In this biography
Quick facts
- Born
- Not established
- Birthplace
- Not established
- Country
- Ireland
- Nationality
- Not independently established
- Known for
- Glanbia group leadership
- Education
- UCD commerce, 1984
- Executive transition
- Stepped down 31 December 2023
Why this life matters
Her progression joined accounting and strategic planning with group management and later non-executive responsibilities.
Timeline
Key moments
Joined the group
Began a sequence of finance roles.
Group management
Became Group Managing Director.
Retirement completed
Left group employment on 26 January.
Accountancy and an international apprenticeship
Siobhán Talbot graduated from UCD with a commerce degree in 1984 and a postgraduate accounting diploma in 1985. She worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dublin and Sydney before joining the group in 1992. Its 2011 report records successive finance posts, including Deputy Group Finance Director from June 2005.
That sequence makes the financial function a substantial career stage, rather than a brief preface to a chief executive appointment.
Sources for this section: [1]
From finance to group management
She joined Glanbia’s board on 1 July 2009.
CRH’s biography describes her finance-director responsibilities as including strategic planning, and dates her appointment as Glanbia Group Managing Director to 2013.
During her executive tenure, the 2017 results record the acquisition of Amazing Grass in the United States and Body & Fit in the Netherlands. These added plant-based nutrition brands and a direct-to-consumer performance-nutrition business respectively. The transactions provide concrete examples of the group’s international nutrition strategy, without assigning the whole organisation’s work to one executive.
A decade of change and a planned succession
On 16 August 2023, Glanbia announced that Talbot intended to retire after ten years as Group Managing Director. It named Hugh McGuire, then leading Glanbia Performance Nutrition, as the incoming CEO from 1 January 2024. Talbot stepped down from her position and the board on 31 December 2023.
The subsequent remuneration report records her final retirement from group employment on 26 January 2024.
Announcement, end of the executive office and end of employment are therefore three dates rather than competing answers to a single question.
Board work beyond the executive office
Talbot joined CRH’s board in December 2018. Its selected profile records non-management service and an external directorship at Ingredion, alongside her accountancy fellowship and UCD qualifications.
Her trajectory connects training, finance, strategy, executive management and board oversight. It also shows why a career can continue outside the company with which a person is most closely associated. Old executive titles should remain attached to their dates.
Sources for this section: [2]
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions about Siobhán Talbot
- Did the announcement date end her employment?
- No. The subsequent report records her final retirement on 26 January 2024, after stepping down from the board and executive position.
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Sources and further reading
Explore the evidence
These references support the biography and offer further reading. Official records, first-person accounts and independent reporting provide different perspectives; image records document attribution and licensing.
- 1. Glanbia2011 Annual Report: Siobhán Talbot biography
Selected indexed board biography; age is not converted into a precise birth date.
- 2. CRHSiobhán Talbot: board biography
Selected board biography, read as a dated institutional record. Birth town and year remain unverified.
- 3. GlanbiaGlanbia announces CEO appointment, 16 August 2023
Announcement of the planned succession, distinct from subsequent completion.
- 4. Glanbia2023 Annual Report: Talbot retirement remuneration paragraph
Selected actual indexed retirement paragraph, not a complete remuneration-report reading.
- 5. Glanbia2017 full-year results: strategic initiatives, printed3
Selected original PDF page 4, printed page 3: named acquisitions and their product channels; not the complete release.
