Management team

Evelyn O’Toole

Evelyn is an entrepreneur, scientist, and business leader. A native of Clifden, County Galway, she founded Complete Laboratory Solutions (CLS) in 1994. Evelyn leads the company’s strategic direction, vision, and values, shaping its market sectors, solutions offerings, and competitive differentiation.

Caroline Clancy

A native of Galway, Caroline is a commercially focused and qualified Financial Accountant (BBS ACCA) with over 13 years of experience across industry and accountancy practice.

Anne O’Donnell

A native of Donegal, Anne joined CLS in 1998 after working in both the medical device and food industries. She gives guidance to over 40 microbiologists and successfully coordinated CLS’s microbiological sampling and testing services to market leader level.

Derek Darcy

A native of Galway, Derek joined CLS in 2023 bringing a wealth of knowledge in strategic business leadership from work in global markets spanning Australia, America and the UK, managing geographically dispersed teams.

Paula Farrell

With over 20 years of commercial and operational experience, Paula leads the Food and Environmental department at CLS.

Ken Hennessy

Ken actively creates new innovative solutions for our customers through project management & development of the CLS Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). He has developed a state of the art online reporting function so clients’ can access reports in real time.

Elaine O’Neill

Elaine is a senior HR professional with over 20 years’ experience, mainly in the MedTech sector.  She started her career in recruitment before moving into in-house HR roles where she has worked across all aspects of the HR function.

Sharon Deeney Curran

Sharon is a native of Cork, she joined CLS in 2016 as deputy quality manager with specific responsibility for the food microbiology department. Sharon was promoted to Quality Manager in July 2017 carrying the company’s responsibilities and leadership in ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 17025.

Chyrl Coen

Chyrl is a native of Galway and has worked with CLS since 2015, initially working as a Microbiology Reporting Analyst followed by Deputy Quality Manager prior to the role of Quality Manager for CLS MedPharma.