Leadership
Patrick Coveney Joins Glanbia’s Board of Directors
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…
Read MoreThree UCD spin-out companies shortlisted for awards
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,…
Read MoreBusinesses more confident about their own prospects than economy’s – Dublin Chamber
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…
Read MoreWho is Tom Dyson?
Tom Dyson is the editor of Postcards from the Fringe and Tom’s Portfolio. He’s a former London banker and cash supervisor. In 2018, Tom sold his furniture, handed back the keys to his Florida apartment, and set off on a two-year trip around the world. His Postcards from the Fringe e-letter is a chronicle of life on the roadway with his ex-wife, three kids, and luggage. He’s popular for his contrarian ideas, among them, purchasing bitcoin when it was costing simply $6 in 2011. This was right before it climbed 302,000% as well as his “all in” bet on gold in 2002, right before it ended up being that year’s…
Read MoreDr. Sam Muslin: Balancing Functionality and Aesthetics with Business Growth
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…
Read MoreWalter Vera on Cultivating a Corporate Growth Mindset
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…
Read MoreKyle Sanders – CEO of Complete SEO
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…
Read MoreMatt Wingerd on The Most Crucial Leadership Quality You Need to Cultivate Now
His career spans blue chip institutions like BlueCross BlueShield and Peoplesoft (now Oracle), but in 2000, Matt Wingerd set out on a new path of his own. Taking the lessons he learned in big business and applying them to his independent venture, Marketing Affiliates LLC, has been a 18 year (so far) labor of love, not without its own lessons. Matt shares some of the insights from his expansive career with us today, including the most important leadership quality you need to cultivate for business success. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? In what ways does that relate to what you do now?…
Read MoreDeviate Labs: An Innovative Growth Hacking Marketing Agency
Raymond Fong and Chad Riddersen – Co-Founders of Deviate Labs The Growth Hacking Agency Led By a Rocket Scientist and an Investment Banker Deviate Labs, an innovative growth hacking marketing agency , was founded by Raymond Fong and Chad Riddersen. We, at Business and Leadership, are intrigued by how unique individuals with extremely different backgrounds can work together to create an environment and company that thrives. Deviate Labs provides growth marketing services in a variety of verticals. Their work with Dollar Shave Club and their clients on Shark Tank caught our attention. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Fong and Riddersen for an interview: What are your educational backgrounds and how do they benefit Deviate Labs today? Raymond: I…
Read MoreMike Mayock First NFL Draft as Raiders GM
When it comes to leadership, that is exactly what has lacked in the Raider organization for what seems like decades. Long in the backs of our memories, through the cobwebs, are images of the one dominant franchise. Not just in the NFL, but of all professional sports. Yes, there was a time when the Raiders were pro sports winningest team. How fortunes can change with poor leadership. Enter an old face in Jon Gruden and a new one in Mike Mayock. The tenure of former GM Reggie McKenzie was mixed. While he targeted stars through the draft of Khalil Mack, Derek Carr, Amari Cooper and Gabe Jackson, he also had…
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