Tom Tynan

Background

About Tom Tynan

Experienced executive who worked across a range of agri-business and policy areas holding a variety of senior management roles, latterly Commercial Director and Chief Operating Officer. Experience spans commercial, strategy, operations and advisory. Currently Special Advisor to Timmy Dooley, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and the Marine with special responsibility for Fisheries, and as Minister of State at the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment with special responsibility for the Marine. Previously served as a Non-Executive Director of the Marine Institute (ROI), Shannon Foynes Port Company (ROI) and Agri-Food Bioscience Institute (Northern Ireland). Also held posts on the Board of Teagasc (Ireland’s Agriculture & Food Development Authority), Agri-Aware and the Scientific Advisory Board of Alltech. Member of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Ireland. European Commission Member of Cabinet who served over six years in EU Commissioner’s Trade and Agriculture & Rural Development Cabinets. Previously acted as Special Adviser to the Irish Minister of Agriculture, Food & Forestry in the Irish government. Educated at University College Dublin (UCD), Harper Adams University College Shropshire, Chartered Accountants Ireland and UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. UCD 2015 Alumni Award winner from the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science.