Board of Laya Healthcare is formally unveiled at new Dublin office

 Pictured L to R - D.O. O'Connor, Larry O'Dwyer, Brenda Ryan, Kieran Barry, Dr. Ann O'Doherty, Dónal Clancy, Mary Condon and Brendan Tuohy.

Monday, December 17th, 2012. Laya healthcare’s seven member Board of Directors has been formally unveiled at the company’s new Dublin office in Fitzwilliam Hall. The new base in the heart of Dublin will be home to members of laya healthcare’s Corporate Sales and Occupational Health (Health@Work) teams.

The Board is led by Chairman and Non-Executive Director, Kieran Barry, former Managing Director in Ireland with Hewitt Associates. The Board includes three Executive Directors from laya healthcare’s senior management team - Dónal Clancy, Managing Director, D.O. O’Connor, Deputy Managing Director & Director of Business Development and Mary Condon, Director of Finance.

The three remaining Board members are Non-Executive Directors, Brendan Tuohy, Former Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Larry O’Dwyer, a former partner at Ernst & Young and current member of the Audit Committees of University College Cork and Cork County Council and Dr. Ann O’Doherty, Clinical Director, BreastCheck, Dublin and Consultant Radiologist, St. Vincent’s Hospital.

Brenda Ryan, laya's Director of Operations, has been appointed the new Company Secretary. Brenda helped steer the management-led buyout of QUINN-healthcare in December 2011. She joined BUPA Ireland in 2000 and is an experienced member of the senior management team.

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Kieran Barry signaled a bright future ahead for laya healthcare: “This is a hugely exciting time for the team and the members of laya healthcare. At our launch on May 14^th, we pledged ourselves to looking after our members always and we will strive hard to fulfill that promise. We also announced our intention to expand the business, with plans to add 100 new jobs over a three year period. I’m delighted to confirm that 30 additional people have already been recruited since the launch with further recruitment planned”.

Laya healthcare is the second largest provider of private health insurance in Ireland, with more than 450,000 members. The company officially launched on May 14^th heralding a new era in Irish private health insurance. The company has positioned itself as the consumer champion in the private health insurance market with its brand promise - ‘Looking After You Always’. This represents laya healthcare’s member-centric approach which is fundamental to its vision and values.

Laya healthcare’s senior management team, led by Managing Director and Board member, Dónal Clancy, has extensive experience in the healthcare industry both in Ireland and internationally. Most of the senior team have been with the organisation since it originally launched as BUPA Ireland in 1997.

Laya healthcare’s policies are underwritten by Elips Insurance Ltd. (trading as laya healthcare), a wholly owned subsidiary of Swiss Re. The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of 56 offices globally and is rated “AA” by Standard & Poor’s. Its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid to large-sized corporations and public sector clients.