Technology
Aidan Heavey: Tullow Oil
Aidan Heavey founded Tullow Oil in 1985, starting the company in Ireland and beginning its first gas production and sales in Senegal two years later. Now based in London, Dublin and Cape Town, Tullow is one of the largest independent exploration and production companies in Europe and employs over 700 people worldwide. The company has a balanced portfolio of over 90 licences in four core areas spread across 22 countries in Europe, Africa, South Asia and South America. It is quoted on the London and Irish stock exchanges.
Alan O'Hara: Nokia
As general manager of Nokia Ireland, Alan O'Hara is charged with steering the mobile phone company into a new era. O'Hara joined Nokia as business controller in 2001 and quickly climbed the corporate ladder to head its Irish operations.
Andrew Parish: Wavebob
Andrew Parish, currently CEO of Wavebob Ltd, is at the forefront of Ireland's bid to be one of the global renewable energy suppliers of the 21st century. Quoted as saying that,
Brendan Gilmore: OpenHydro
Brendan Gilmore is a co-founder and executive chairman of OpenHydro, an Irish tidal renewable energy technology company. Established in late 2004, Brendan has developed a hugely strong international and Irish executive team, mostly engineers, with whom he has raised over €50 million in private equity, built a research facility in the European Marine Energy Centre in the Orkneys in Scotland and established a technical centre and assembly plant in Greenore, Co Louth.
Brian Motherway: SEI
Dr Brian Motherway is head of strategy and innovation at Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI), the national authority for sustainable energy policy and programmes. He is responsible for SEI's work on policy, analysis and on enterprise development.
Cameron O'Reilly: Landis+Gyr
Cameron O'Reilly is CEO of Landis+Gyr, the global leader in energy management for more than a century. Landis+Gyr's current capabilities were built through a series of 14 acquisitions and investments over the past five years and today has revenues of $1.3 billion, with more than 5,000 employees and operations in over 30 countries.
Cathal Magee: eircom
As managing director of eircom Retail, Cathal Magee is in charge of eircom's €1.3 billion portfolio of retail businesses that serve the consumer, business, corporate and government markets with voice, broadband, data network, hosting and ICT solutions. eircom's portfolio includes eircom-owned subsidiaries Phonewatch, Lan Communications, eircom.net - the internet service provider of 700,000 customers - 11811 directories business, and eircom business systems.
Charles Butterworth: Vodafone
In April 2007 Charles Butterworth was appointed CEO of Vodafone Ireland and took up the position the following July.
Chris Clark: BT
Chris Clark is CEO of BT, one of the leading providers of networked IT services to business and public sector organisations in Ireland. The company employs more than 3,000 people across the island and reported revenues of £800.8 million for the year ending March 31st, 2009. In the past 12 months the company has secured a number of landmark contracts with customers including 02, 3 Mobile, Vodafone and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.
Colm Long: Facebook
Colm Long is director of online operations at Facebook in Ireland, a position he has held since 2009. In his role as director of operations he leads the company's European operations from its new Dublin hub.
Danuta Gray: O2
Danuta Gray is chief executive of Telefónica O2 Ireland, a position she has held since 2001.
Eddie O'Connor: Mainstream Renewable Power
Dr Eddie O'Connor, of new company Mainstream Renewable Power, founded and headed Airtricity Holdings Ltd until he sold the company in early 2008 to Scottish and Southern Energy plc for an equity value of €1.1 billion. O'Connor had built Airtricity into one of the world's leading renewable energy companies with wind farms in Ireland, the UK and the US.
Jason Bak: Finavera Renewables
Jason Bak is the CEO and founder of Finavera Renewables Inc, a private Irish company dedicated to the development of renewable energy resources and technologies. The objective of the firm is to become a major renewable and green energy producer by developing and operating its assets in the wind and wave energy sectors.
Jim Barry: NTR
Jim Barry has been chief executive of NTR plc since July 2000. He has led the transformation of the company from its origins as an Irish toll road developer, through its period as a broad based Irish utility, into a leading international developer in renewable energy and sustainable waste management.
Jim O'Hara: Intel Ireland
Jim O'Hara is the general manager of Intel Ireland and is a vice-president of the technology manufacturing group, Intel Corporation. He took over as head of Intel's Irish operations in 2002. O'Hara is responsible for Intel's manufacturing operations in Ireland and for the site's strategic direction, management, leadership and development, as well as government and community relations.
John Herlihy: Google
John Herlihy holds one of the most senior positions in Ireland's technology industry. As vice-president of Google‘s global ad operations, Herlihy drives Google's online advertising operations and support globally by providing small business solutions to advertisers. Based in Dublin, with teams across the globe, Herlihy joined Google in 2005 and built its online sales and operations channels in new and existing markets across EMEA.
John Mullins: Bord Gáis
A native of Cork, John Mullins (41) was appointed CEO of Bord Gáis in October 2007. Bord Gáis is a leading energy supplier of gas and electricity to almost 900,000 industrial, commercial and residential customers on the island of Ireland.
Kevin O'Leary: Qumas
Kevin O'Leary is the chief executive officer of Qumas, one of Ireland's leading software companies, providing regulatory compliance solutions to global life sciences organisations.
Leslie Buckley: Saongroup.com
Leslie Buckley is one of Ireland's leading business people with a hugely successful track record as an entrepreneur and business consultant. He holds significant board positions in both the public and private sectors. Currently chairman and co-owner (with Denis O'Brien) of Saongroup.com, Buckley heads up one of the fastest growing online companies in the world.
Lochlann Quinn: ESB
On January 22nd, 2008, Lochlann Quinn commenced his five-year tenure as chairman of the Electricity Supply Board Group (ESB).
Mark Ryan: Accenture
Mark Ryan was appointed managing director of Accenture in Ireland in 2005, replacing Leo Blennerhassett who, at the time, had taken on a global relationship role for a new key Accenture client.
Martin Murphy: HP
Martin Murphy is managing director for Hewlett Packard (HP) in Ireland and is responsible for driving HP's business growth in the Irish market. In recent years, HP Ireland has achieved record growth and is now the largest IT and services provider in the country.
Maurice Healy: Calyx
Maurice Healy is founder and executive chairman of information and communications technology firm Calyx. He is also the majority shareholder.
Michael Daly: IBM
Michael Daly, IBM's country general manager, formerly director of IBM Global Services, began his career with IBM in 1985, having completed his studies at Trinity College Dublin and having worked for a time in financial services.
Michael Kelly: Fineos Corporation
Michael Kelly is founder and CEO of Fineos Corporation, a privately funded Dublin-based global provider of enterprise software solutions for the financial services industry. Launched just 14 years ago, Fineos is one of Ireland's greatest software success stories and after years of building the company to its current strong position, in 2007, Kelly finally managed to buy out the firm's institutional investors, ABN AMRO and AIB, which had invested €10 million in 2002. Since 2002, Fineos has posted profits enabling the company to fund the share buyback from the company's reserves.
Michael Maloney: Payzone
In April 2008, the board of Payzone - formerly Alphyra - announced the appointment of Michael Maloney to the position of chief executive officer and director of the company with immediate effect.
Padraig McManus: ESB
Padraig McManus took up the position of chief executive of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) in July 2002 and, in 2009, the company's board approved a three-year extension of his contract. The three-year extension applies from July 2009 and was approved by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan.
Pat Frain: NovaUCD
Dr Pat Frain is director of NovaUCD, Ireland's premier innovation and technology transfer centre at University College Dublin. He was responsible for the planning and development of NovaUCD, which was established in 2003 with the support of a unique public private partnership involving the university, Enterprise Ireland and six private sector organisations (AIB, Arthur Cox, Deloitte, Ericsson, Goodbody Corporate Finance and Xilinx). Over €11 million was invested in the construction of NovaUCD, including €7.5m from the private sector partners. A further €10m has been generated in grants and earnings from licensing fees and the sale of UCD technologies.
Paul Donovan: eircom
Paul Donovan was appointed as the new eircom Group CEO in July 2009. Since taking up the position there have been some noticeable changes within the organisation. The most significant of these is the announcement in January this year that the final step in the sale of the Australian-based eircom Holdings Ltd (ERC's) has been concluded with Singapore Technologies Telemedia's (ST Telemedia), acquiring a controlling interest in the company.
Paul Kerley: Norkom Technologies
Paul Kerley is a founding member and CEO of Norkom Technologies, which specialises in financial crime and compliance software. The company, which celebrated its 10th birthday in 2008, certainly had a rocky start, but Norkom is now a leading player in the financial crime and compliance market, counting seven of the world's top 10 banks as its clients. Its software suite is deployed in more than 100 countries across four continents and monitors millions of transactions a day for global financial services clients.
Paul Rellis: Microsoft Ireland
Paul Rellis is managing director of Microsoft Ireland and a passionate believer in the need for innovation as the key element for helping Ireland maintain and develop its economic position on the global stage.
Robert Finnegan: 3
Robert Finnegan is chief executive of 3 Mobile, Ireland's fastest growing mobile network. Since he joined the company in December 2005, he has successfully positioned it as a strong force in the Irish mobile market.
Tony O'Reilly: Providence Resources
Tony O'Reilly is the CEO of Providence Resources plc. O'Reilly was appointed as chief of the Dublin- and AIM-listed oil and gas company in September 2005, having served as a founding director since its incorporation in 1997.
