| Who’s who in Finance:Ted McGovern, Chief Executive, EBS Building Society |
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Ted McGovern
Chief Executive, EBS Building Society
Email: ted.mcgovern@ebs.ie
Current responsibilities: Setting the strategic direction of the Society. Leading a team to achieve ambitious market and financial targets while building a distinctive organisation focused on providing superior long-term value to members.
Education: Third level: Glasgow University, Bachelor of Accountancy, 1974; Second level: St Mungo’s Academy, Glasgow.
Other qualifications: Chartered accountant
Professional memberships: FCA - Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland; FIB; Fellow of the Institute of Bankers - Marketing Society.
Career progress: 1974- trainee chartered accountant, Deloittes; 1978- audit manager, Duignan & Co, chartered accountants; 1982 - relationship manager and then head of corporate banking, First National Bank of Chicago; 1985- Marketing manager and then assistant general manager marketing and business operations, ICS Building Society; 1990- head of strategic marketing, Bank of Ireland retail division; 1992 Head of competitive positioning, Bank of Ireland Group; 1995 - managing director, ICS Building Society and general manager Bank of Ireland Mortgage Business; 2000- chief executive designate, EBS Building Society; 2001 - chief executive, EBS Building Society.
Personal: Date of birth: 10/08/53; Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland; Family: wife Mary, children David (17) and Jennie (14).
Social & sporting memberships: Royal Irish Yacht Club, Charlesland Golf Club.
Interests: Travel, movies, reading, collecting trivia, watching the kids grow up.
Recommended books: Good to Great, Jim Collins, Barbarians at the Gate, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. Fermat’s Last Theorem, Simon Singh, Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Woulfe. |
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| Article appeared in the November 2002 issue.
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