Kavanagh named chief financial officer of O’Brien’s Beacon Group

Daragh Kavanagh has been appointed group chief financial officer at Denis O’Brien’s Beacon Medical Group, which is strengthening its senior management team ahead of a planned expansion.

Kavanagh is group financial controller at insulation materials group Kingspan. He previously worked with house builders McInerney Holdings as well as the ESB in Ireland and overseas.

Kavanagh is the second heavy hitter to be appointed in recent months to the Dublin-based healthcare company which plans to expand organically and through acquiring other private hospitals. Brian Fitzgerald recently left his post as chief executive of St James’s Hospital in Dublin to become deputy ...