Ones to Watch
Adrian Skehill: Calom Technologies
Adrian Skehill is the CEO of Calom Technologies, a software development company based in the National College of Ireland Business Incubation Centre in Dublin's IFSC.
Barry McCleary: Megazyme
Professor Barry McCleary is CEO and owner of Megazyme International Ireland Ltd and adjunct professor with the University of Sydney. He is also president elect of the American Association of Cereal Chemists.
Brendan Madden: GroupNos Technologies
Brendan Madden is CEO of GroupNos Technologies. Founded in 2008 by his brother Enda, currently chief technology officer, GroupNos Technologies is headquartered in the IT Sligo Innovation Centre and employs five people. The firm also has offices in Dublin and San Francisco and is opening a European sales and marketing base in the Netherlands in early 2010.
Brendan O'Regan: Zenith Technologies
Founder and CEO of Zenith Technologies, Brendan O'Regan established the company in 1998 and now employs over 300 people around the world in the company's headquarters in Cork as well as offices in Dublin, the UK, India, Singapore and the US. With an annual turnover of €30 million, the company is on course to grow the workforce to at least 500 people by 2010.
Brendan O'Sullivan: ThirdForce
Brendan O'Sullivan is the chief executive of ThirdForce, an e-learning company formed in Ireland in 2003 which now has operations in the USA and UK with customers in 20 countries on four continents.
Brian Montague: Investor
Brian Montague left his role as CEO of corporate law firm A&L Goodbody in May 2009 to pursue what he regards as
Colm Lyon: Realex Payments
Internet entrepreneur Colm Lyon founded Realex Payments a decade ago and has since seen it grow to a business responsible for handling online transactions worth €6.5 billion annually.
Danny Moore: NYSE Technologies
Danny Moore is co-chief executive officer of NYSE Technologies In this position, he is responsible for increasing NYSE Euronext's global customer base with best-of-breed commercial technology solutions, including all European operations of NYSE Technologies as well as global responsibility for enterprise software.
David Patterson: Sophia Search
Dr David Patterson is CEO and co-founder of Sophia Search Ltd. Prior to founding Sophia Search, he was a senior lecturer and the director of an artificial intelligence research and development laboratory at the University of Ulster for seven years.
Edward Hanna & Tommy Maguire: Core
Tommy Maguire, commercial director, and Edward Hanna, technical director, co-founded Core in 1994. The privately owned software-development company is based in Belfast and is a leading expert in identity-management solutions for high-security facilities.
Eric Mosley: Globoforce
As co-founder and CEO of Globoforce, Eric Mosley has been directing the path of Globoforce as the innovator in the strategic employee recognition industry since the company's beginning.
Fiona Scott: Boys and Girls
In August 2009, Fiona Scott left McConnells Advertising and, together with five other senior advertising executives, founded Boys and Girls, an advertising agency promising a
Garry Lyons: Orbiscom
Garry Lyons has worked for Orbiscom since it was founded in 1999. Over the past decade, he has watched the company flourish, even through its first few difficult years. Under his leadership, it not only became profitable but became one of the leaders in its field.
Gerard Hartnett: CoClarity
Gerard Hartnett founded CoClarity Ltd in 2008 after identifying a gap in the market whilst attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference. He spent eight years at Intel where he lead global multi-disciplinary teams that delivered three successful processors. He worked for Tellabs, Digital and Motorola, before joining Basis Communications which was acquired by Intel in 2000.
Gerry Lacey: SureWash
Gerry Lacey is a founder and chief executive of SureWash Ltd, a Wicklow-based company providing hand-hygiene training and audit services to hospitals with the objective of reducing hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA.
Howard Beggs: Helix Health
Howard Beggs is chief executive of Helix Health, Ireland's leading provider of technology to the primary healthcare sector and one of Ireland's largest indigenous software companies.
Hugh O'Donnell: Kentz
Dr Hugh O'Donnell is chief executive of the global engineering specialist solutions provider Kentz. In the year ending December 2008, Kentz generated revenues of $643.4 million and profit before tax of $40.7m. Its current backlog is over $1.5 billion.
Ian Rice & Ronan Skehill: Cauwill Technologies
Cauwill Technologies was founded by two University of Limerick PhD graduates, Ian Rice and Ronan Skehill. While at university earning their PhDs in telecommunications and software, they were also responsible for lecturing, supervising students and delivering world-class research at a national and international level. Together, over a 10-year period, they helped build the university's wireless access research centre into an internationally recognised centre.
Joan O'Shaughnessy: Aramark
Joan O'Shaughnessy is CEO of Aramark Ireland, which provides award-winning food services and facilities management to the healthcare, education, business/industry and Government sectors throughout the island of Ireland.
John O'Dea: Crospon
With 18 years' experience in the medical device industry, John O'Dea has overseen the launch of eight electronic medical device products in the past 15 years. He co-founded Caradyne, an Irish respiratory medical device company in 1998, which was selling products in 30 countries prior to its acquisition by Respironics Inc in 2004. Before co-founding Crospon, O'Dea served as general manager of Respironics Ireland.
John O'Shea: Zamano
An electronics engineer by trade, John O'Shea has spent nearly 15 years developing his expertise in the technology industry. Before joining Zamano, he worked with Siemens in Munich as a software development engineer on the first generation of digital telephone exchanges. He also worked with Rhode and Schwarz as a sales engineer, based in Germany, selling into the USA.
John Power: Aerogen
In 1997, John Power founded and was MD of his first medical device company, Cerus Medical, which developed innovative drug delivery technology.
Liam Queally: Irish Dog Foods
Liam Queally is the managing director of Irish Dog Foods Ltd, which is one of the largest pet-food companies in the State. The company operates from two state-of-the-art petfood manufacturing facilities in Naas and Kilkenny.
Mark Heffernan: Opsona Therapeutics
Dr Mark Heffernan is CEO of Opsona Therapeutics, a successful Irish biotechnology start-up focused on the development of novel therapeutics to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, diabetes and transplantation.
Michael Brady: Cocoon
Michael Brady began his career in various architectural practices where upon becoming an associate within a large Lisburn-based practice, he decided to set up MBArchitecture (Ireland) Limited in 2006.
Michael Cullen: Beacon Medical Group
Michael Cullen is chief executive and co-founder of the Beacon Medical Group (BMG) which was founded in 2002 with cardi-thoracic surgeon Mark Redmond and developer Paddy Shovlin. BMG built and owns the Beacon Medical Campus in Sandyford which includes Beacon Hospital, Beacon Renal, Beacon Consultants Clinic and Concourse, Beacon Dermatology and the planned women's, children's and maternity Hospital.
Michael Earls: EasyFix Manufacture
Coming from an agricultural background in Killimordaly, Athenry, Co Galway where his father is a full-time farmer and his brothers have an engineering business, concentrating mainly on the construction of farm buildings, Michael Earls is founder and managing director of EasyFix Manufacture.
Sean Keenan: Multis Group
Sean Keenan is the CEO and a founder of Multis Group Ltd, a Galway-based company with a global reach and a unique operation and business model.
Terry Clune: Taxback Group
Terry Clune is the founder, owner and CEO/managing director of the Taxback Group and its subsidiary and affiliated companies including taxback.com. Clune was named Entrepreneur of the Year in Ireland at the 2009 Ernst & Young Awards. Taxback.com - the group's original founding business - was shortlisted for the Deloitte Best Managed Company Awards 2009.
Tom Brennan & Patsy Carney: EirGen Pharma
EirGen Pharma founders Tom Brennan and Patsy Carney established the specialist pharmaceuticals company in 2005. It is one of the first pharmaceutical companies in Europe to have obtained regulatory approval to safely develop and manufacture multiple anti-cancer products in their purpose-built facility in Waterford.
Tony Convery: CDE
Tony Convery is founder and chairman of CDE. A chartered mechanical engineer, he formed CDE Ireland Limited with his wife in 1992, having previously worked throughout Europe and America in the design and development of equipment for the sand and aggregates industry.
