Board members
Eileen McHugh
Founder & CEO
Eileen McHugh is the founder and innovator behind Hair Together. With experience as an international stylist, barber, and educator, she has worked at major events like Paris and Copenhagen Fashion Weeks. As well as many years running her own highly successful business.
Eileen created Hair Together to address unemployment, mental health challenges, and substance misuse in Dublin’s Northside communities. She developed a 10-week personal development program that has helped young people reconnect with education and supported women leaving the prison system to build confidence, learn new skills, and find community.
Advocate for Social Change: Eileen’s passion and commitment to helping those most in need have made her a respected advocate for social change, influencing policy and practice within Ireland and beyond.
Eileen continues to innovate for social change and how best to serve & support her community.
David Campbell
Advisory Director
David Campbell is the director of House of Colour hair group ,David is also a director and head coach of The Salon Edge who mentor hair and beauty business throughout Ireland and the UK.
David is also an author of a book aimed at hair salon apprentices in the industry (Headstart)
David is also the longest serving former president of the Irish Hairdressers Federation.
David is also a 2 x time Irish Hairdressers Federation Icon Award Winner.
David has also received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Hairdressers Federation for his work with government on launching the Hairdressing National Apprenticeship.
David was part of the original CSG for the National Hair Apprenticeship.
Tracy Keogh
Non Exec Chairperson
Tracy is an experienced founder and CEO in the non profit sector. She holds 4 board seats and has led growing businesses from 0-1+ million ARR. Tracy joined Hair Together having been completely inspired by the founding team, the vision, and the people that have gone through the programmes. Her role is to drive the creation of a board that can govern, inspect and challenge in order to fulfil the immediate goal of a thriving home for Hair Together, and an organisation that has lasting impact.
Amanda-Jayne Comyn
Advisory Director
Amanda works as a Tax Advisor in www.ciruclo.ie. Circulo is a boutique advisory firm, dedicated to offering full circle, straight-forward and comprehensive professional advice to both corporates and individuals that is underpinned by tax expertise.
Amanda is a Barrister-at-law and a Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA). She has extensive experience in the field of tax having worked in leading legal firms and large accountancy practices, mostly recently as a tax partner with Philip Lee and prior to that as tax director with Grant Thornton.
Amanda’s expertise is in advising on the commercial and tax aspects of M&As and restructuring including shareholder matters. She advises on corporate transactions having considerable experience in mergers and corporate reorganisations. She also advises individuals in estate and retirement planning, trusts, insolvency and all aspects of property transactions with specialised experience in stamp duty and stamp duty planning.
Amanda has an expanse of technical writing experience having authored and co-authored a number of publications including Bloomsbury’s Irish Law of Stamp Duty and the Irish Taxation Institute’s Corporate Transactions: Tax and Legal Issues.
Gilliane Quinn De Schonen
Non Exec Director
Gilliane Quinn de Schonen has a background in retailing. She was President and Managing Director of a chain of juice bars throughout France and Europe, operating under the Zumo brand until 2023. She has a background in consulting and food marketing based in Paris. She started her career with Bain and Company in London and Paris, and subsequently specialised in importing food products from Ireland and France into the French distributors such as Auchan, Monoprix, Intermarché and Carrefour. In 2000 she co-founded Novalenext, a prospective marketing company which worked on new retail concepts such as Daily Monop in addition to showcasing new food trends at the SIAL Trade fair. She was President of NetworkIrlande, the network of Irish professionals in France, which was created in 2010. Gilliane was a Non-Executive Director of Superquinn, the family supermarket chain for 10 years until the sale of the company in 2005.
Gilliane was the Chairperson of the Trinity College Dublin Association and Trust until 2021 and is a Trustee of the Quinn Family Foundation. She studied Business in Trinity College Dublin and holds a diploma in Corporate Governance from the CGI.
Padraig Fitzgerald
Non Exec Director
Pádraig Fitzgerald is a passionate advocate for community development and social impact. As Community Investment Manager with SSE, he leads the creation and management of transformative community funding programmes across Ireland. His role involves working hand-in-hand with local organisations and key stakeholders to identify and support innovative projects that foster social, economic, and environmental sustainability for communities in Ireland.
Previously, Pádraig was Head of Health at Rethink Ireland, where he developed and implemented funding strategies to support organisations working to improve youth mental health and wellbeing. Before working in philanthropy and grant funding, Pádraig worked in the NGO sector for years as International Programmes Manager for The Hope Foundation, and was responsible for the programme management of the organisation’s 60 projects in West Bengal, India, that supported vulnerable communities with healthcare, education and vocational training programmes. His efforts earned him recognition as one of the “Top 40 Under 40 Leaders” promoting EU-India relations by the Europe/India Centre for Business & Industry.
Pádraig holds a BA in History & Philosophy from NUI Maynooth and an MA in International Relations from UCC.
In his spare time, Pádraig is a huge sports fan. He coaches underage soccer, rugby and camogie teams and still plays soccer when his knees allow him to! He is a huge fan of the outdoors and is an avid hiker and also has a keen interest in gardening and rewilding.