Fiona Hackett, Co-Chairperson

Fiona Hackett is an artist, academic tutor, and researcher based in Dublin. She holds a PhD in Photography from the UCD Clinton Institute of American Studies, University College, Dublin – completed with a scholarship funded by the Irish Research Council. As an artist, she has exhibited in the DLR Lexicon, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Mermaid Arts Centre, and as part of EV+A International, among others, and she is the recipient of the Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Award, RHA 189th Exhibition. She teaches theory and practice at a leading third-level institute, and she carries out research on photography and geological science, and others subjects. Various project-based consulting assignments, in particular in the areas of executive career coaching and development, change management and people development. She has also a background as an organisational psychologist.

Marcos Zubrzycki, Co-Chairperson

Marcos is a certified public accountant dedicated to the asset and wealth management industry. Marcos joined PwC in 1999, and has worked in the New York, Boston, and Puerto Rico offices during his 20+ years career. He served as an Employee Benefits Plans Specialist from 2005 to 2014 and has participated in internal quality control audits in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia over the last 10 years. Marcos joined the PwC Ireland Asset and Wealth Management team in January 2015 and currently co-leads the PwC Ireland Global Fund Distribution Services group. Marcos is a member of the Irish Funds Other-EU Fund Distribution working group and is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Council of PwC Ireland. Marcos was born in Montreal, grew up in Puerto Rico, and has a bachelor’s degree in both accounting and history from Boston College and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. As an amateur photographer, Marcos is interested in documenting the ever-changing face of Dublin as a culturally diverse city and international economic hub.

David O’Flynn

David O’Flynn is a management accountant who has worked mainly in the public and commercial semi-state sectors in Ireland. He is currently the Registrar and Chief Officer of the Dental Council Ireland, which is the regulatory agency for the dental profession in Ireland. He is responsible for managing the operations of the Council to ensure that it meets its obligations to protect the public and to manage its operations in line with good corporate governance procedures.

He became interested in photography almost twenty-five years ago and he holds degree in photography from Griffith College Dublin. Photography has been an active pastime for him, and he has had two books of photography published commercially in Ireland by the History Press. He also has been collecting Irish portrait photography books for about ten years. He is from Dublin.

Lorcan Gogan

Lorcan Gogan is a solicitor, now retired from practice. He was formerly the Law Agent and County Solicitor for one of the largest Local Authorities in the State following a long career in private practice and the Public Service. He has a particular interest in administrative law, regulatory law, and compliance issues.

Anne James

Anne James is a Dublin-based publisher, digital marketing consultant and artist of Portuguese and American nationality. She has edited and solicited work for Ploughshares and St. Petersburg Review and in 2012 she founded Zymbol, an internationally-distributed magazine of contemporary literature, photography and painting. She served on the board of New England Poetry Club at Harvard University from 2012-2016, and volunteers as a fundraising consultant to Threshold, Ireland’s national housing charity. In her marketing career, she has worked with both well-known Irish firms and high-growth startups, including Arthur Cox, Fields the Jeweller, UrbanVolt and Boxever. She holds a degree in cultural anthropology from Boston University (2009) and completed her master’s in visual and material culture at the University of Edinburgh (2011). An avid collector of photography, paintings, monographs and art ephemera, she recently began practicing professionally as an artist. She is currently researching the relationship between painting, photography and the attention economy in the Art and Research Collaboration (ARC) programme at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT).

Gordon Jamieson

Gordon Jamieson is a senior fundraising and business development professional based in Maynooth, Ireland. With extensive experience in fundraising and the Irish higher education sector, Gordon has held managerial roles at Maynooth University, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Trinity College Dublin. He joined Maynooth University as Senior Development Manager in February 2023, moving from RCSI where he was Head of Corporate Relationships for 5 years. Gordon holds a BA in Business Studies from Edinburgh Napier University. Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Gordon has an interest in sports and Photography.

David Kronn

Dr David Kronn is an Irish-born paediatrician with a specialty in medical genetics, who lives and works in New York. Dr Kronn has built an extraordinary photography collection over the past twenty years, which is a promised gift to the Irish Museum of Modern Art to be enjoyed by the Irish public into the future. The overall donation substantially increases IMMA’s photographic holdings and provide an historical, contextual and expanding framework essential for the understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary photography.

Mark Shiel

Mark Shiel is Professor of Film, Media, and Urban Studies at King’s College London. As well as teaching on those subjects, he has published five books, including Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles (2014), which won the Urban Communication Foundation’s Jane Jacobs Award for Best Book, and Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968 (2018), which was named an Outstanding Title by the American Library Association. Mark studied literature and theatre at Trinity College Dublin before completing a PhD on cinema and geography at the University of London in 1999. He is active in arts and media programming, curating, and public speaking, most recently with the Getty Research Institute and Irish Architecture Foundation.

Mark is also co-director of MediaUrbanism, an Irish-American research firm and creative studio focused on media and cities. This work includes sectoral analysis, data visualisation, cartography, and architectural photography and filmmaking. His most recent film is the 30-minute documentary Madingley (2024), about the architecture and landscape design of war memorials.