and her team managed to significantly expand the managed royalty portfolio to not only handle MCPS’ and the Nordic CMO’s offline and online rights, but also that of the Dutch CMO, Buma/Strema. Finally, Malin has served as Advisor on the IMRO IT-committee reporting to the IMRO board, since June 2022.

Clare Duignan is a non-executive director with extensive board experience across private, public and not-for-profit sectors. During her career at RTÉ, she gained wide-ranging senior executive experience, with over 20 years in key leadership roles including Head of Independent Productions, Director of Programmes TV, and Managing Director Radio and Performing Groups.

Clare is currently a board member with Fáilte Ireland, The Irish Times DAC, and The Chester Beatty Library. In 2020, she chaired the Irish Government’s Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce. She has previously served on the board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, The Dublin International Film Festival, and The Arts Council, and she chaired the Advisory Board of ShinAwil Film and Television.