About

Suzanne Young is Director of Governance & Support Operations. Previously, Suzanne held the position of Senior HR Manager with the CEA, during the latter months of which she discharged the responsibilities of the Director of Governance & Support Operations role on an acting-up basis. Prior to that, Suzanne held a number of positions in the private sector, including having responsibility, in the multinational sector, for HR matters across multiple jurisdictions. Suzanne’s experience also includes credit management, e-commerce, and business process outsourcing, as well as compliance with public sector obligations. Suzanne holds a CIPD-accredited Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Human Resource Management Strategy and Practice from the National College of Ireland. In addition, she holds a postgraduate Professional Certificate in Governance from the Institute of Public Administration. 

Andrew Harbison is Director of Digital Investigations & Analytics. Andrew is one of the most experienced practitioners in the fields of digital investigations and electronic discovery in Ireland. Over the last 25 years, has successfully completed over 1,000 IT forensic and cyber incident response investigations as well as several hundred electronic discovery projects, including the largest ever conducted in Ireland. He established the Irish IT Forensic Investigations groups in three separate professional services firms and has carried out investigations, and supported legal cases, throughout Europe and in Asia, Australia, and the US.

Andrew also has expertise in cyber security, data protection and incident management. He has published extensively on IT forensics, electronic litigation, cyber security, computer fraud, and data privacy including recently, several academic articles on electronic litigation and information retrieval. He holds a BE in Electronic Engineering and two Masters degrees, in Business Administration and Computer Science. He has worked as a lecturer in both University College Dublin (in Digital Forensics) and Trinity College Dublin (in Operations Management). He also lectures on Diploma courses at the Law Society of Ireland, the Kings Inns and for Interpol. He is a member of Engineers Ireland, the IEEE, the Society for Computers and Law, and the UK Academy of Experts.

Cathy Shivnan is Director of Insolvency Supervision. Cathy qualified as a solicitor in 2011 and holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from University College Dublin. She also holds a postgraduate Diploma in Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring from the Law Society of Ireland and an Advanced Diploma in Corporate, White–Collar and Regulatory Crime (The Honorable Society of King’s Inns).

Prior to joining the CEA, Cathy worked with the Courts Service and in various roles in the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including as a solicitor in the Commercial & Litigation team of the Revenue Solicitor’s Division and as Head of Revenue’s Dublin Insolvency Unit, where she managed all aspects of Revenue’s involvement in liquidations, receiverships and examinerships.

Michael Dillon is Director of Legal. He read law at UCD where he also completed a Doctorate in Criminal law. As a barrister in Ireland, Michael has practised widely in criminal law, commercial law, administrative law, judicial review, and constitutional law. He served as the sole Deputy Attorney General to the UK Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands and as the de facto Deputy Secretary General for the Ministerial portfolio of its Lands Division for over four years.

He has represented the US Government in extradition cases involving Ponzi scheme fraudsters, human trafficking and smuggling cases. More recently, Michael led a construction and litigation team in a leading Dubai law firm in its common law jurisdictions. Michael is the author of the leading criminal law textbook on the Law of Intoxication.

Mary Daly is Director of Finance & ICT. Mary joined the CEA’s predecessor organisation as a Forensic Accountant, having previously practised in a private capacity. Over the course of her career, Mary has held a variety of senior financial roles within publicly listed multinational organisations, both in Ireland and the UK. Her responsibilities extended to statutory, management & regulatory reporting, financial systems implementation and enhancement and the development and management of a number of global internal control projects.

A Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), Mary holds a first class honours Master's degree in Law from Technological University Dublin as well as postgraduate Diplomas in Forensic Accounting (Chartered Accountants Ireland) and Corporate, White-collar & Regulatory Crime (The Honorable Society of King’s Inns).

Fallon Judge is Director of Civil Enforcement. Previously, Fallon was a Senior Forensic Accountant with the CEA and in that role acquired extensive experience in both civil and criminal investigation. Prior to that, Fallon worked with an international accountancy firm, where she specialised in the areas of insolvency and corporate recovery. In addition to being a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Fallon is a member of the Irish Tax Institute.

Fallon also holds postgraduate Diplomas in Corporate, White-Collar & Regulatory Crime (The Honorable Society of King’s Inns), Forensic Accounting (Chartered Accountants Ireland) and Insolvency (Chartered Accountants Ireland) as well as a B.Sc.in Architecture (Queens University Belfast).