Meet The Team
The Gavin Glynn Foundation (CLBG) is a registered company in Ireland with our office based in Kilcoole, Co.Wicklow.
At present, the board is comprised of:
- John Glynn (Director)
- Damian Gammell (Director)
- Sharon Walsh Gaynor Director)
- Jane McDaid (Director)
- Frank Giles MD (Medical Director)
John Glynn
Co-Founder/Director
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John’s background is in Information Security and IT, and while Gavin was in treatment he spent all his spare time reading medical articles and reaching out to other specialists from all corners of the globe to find the best treatment options for Gavin.
John has built up a large network of medical specialists from all over the world.
When Gavin passed away on 21st October 2014, John & Jayne knew that they must continue on and use their expertise and knowledge which they have gained while caring for Gavin to help other children and their families in Ireland fighting childhood cancer and continue Gavin’s legacy.
Jayne Glynn
Co- Founder and Operations Manager
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Jayne Glynn is Gavin’s mother, Co- Founder and Operations Manager for The Gavin Glynn Foundation.
Having worked in the Promotional Goods industry for over 13 years, Jayne has now chosen to take over the day to day running of TGGF.
Frank Giles MD
Medical Director
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Deputy Director Francis J. Giles, MB, MD, FRCPI, FRCPath is Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Director of the Northwestern Medicine Developmental Therapeutics Institute.
A cancer specialist with more than two decades of experience, Dr. Giles has led the development of novel drugs, immunotherapies, and other highly targeted approaches, including cancer-directed viruses, monoclonal antibodies, and molecularly directed agents.
Among his many accolades, Dr. Giles was recently elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences. He earned his primary medical degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) and a Doctorate in medicine from NUIG in 2003. He is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Pathology (United Kingdom).
Damian P Gammell
Director
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Damian Paul Gammell is the Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola European Partners PLC. (CCEP).
CCEP is the worlds largest Coca-Cola Bottler and employees over 25,000 across Western Europe.
Mr. Gammell served as the Chief Executive Officer of Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanayii Anonim Sirketi (alternate name: Anadolu Efes) at Anadolu Endüstri Holding A.S. from January 1, 2014 to October 2015 and Beverage Group President of Anadolu Group from January 1, 2014 to October 2015. Mr. Gammell served as Managing Director of Efes Soft Drink at Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanayii AS and served as its Group President of Efes Soft Drink since January 1, 2012. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Coca-Cola Icecek A.S. since January 1, 2012 until January 1, 2014. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Gammell served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Anadolu Beverage Group, one of the world’s largest beverage companies and owner of Coca-Cola Icecek.
Mr. Gammell joined Anadolu in 2010 from The Coca-Cola Company, where he served as head of the Company’s operations in Germany since 2005 and in Russia from 2001 to 2004. He has over 20 years of experience in the Coca-Cola system, Mr. Gammell has also worked in Eastern Europe, Australia, Korea, Indonesia, Turkey, and Pakistan, among other locations. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG since 2005. He held a variety of senior roles across the fields of commercial and general management both in Europe and Australia. He served as Chief Executive Officer of the bottling business in Russia from 2001 to 2004. He led the German business through increasing both volume growth and profitability, consistently over the past 6 years. Mr. Gammell served as a Director at Coca-Cola Icecek A.S. until October 2015. He served as a Director of Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanayii Anonim Sirketi since February 4, 2014 until 2015.
He is involved in a number of global non-profit initiatives. He serves on the health care committee of the World Economic Forum.
In 2009, he was nominated as Young Global Leader (YGL) of the World Economic Forum. Mr. Gammell is a graduate of the College of Marketing, Dublin. He studied for his Master of Science in change management at Oxford University and HEC Paris and graduated with an Msc in Change Management.
He has also completed programs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Jane McDaid
Director
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Jane McDaid is the founder of Thinkhouse, the youth communications agency.
With offices in Dublin and London, Thinkhouse helps global brands like Coca-Cola, Unilever, Three and Heineken Ireland connect with youth audiences around the world. With creativity and innovation at the centre of the agency’s DNA, under McDaid’s leadership Thinkhouse has hugely influenced the Irish and UK agency landscape with its fast evolving, innovative, creative and social-centric approach to communications strategies. Think house was listed as one of the World’s Leading Independent Agencies 2015 by global marketing publication, ‘Campaign’.
Jane is married to her husband and business partner David and has three children Heather, Fionnán and Limor and lives in Dublin.
www.thinkhouse.co.uk @thinkhouseUK
www.thinkhouse.ie @thinkhouseIE
Sharon Walsh Gaynor
Director
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Sharon Walsh was appointed Managing Director of HEINEKEN Ireland, effective March 1st 2023.
Sharon joined HEINEKEN Ireland as Marketing Director in 2010 after various marketing roles at United Distillers,
Diageo and Coca Cola. In this role she was instrumental in unlocking business growth through driving a portfolio
approach, a highlight being the move beyond beer into the cider category.
The successful launch of Orchard
Thieves sparked a roll out in many other countries across Europe. Sharon was appointed Global Cider Director at
HEINEKEN NV in 2016, where she further shaped the Cider category around the globe with a clear business strategy, new innovations and variety of flavours and tastes.
Sharon returned to HEINEKEN Ireland in early 2020 to take over the role of
Commercial Director. During these years, she led the sales organisation through the toughest Covid closures in Europe, truly living customer centricity, keeping energy and momentum internally with her teams, and shaping a customer and consumer first recovery plan that has led to the company coming out stronger, reflected in impressive market share growth. Under her leadership, the eB2B journey was
started being by far the preferred ordering platform in the industry.
Sharon is married to Alan and a busy mother of three boys. In her spare time, she likes to keep fit, enjoys sport, music and travel with her family.