Cathal Magee

Cathal Magee (born 1954) is the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland. He is also a non-executive director of insurance company Vhi Healthcare.
Magee was born in County Cavan. He holds a first class honours degree in Management from the IMI and a MSc in Organizational Behaviour from Trinity College, Dublin. He worked for the National Australia Bank Group in the UK and Ireland. He was director of human resources and business restructuring with Bord na Móna. He joined Telecom Éireann, now Eircom, in 1995 as group human resources director, then as head of the company's retail arm. He spent six months as acting chief executive of the company in 2009, during which time he started a major restructuring of Eircom's cost base following negotiations with its trade unions, and helped to scuttle Australian financier Rob Topfer's attempt to capture the business cheaply and make a second turn on Eircom. He served as acting CEO until Paul Donovan was...