{"id":2177,"date":"2026-04-16T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.aesc.org\/summit-americas\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2177"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:57:45","slug":"ruth-curran-2","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/events.aesc.org\/summit-americas\/blog\/speaker\/ruth-curran-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Curran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Ruth leads Spencer Stuart\u2019s global functions practices and is the Financial Officer Practice lead across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She also leads the firm\u2019s Dublin office. She is a member of the firm\u2019s CEO, CFO, Boards, Consumer, Financial Services and Private Equity practices and has more than 20 years executive search and leadership advisory experience. She is a trusted advisor, focusing on board, CEO and senior executive succession, working with private and public companies to support their strategic objectives.<\/p>\n<h4>Board and C-suite search partner<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruth joined Spencer Stuart as a result of its 2019 acquisition of MERC Partners, where she had been managing partner since 2014.<\/li>\n<li>She was responsible for creating the Board Practice within the Irish office and specialises in chair and director appointments.<\/li>\n<li>Ruth is a board director for the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC) and an EMEA Council member. She is also a member of the National Council for Ibec, Ireland&#8217;s largest lobby and business representative group. She has also served on the strategic committee for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.<\/li>\n<li>Ruth was global chair of IIC Partners from 2015 to 2018, a board member of the National Maternity Hospital Foundation up until 2020 and served on the Governing Authority of National University of Ireland, Galway for 5 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A qualified accountant (FCCA), Ruth also holds a Bachelor of Business and Commerce, and a Master&#8217;s in business studies (HRM and organisational behaviour), and was the 2016 recipient of the National University of Ireland Galway Business and Commerce Alumni of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1691,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2177","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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