Sharon joins the Gowan Board having spent more than a decade with Diageo PLC, based in the UK, where she was most recently the Group Controller. Prior to that Head of Investor Relations, Group Treasurer and Finance and Strategy Director for Western Europe. Prior to that Sharon worked with the telecoms company Nortel, in multiple locations across Europe and the USA. Sharon holds a Business Studies degree from DCU and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Sharon is also a Non-Executive Director with the John Lewis Partnership.