HORSE Racing Ireland has appointed Suzanne Eade to the position of Group Chief Financial Officer to succeed Margaret Davin, who retires in two months’ time.

Eade joins HRI from the position of Finance Director of Boots Retail Ireland and will take up duties in late September.

ITM EXECUTIVES

The Group CFO in HRI is responsible for the financial leadership of HRI and its subsidiaries, Tote Ireland, Irish Thoroughbred Marketing (ITM) and HRI Racecourses Ltd. ITM also announced two new appointments this week. Katie Rudd takes up the position of Communications Executive and Jeremy Greene has been appointed as Marketing Executive.

Katie Rudd joins from Glanbia where she had responsibility for international sales and marketing of Gain Feeds.

Her new role will include extensive travel throughout mainland Europe and responsibility for growing European markets. She will also be a point of contact for international media.

Asian racing

Jeremy Greene, former columnist with The Irish Field, was most recently with the Hong Kong Jockey Club where he worked in horse racing media and management for 16 years.

He has extensive knowledge of Asian racing and will initially focus on these markets which include Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Japan.