About

Since being formed in 1997 out of the merger of Avonmore Foods and Waterford Foods, Glanbia has developed into a global nutrition company which sells or distributes its products in over 130 countries and boasts an annual turnover of €3.6bn. An employee of the company since 2002 and group general counsel since 2006, Michael O’Hara has been involved in various activities that have assisted Glanbia to grow exponentially during the course of his time there. Examples of key projects worked on include overseeing the strategic acquisitions of Amazing Grass in the US and Body & Fit in the Netherlands worth €181m in total. More recently, O’Hara played a vital role in the sale of a 60% stake in Glanbia’s Dairy Ireland subsidiary to Glanbia Co-op as part of a strategic initiative that ‘will bring together Glanbia Group’s Irish dairy and agri-businesses under single ownership and will enable Glanbia to continue to focus on its two growth platforms of Glanbia Performance Nutrition and Glanbia Nutritionals’, according to an official source. During his 15-year association with the company, O’Hara has demonstrated his business-oriented approach by taking on a number of roles for the Group’s subsidiaries. These have included serving eleven years as chairman of Glanbia Enterprise Fund, a venture capital JV with Enterprise Ireland, and O’Hara bearing ultimate responsibility for managing the Glanbia Estates’ property portfolio in Ireland. He graduated in law from Trinity College, Dublin in 1984 and has an MBA from University College Dublin. O’Hara is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator.