Media, Marketing and PR
Alan Cox: Core Media
Alan Cox is chief executive of Core Media Group, Ireland's largest media buying group.
Anne Marie Curran: Drury
Anne Marie Curran is a director of public relations consultancy Drury. Founded in 1989, Drury is now one of Ireland's leading consultancies with over 21 years advising many of Ireland's companies. The firm is a full service agency with specialist teams working in the areas of corporate communications, public affairs and consumer communications. Clients include CRH plc, Hewlett Packard, Vodafone, Paddy Power plc, C&C Group plc, Greencore Group plc, McDonalds, and Sustainable Energy Ireland.
Annette Burns: Business & Finance
From Co Down, Annette Burns has 20 years' experience managing teams and businesses in the media sector in London and Dublin, and is currently interim managing director of Business & Finance Media Group - a role she combines with a number of non-media projects and business interests.
Anthony Dinan: Thomas Crosbie Holdings
Anthony Dinan is group managing director of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd (TCH). Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited comprises 17 newspapers: the Irish Examiner, Evening Echo, Waterford News and Star, Western People, Sligo Weekender, The Kingdom, Newry Democrat (incorporating the Down Democrat), The Nationalist, Kildare Nationalist, Laois Nationalist, The Sunday Business Post, Roscommon Herald, Enniscorthy Echo, New Ross Echo, Gorey Echo, Wexford Echo and The Irish Post.
Barry O'Callaghan: EMPG
Barry O'Callaghan, the chief executive of Education Media and Publishing Group (EMPG), insists he will pay back every cent he borrowed - in particular the millions of euros from Anglo Irish Bank - to secure his equity stake in the educational publishing firm.
Charley Stoney: Field Management Ireland
Charley Stoney, managing director of Field Management Ireland (FMI), was the winner of the Professional Business Woman of the Year title at the Image Businesswomen of the Year Awards, held in November 2009.
Conor Dempsey: Slattery Communications
Conor Dempsey is the director of public relations consultancy Slattery Communications. He heads the consultancy's corporate division, which advises clients such as Allianz, Bank of America, Castlethorn Construction, the IRFU, Microsoft and Repak.
David Harvey: City Channel
David Harvey is the founder and chief executive of City Channel, the company that provides local television services - originally in Dublin and Galway. In September 2008, the channel secured a new licence by the Broadcast Commission of Ireland to launch a service in the south of the country. City Channel now also broadcasts to Cork and Limerick cities and counties as well as parts of Kerry, Waterford, Clare and south Tipperary.
David McRedmond: TV3
Born in Dublin, David McRedmond spent much of his early career in the UK and the US and was involved in retailing businesses. He was, for a time, the operations director of Waterstone's, managing director of WH Smith Travel Retail, which is now the most consistently strong part of WH Smith, and in the US he was CEO of WH Smith Inc.
Denis O'Brien: Digicel
Denis O'Brien is one of Ireland's most immenant international entrepreneurs. Digicel has operations in 32 counties in the Caribbean, Central America, and the Pacific Islands, with a combined 10.3 million subscribers. Digicel employs 4,500 staff and continues to explore new global market opportunities.
Fintan Drury: Platinum One
Fintan Drury is the chairman of Platinum One, Ireland's leading sports management company,which represents more than 40 professional athletes in football and rugby in Britain and Ireland. More recently the company has been involved in the management of pre-season tours for some of the world's biggest clubs including Sevilla FC in 1997 and FC Barcelona in 2007 and 2008.
Gavin O'Reilly: Independent News and Media
When media mogul Sir Anthony O'Reilly announced in 2009 that he was stepping down as chief executive of Independent News & Media (INM), it marked the end of an era and the end of an outstanding career in the media, which saw him build an impressive empire over the course of the 36 years he was with INM.
Gervaise Slowey: Ogilvy & Mather
Gervaise Slowey is the managing director of Ogilvy & Mather (O&M), and a member of the board of the Ogilvy Ireland Group.
Ian Young: Irish International
Ian Young is managing director of Irish International (II), a role that he has occupied since 1994. He is also chief executive of BBDO Ireland, the holding company that owns Irish International and Drury.
Jarlath Jennings: MII
Jarlath Jennings is the national chairman of the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MII)?and the non-executive director of the McConnells Group, having stepped down as managing director in 2008 during a merger between McConnells Group and The AFA Group. Together, they created Ireland's largest communications group, with around 125 staff and an annual turnover of €89 million. McConnells won a bronze award at the IMC European Awards 2008 for the launch of its campaign for MINI Clubman in the Integrated Communication category.
JP Donnelly: Ogilvy Group Ireland
JP Donnelly is group chief executive of Ogilvy Group in Ireland, and is well known as one of the country's top brand and communications specialists. During his career, he has lead and contributed to the launch of many of Ireland's leading brands.
Laurie Mannix: MKC Communications
Laurie Mannix took the helm as managing director of MKC Communications in 2009. The award winning company provides public relations and public affairs support to leading multinational and Irish corporates, professional bodies and public sector clients. Blue chip clients include Google, Abbott, KBC Bank, Campbell Bewley Group, the American Chamber of Commerce, Lakeland Dairies, EirGrid, the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland, e-net and Energia, among others. The company has won multiple awards from the Public Relations Consultants Association for the quality of its work.
Louise Delahunty: Delahunty Event Management
Louise Delahunty owns and runs Delahunty Event Management. Established in 2004, Delahunty Event Management has gained a reputation of being one of Ireland's leading event management and hospitality company, servicing the corporate sector both nationally and internationally.
Lucy Gaffney: Communicorp
Lucy Gaffney is chairperson of Communicorp Group Limited, an expanding communications group with media interests in Ireland, Europe and the Middle East, including national radio stations Newstalk 106-108 and Today FM, along with Dublin stations 98FM and Spin 103.8.
Maeve Donovan: The Irish Times
Maeve Donovan is managing director of The Irish Times Ltd, a position she has held since 2002. She joined The Irish Times in 1977 and worked her way up through sales, marketing, distribution and general management. With more than 30 years experience working in media and advertising, Donovan moved steadily up through the commercial activities of the business, becoming head of advertising in 1989, sales and marketing manager in 1994 and commercial director in 1999. She joined The Irish Times board in 1997.
Michael Killeen: Dialogue
A graduate of the Marketing Institute of Ireland and Marquette University, Michael Killeen is the founder of Advertising Agency, Dialogue Marketing. He gained his marketing experience in America, working with GE medical, Miller brewing and Harley Davidson, before returning home in 1991.
Niall FitzGerald: Thomson Reuters
Niall FitzGerald, recipient of the Business & Finance Outstanding Achievement in Business Award in 2008, is the deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters, the world's largest international multimedia news agency. The company is best known for its extensive financial sector coverage, and currently generates around $13.4 billion in revenue.
Niall O'Dowd: Irish America Magazine
Niall O'Dowd is the founder of Irish America Magazine and the Irish Voice newspaper, the two largest and most prominent Irish-American publications in the US. He is chief executive of Irishcentral.com, a new website targeting the Irish Diaspora around the world, which launched on St Patrick's Day, 2009.
Orlaith Blaney: McCann Erickson
McCann Erickson was founded in Dublin in 1991 with a single client, and has since grown to become one of Ireland's leading communications companies. Now with a team of 50 people and an annual billing of approximately €45 million, McCann Erickson Worldwide has offices in over 130 countries and over 80 years of multinational experience. The global parent company is in turn 100% owned by Interpublic Group (IPG), the marketing supercompany comprised of hundreds of communication agencies around the world, with a combined turnover of over €5.2 billion.
Padraig McKeon: Drury
Padraig McKeon is managing director at PR firm Drury, which he joined in 1992. A native of Sligo, he had previously been with Murray Consultants, which he joined on graduating from the communications programme at Dublin City University.
Rachel Dalton: Rachel Dalton Communications
Rachel Dalton's career began while working in public relations in London. She worked for 16 years with a number of major consultancies, such as Burson Marsteller and Attenborough Associates, and held a board director role at one of the UK's top 10 PR agency, Charles Barker BSMG, which is now part of Weber Shandwick Group.
Rhona Blake: Fleishman-Hillard
Rhona Blake is a founder director of Fleishman-Hillard, one of Ireland’s largest communications consultancies. The company employs 30 leading public relations, public affairs and communications specialists, and will celebrate 20 years in business in 2010. Blake was appointed managing director of the company in July 2005.
Sean McCrave: IAPI
Sean McCrave is CEO of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI)?and brings a wealth of experience to the trade association and professional institute for Irish advertising agencies.
Sir Anthony O'Reilly: Formerly INM
Tony O'Reilly is a Dublin-born entrepreneur, widely recognised as one of the world's premier business leaders. He is best known as CEO of the Dublin-based Independent News & Media Group plc (INM), a position he stepped down from in 2009, aged 73.
Willie O'Reilly: Today FM
Willie O'Reilly is the chief executive of Today FM and chairman of the Independent Broadcasters in Ireland (IBI), which represents the interest of the Irish commercial radio industry.
