The Board of Directors of Aer Lingus Group plc appointed Colm Barrington as Chairman of the Board. Mr Barrington will succeed John Sharman as Chairman. He will be appointed to the board in September and will then assume the role of Chairman.
Colm Barrington is Chief Executive Officer and a director of Babcock and Brown Air Limited, the NYSE listed, Irish based, aircraft leasing company. He was formerly Managing Director of Babcock and Brown in Dublin from 1994 to 2007. Prior to that he held a number of senior executive management positions in GPA Group Plc from 1979 to 1993 and was appointed President of GE Capital Aviation Services Limited following its acquisition of GPA Group Plc.
