Local Leadership
Tara Tibbs
Tara Tibbs was appointed General Manager & Senior Vice President of Manufacturing at the Kinsale site in September 2024, upon her return to Ireland. Tara joined Lilly in 2000 after earning a Chemical Engineering degree from Cornell University.
Over her 24-year career at Lilly, she has held several leadership positions in Operations, Engineering, and Health Safety & Environmental across various manufacturing sites, including Indiana, New Jersey, the Engineering Tech Center in Indianapolis, and a previous assignment in Kinsale.
She began her career in insulin API manufacturing as a process engineer and held several roles in Engineering, Operations, and HR before transitioning to leadership.
Mike Smith
Mike Smith was appointed General Manager of the GBS centres in Cork, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City in early 2019 having been with the company almost 20 years, enjoying a wide range of roles across the Finance function including assignments in Treasury, Manufacturing, Global Services and Affiliate. Part of the initial leadership team that established the GBS Cork Centre eight years ago, he then took up the role of CFO/Site Director for Eli Lilly Export SA in Geneva, Switzerland in 2011 before returning to GBS Cork in 2014.
Since then Mike has played a leading role in building capabilities outside of Finance to help partner and deliver services for Global HR, Medical, Customer Meeting Services, Global Transparency, and most recently the Clinical Development Organisation within Lilly. Mike is a qualified Chartered Accountant and completed his MBA at University College Cork.
Dave Riordan
Dave Riordan graduated from University of Limerick in 1999 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, and completed a Master’s degree in Biopharmaceutical Science at IT Sligo.
Dave joined Lilly at the Kinsale site in 2003 and since then has worked in several roles across Lilly manufacturing, including assignments in engineering and operations.
In 2012, Dave relocated to the US with his family, spending 5 years in a variety of leadership roles at corporate headquarters and at manufacturing sites in Indianapolis. Most recently, Dave provided leadership for Lilly’s insulin manufacturing site in Puerto Rico, where he was Plant Manager from 2018 to 2022.
Dave was appointed to lead the new Lilly Limerick site in May 2022.
Christopher Stokes
Christopher Stokes was appointed President and General Manager (GM) of Eli Lilly and Company UK, Ireland & Northern Europe in July 2024. Christopher leads Lilly’s commercial business operations in six countries, across the company’s current and emerging portfolio in Diabetes, Obesity, Oncology, Immunology and Neuroscience. Christopher joined Northern Europe from his previous role as General Manager of Lilly Korea, where he led the Korean affiliate to strong business results driven by new product growth.
Christopher has been at Lilly since 2008 and has held roles as GM of Lilly South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and COO of Lilly USA. He has built a reputation for expertise in the global regulatory landscape and an unfaltering commitment to patient access to innovative medicines to enhance health and enrich quality of life. He has a “better to best” mindset and brings a focus on delivering results while building and engaging strong teams with high integrity. Christopher holds a Bachelor’s degree from George Mason University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Indiana University-Bloomington.
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