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Our Advisory Group
Lar Bradshaw
Exwell's Board Chairman
Lar Bradshaw spent the majority of his career with McKinsey & Co, joining the firm in London, and enjoying stints in Paris, Milan and Boston. He was a Director of the worldwide firm for many years. In 1994 he set up the Irish practice of the firm, which he led until he “retired” in 2004. Lar was Chairman of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority from 1997 to 2007, Chairman of Centric Health from inception until 2010, and has chaired / acted as non-exec Director for several companies in both the public and private arenas. He was also a director of Orbis Ireland for several years. He currently advises a number of companies and continues to serve on several boards. He is a lifelong friend of Dr Noel McCaffrey.
Dr Noel McCaffrey
CEO of ExWell Medical
Dr. Noel McCaffrey is ExWell's CEO. He is a Sports and Exercise Medicine specialist, former DCU lecturer, Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine and Consultant in Sports Medicine in Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital. He led the development and growth of ExWell's predecessor programme (called MedEx) in DCU for 11 years. Noel left DCU to ‘follow the dream’ and founded ExWell Medical as a social enterprise to roll out the rebranded ExWell programme nationally. In 2022, Noel was honoured when named as a United National Decade of Healthy Aging Top 50 World Leader.
Anne Dermody
Board Member
Anne Dermody has had a long career in Sales and Marketing. She spent the majority of her career as Head of Sales and Marketing for the global toy and game company Hasbro. Her most recent position was Business Development Director with Rethink Ireland where she led the fundraising team to raise €75m over a 6 year period. It was through this role that she met Dr Noel McCaffrey and became inspired by his work with ExWell. Anne is passionate about the power of exercise and coaches an ID Team at Botanic Hockey Club.
Professor Sean Kennelly
Board Member
Professor Sean Kennelly MB PhD FRCP(Lond) FRCPI, is a consultant physician in geriatric and stroke medicine and clinical lead for the community integrated care team for older people in Tallaght University Hospital. He is director of the tertiary referral memory service at TUH, hospital clinical lead for the ExWell program in Tallaght Leisure Centre, clinical associate professor of medical gerontology in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and principal investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. One of his main research interests is Alzheimer’s disease, and he was co-principal investigator on the first Irish National Audit of Dementia (INAD) care in acute hospitals. He is a faculty member for the global brain health institute in TCD, a member of the clinical and research advisory panel for the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland and associate dean of higher specialty training in general internal medicine in the RCPI.
Susan Smith
Board Member
Susan Smith is Professor of General Practice at Trinity College Dublin and works as a General Practitioner at Inchicore Family Doctors in Dublin 8. Her research interests include improving outcomes for patients with multimorbidity and related clinical issues such as medicines management, including access to medicines. She has been the PI or Co-PI on eight RCTs of interventions for chronic disease management in Irish primary care settings. She is an editor and author with the Cochrane Collaboration and is an advocate for Evidence Based Medicine and Shared Decision Making. She also has an interest in health equity and coordinates the Deep End Ireland Group, which advocates for appropriate primary care services for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. During the COVID-19 pandemic she has been a member of the HIQA COVID19 Expert Advisory Group, which provides evidence-based guidance to inform public policy and guidance.
Clive Kilmurray
Board Member
Clive Kilmurray has 20 years’ experience in corporate finance, private equity, and real estate. He most recently co-founded two businesses, OSLO Beauty which focuses on hair and beauty services (and includes a health studio), and OROKO Travel, a luxury travel specialist. Prior to this he was a co-founder and director of Cove Capital, a Dublin based Private Equity vehicle. He also has extensive experience in property investment and development as principal, and has advised many of Ireland’s leading companies whilst working in investment banking with IBI. He is a former board member of numerous private companies and a former non-executive director of Easons.
Chris Kelly
Board Member
Chris Kelly is a retired senior executive with CRH Group. A chemical engineer by profession, he worked in various management roles with CRH over 38 years, based in Ireland, Africa, and China, implementing Operational Excellence programmes and leading technical due diligence teams in China, Vietnam, Spain and North America. After retiring in 2013 he worked as a consultant in China at the request of CRH’s Joint Venture partner in 2014/15, advising the Country Director and the Operational Excellence team. He led cement company acquisition technical due diligence teams in Philippines, Brazil and South Africa, focused on mining and on all aspects of cement plant operations from quarry to dispatch. Chris is a ‘nuts and bolts’ man, with extensive management, mentoring and leadership experience through growth / recession cycles in business. He has also worked in the International Aid and charity fundraising sectors in Africa. Chris currently attends the ExWell programme.
David Beirne
Board Member
David Beirne is former Vice President of UPMC International and Country Manager for UPMC in
Ireland. In this role he had responsibility for overseeing the growth of UPMC in Ireland and
internationally. Previously, he worked in finance leadership roles with McInerney Plc, Glanbia Plc
and PriceWaterhouseCoopers and also served as CEO at the Whitfield Clinic. David has been a
strong supporter of ExWell since meeting Noel six years ago and continues to have hands-on
role supporting Noel and the entire ExWell team
Diarmuid McNamee
Board Member
Diarmuid McNamee is Managing Director of TowerView, an investment and advisory firm in Dublin specialising in the health and social care sector across Ireland and the UK. TowerView advises and invests in growing Irish companies across all healthcare sub-sectors. Diarmuid was Group CFO with the Mater Private Healthcare Group for 9 years, during which the Group developed new healthcare facilities in a number of new locations and also set up and successfully operated cancer centre facilities in the UK. Previously, Diarmuid was a Director of Corporate Finance with NCB, advising Irish and international clients on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity fundraisings and strategic developments. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and operates as Chairman and Board director of a number of companies and is also a Board Director and a member of the Audit & Risk Committee of Dublin Simon.
Grainne McMorrow
Board Member
Grainne McMorrow is an International Human Rights Lawyer and Jurist. She is also a
Senior Counsel and Professor of Law (Adjunct ) at UCG. She is an adviser to and
former Member of the Council of Europe Venice Commission for Democracy
Through Law. She is Adjunct Professor of Law at the National University of Ireland,
Galway. Her previous roles include Visiting Fellow in Comparative Human Rights La
Trobe University Melbourne (1992), Chair of the International Association of Irish
Lawyers, London (1996), Mental Health Act Commissioner at Broadmoor Special
Hospital, UK (1994-1998), member of the National Crime Council Ireland (2007-2009)
and Chair of the Mental Health Commission Review Tribunals (Ireland) (2006-2010).
Grainne has also been an ExWell participant.
Annette Kent
Board Member
Annette Kent has over 25 years of leadership experience in the pharmaceutical and medical
device sectors. She is currently Clinical Director with Endowave, an early-stage medical
device company developing a minimally invasive treatment for lung cancer and previously
held a similar role at FIRE1, where she contributed to the development of innovative
solutions for chronic disease management. Annette has worked with renowned
organizations including ICON, Amgen, and United Drug, gaining extensive expertise in
clinical research, biotechnology, and healthcare solutions. Passionate about driving
innovation and improving patient outcomes, Annette leverages her strong collaborative
abilities to work closely with key stakeholders, clinicians and advisors in her ambition to
fostering impactful medical advancements. She holds a PhD in Pharmacology and completed
the BioInnovate Medical Device Innovation Fellowship in 2016.
Patrick Magee
Board Member
Patrick Magee is Director of IT at Trinity College Dublin where he is accountable for the
management and security of the critical digital services delivered to more than 4,000 staff,
22,000 students and 1,000,000 visitors across the historic 43 acre city centre campus and
20 other locations. This includes support and delivery of change programmess to advance
the university’s strategic mission.
Patrick has held a number of board, general management, operational as well as IT
leadership roles across his current position and previously with global financial services
organisations in Ireland and abroad. He has held positions as a Global Delivery Services
Executive; CIO for emerging countries; and Head of IT for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Patrick is an alumnus of Dublin City University and also serves as a member of the board of
the HEAnet group and is on Ibec’s AI and Digital Affairs committee. He is inspired by the
ExWell mission and the commitment and lived values of the team.