RTÉ’s Director-General Kevin Bakhurst has announced RTÉ’s new Interim Leadership Team.
As confirmed earlier today, RTÉ’s new boss has stood down the organisation’s Executive Board, which has been replaced with a temporary interim leadership team to continue running the organisation.
The Temporary Interim Leadership Team is:
- Kevin Bakhurst, Director-General
- Eimear Cusack, Director of Human Resources
- Vivienne Flood, Head of Public Affairs*
- Mike Fives, Group Financial Controller, RTÉ*
- Adrian Lynch, Director Audiences, Channels, Marketing, and continuing as Acting Deputy DG
- Paula Mullooly, Director of Legal
- Deirdre McCarthy, Director of News & Current Affairs
- Niamh O’Connor, Deputy Director of Content*
- Conor Mullen, Head of Strategy & Commercial Compliance, RTÉ Media Sales*
- Richard Waghorn, Director of Operations and Technology
* not a member of former Executive Board
In addition, an external Corporate Governance Expert is to be recruited.
Speaking today, Kevin Bakhurst said: “In due course, there will be a new permanent leadership team.
“I want to underline that RTÉ, under my leadership and that of the re-constituted Interim Leadership Team, will be an organisation dedicated to working closely with you, to listening, to being open and transparent, to strictly adhering to revised and rigorous governance processes and procedures, to being accountable and to delivering a public service to be proud of. This will take time, but it will happen. It must. There is too much at stake.”
He continued: “I can confirm that RTÉ will publish the salaries of the Executive/permanent Interim Leadership Team along with the earnings of RTÉ’s 10 highest paid presenters in our annual report every year, starting with Annual Report 2023.”
