Two New EGA Board Members Elected

The EGA have appointed two new members with international experience to the Board - Brendan Butler of Shell Ireland and Tina Pittock of ESB International.

 

Brendan graduated with Honours in Electrical Engineering from UCD in 1985 and joined the Shell Group in Holland where he stayed as trainee and then project engineer in Oman on  design and installation of 132KV power lines and switching stations. In 1996 he moved onto Venezuela, then Syria, then Canada and Russia as Construction Manager on the Sakhalin Project in eastern Siberia.

 

Brendan Butler

 In 2007 he was posted to Ireland as Project Manager on design and construction of the Corrib Gas Terminal in Mayo and is now Deputy Project Director for the entire project soon to be producing its first gas into the national grid.

 

Brendan represented Ireland in the European Orienteering Championships in 1981 and is into running half marathons, skiing and hillwalking. His eldest daughter is in First Engineering in UCD and Brendan is working closely with the Chemical Engineering Dept on a UCD - Shell joint enterprise.

 

 

Tina  graduated with Honours in Mechanical Engineering in UCD in 2002, did a Diploma in Project Management in TCD and had just completed her MBA in Smurfit Business School.

 

She worked first with Powerscreen International on manufacturing processes then joined ESB as Gas Turbine Site Engineer in South Africa on the Atlantis site then moving back to Ireland as Mechanical Engineer on the Aghada CCGT power plant where she ensured codes and standards were implemented.

 

Tina then transferred to a new school project in Ghana as part of ESB's corporate social responsibility organising 33 volunteer staff from ESB to complete within time and budget.

 

Tina Pittock

She subsequently saw service on power stations in Derry, Spain, Dublin Bay and Turlough Hill in Wicklow before transferring to ESB Telecons where she managed the new Ireland Wales subsea 96 fibre optic cable. More recently she worked with ESB Innovation and ESB Vodafone on 'fibre to the building' (FTTB) broadband projects in a management capacity.

 

Tina has huge voluntary work experience as Chair/Vice Chair of Electric Aid with global budget of $1.2m in Ghana and has worked also with other charities in South Afrixa, Zambia and Ireland.

 

We welcome both Tina and Brendan to the EGA Board where no doubt they will be active members.