Cliona
Board Director | Aligning Strategy, Governance and Performance Oversight | Leadership balancing Risk & Growth
Cliona is known for her principled and considered leadership style, her strong commercial sense and her ability to combine oversight with decisiveness. An excellent communicator, in the boardroom, she brings clarity, depth and constructive challenge. Cliona is always focused on protecting what matters most while enabling sustainable growth.
About Cliona
I am a former Vice-President Research & Development at PepsiCo with over 25 years experience in the Food & Beverage sector and a track record of delivering growth from innovation in the UK, Europe, China and Asia Pacific and digitising and strengthening assurance systems including as Vice-President Global Quality Assurance. Currently an advisor to companies, the Irish Development Agency and EnterpriseIreland and an adjunct Profesor at University College Cork
A Chartered Director with over a decade of boardexperience on public sector and subsidiary company boards and currently serving as a Directorof Bord Bia, the Irish Food Marketing Organisation and as a Trustee of The Irish Red Cross. Known at the board level for for aligning strategy, governance and performance oversight and for risk and crisis management.
My executive background in Research & Development, Supply Chain and Global Quality Assurance and my former roles on Business Leadershipteams allows me tounderstand organisations end-to-endand from the factory floor to the boardroom. My board experience enables me to distill complexity into the few keyissues and metrics that matter at the board table and C-suite to manage riskand enable sustainable growth.
What i stand for
I believe strong governance is fundamentally about protection, protecting long-term enterprise value and growth, protecting consumers, brands, reputation and the bottom line.
My focus is on enabling considered yet decisive decision-making helping organisations clarify accountability, strengthen oversight frameworks and align strategy with regulatory and commercial realitiesto create the conditions for responsible, sustainable growth.
What i have delivered
Throughout my career, I have enabled organisations, be they commercial businesses, state agencies or global industry initiatives, to strengthen governance and drive performance.
As Global Vice President Quality Assurance at PepsiCo this included transforming global QA through digitisation, capabilitybuilding and modernised governance structures linked to enterprise risk management. This safeguarded PepsiCo’s brands, reputation and regulatory integrity across more than 200 markets while enabling over $1billion in annual innovation-driven growth.
In my board roles, this included contributing to enhanced transparency, strengthened audit and oversight practices, supporting long-term strategic planning and ensuring organisations are structurally equipped to protect value while pursuing growth.
Skills and focus
- Corporate governance & Risk Management
- Aligning strategy, governance and performance oversight
- Protection of brand, reputation and regulatory integrity
- Global quality assurance transformation
- Strategic growth enablement
- Accountability, transparency and ethical leadership
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Cliona
Cliona is known for her principled and considered leadership style, her strong commercial sense and her ability to combine oversight with decisiveness. An excellent communicator, in the boardroom, she brings clarity, depth and constructive challenge. Cliona is always focused on protecting what matters most while enabling sustainable growth.
Eric
Eric is known as a connector: someone who listens deeply, understands different perspectives, and brings clarity to complex stakeholder environments. He combines strategic vision with strong execution, ensuring that quality and food safety strategies are not only well designed, but truly embedded within the organisation.
Hans
Hans is known for his analytical precision, his ability to bring structure to complex systems, and his focus on solutions that are both impactful and economically sound. He prioritises substance over rhetoric and consistently aims for strategies that withstand critical scrutiny and are truly implementable.
Matilda
Matilda is known for her passion, focus and unwavering standards in quality and food safety. She is also recognized as strong business leader and partner. She brings scientific rigor, strategic clarity and a deeply personal dedication to protecting consumers. Ensuring that safe food is not only a requirement, but a lived value across the organisation.
Roy
Roy is known for his principled leadership, direct communication style, and unwavering commitment to integrity. He brings clarity to complex risk landscapes, always grounded in consumer protection, transparency, and trust.