Leadership

NDRC LaunchPad alumnus and Irish start-up Pharmapod was announced today as the European winner of The Global Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards, an international business plan competition that identifies, supports and encourages projects by women entrepreneurs. Last June Pharmapod and its founder Leonora O’Brien was selected as one of the 18 Cartier finalists from over 1,200 applicants worldwide. This week she was invited to France for the final round of competition, which included submitting a detailed business plan and presenting her project in front of the jury. One winner was chosen from each of six regions worldwide with Pharmapod selected as the ‘Laureate for Europe’. The company will now receive a…

Trust in government in Ireland has fallen by 11 points over the last 12 months according to the 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer, which also reveals that trust levels in NGOs, business and media is down over the last yar. The Trust Index, the average trust across the four institutions of business, government, NGOs and media, showed a seven point drop for Ireland to 39 points. This places Ireland as the third least trusting country of 27 surveyed. Government is the least trusted of the four institutions with only 21pc of people saying that they trust government to do what is right. This is the lowest level of trust recorded for…

Kieran Doohan has been appointed chief financial officer at the The Doyle Collection. Doohan joins the company from Ballymore Group, where he was group financial controller and head of finance (Ireland). Previously, he held the position of financial controller (international division) at Mercury Engineering, between 2003 and 2007. He began his career in KPMG in 1996 and held a number of management positions in the firm’s Dublin and Sydney offices between 1996 and 2002. A fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, he holds a bachelor of commerce (BComm) and master’s of accounting (MAcc) from UCD, and a graduate diploma in the management and application of IT in accounting from DCU. Grainne…

Greencore CEO Patrick Coveney has been appointed to the board of Glanbia as a non-executive director. Coveney, who’s 43, has been chief executive of convenience food group Greencore – which has revenues of £1.2bn and employing over 12,000 people in the UK, Ireland, and the US, since 2007. Before that, he was Greencore’s chief financial officer. He was previously a global partner of McKinsey and Co, focused on consumer and food industries. Coveney is a former Rhodes scholar and holds a DPhil and MPhil from Oxford University. “I am very pleased that Patrick has agreed to join the Glanbia board. I believe he is well equipped to support the group’s…

Three University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out companies are among only 18 companies from across Ireland to have been shortlisted for the 2014 Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards. The three companies are APC Ltd, Equilume Ltd and Oxymem Ltd. Now in its fifth year, the awards showcase excellence in innovation across a range of groundbreaking products and services from all sectors and company sizes across the island, North and South. In recent years the overall winners have created innovations as diverse as drug delivery systems and state-of-the art network switching, to anti-allergy pillows and new technologies for cleaning and disinfection. “I am delighted that three UCD spin-out companies, commercialising UCD research outputs,…

Irish businesses are confident about their own future prospects, but perceptions about the economy as a whole are not as strong, according to the latest Dublin Chamber quarterly study. The survey found that 42pc of companies expect their levels of business to remain stable, while 46pc expect them to increase over the next three months. “Half of businesses are expecting their level of activity to grow next quarter,” said Patrick Coveney , Dublin Chamber president and Greencore CEO. “Yet their confidence dissipates when it comes to the economy more broadly – with less than one in five of businesses more confident about the economy today than they were three months ago. We…

As part of our ongoing interview series, we were honored to speak with Dr. Sam Muslin of Face Lift Dentistry in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Muslin is a Doctor of Dental Surgery, was honored to receive the “Master of the Academy of General Dentistry” award, was featured on The Doctors, and developed Face Lift Dentistry®, VENLAY® Restoration and JawTrac® bite correction. But he’s not just a leader in advancing new procedures; to grow his practice Dr. Muslin also had to cultivate his business management skills and shares key lessons with us today. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? In what ways does that relate to what…

Walter Vera, Vice President of Metals.com Business and Leadership had the opportunity to interview Walter Vera, VP of Metals.com (currently in receivership due to a lawsuit brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and 30 States against Defendants TMTE, Inc., also known as Metals.com, Chase Metals, Inc., Chase Metals, LLC, Barrick Capital, Inc., Lucas Thomas Erb, also known as Lucas Asher, also known as Luke Asher, and Simon Batashvili, and Relief Defendant Tower Equity LLC in Case No. 3:20-CV-2910-L. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? In what ways does that relate to what you do now? Growing up I knew I wanted to…

Kyle is the CEO of Complete SEO, a full-service digital marketing refinery and SEO agency with offices in Denver, CO and Austin, TX. Additionally, he’s also the co-founder of ClinicVitamins.com, a national, online vitamin dispensary dealing exclusively in professional-grade health supplements. A writer by interest and academic training, Kyle has been published on hundreds of industry-leading small business, marketing, and search engine optimization blogs. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? In what ways does that relate to what you do now? Something related to animals or agriculture. My grandparents used to raise cattle on a 1,200 acre ranch, sustainably harvest the timer, and…