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Global ICT Expert | Nautilus Senior Advisor | Past CIO of Kerry Group | Creating Strategic Alliances | Tech + Innovation Senior Technology Executive with 30+ years of influential and innovative leadership in speciality food technology, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Strategic Change Agent able to drive large-scale, cross-cultural, trans-continental transformations that bring people together, deliver measurable gains, and position companies as innovators and industry leaders. Senior Business Advisor to the global pioneer in data centre technology, Nautilus, which partnered with the US Navy, Applied Materials Inc., and Veolia for the first successful water-borne data centre operation. Former Group CIO and Senior Vice President of Kerry Group, multi-national and leading player in the global food and beverage industry. Committed to mentoring people with great passion and enthusiasm to achieve success.
Having grown up in Glasnevin, Dublin, Professor Conor McCarthy has spent the best part of the last 20 years in the Mid-west region carrying out research into joining dissimilar materials for high-end industrial applications. Now residing in the lakeside town of Ballina, Co Tipperary, Professor McCarthy is the Centre Director for Confirm – Smart manufacturing, a new major national SFI research centre focused on Smart manufacturing technologies.
Having joined the University of Limerick in 2002 coming from Industry Trish Bourke has worked in the Research Finance Department of the University of Limerick for the past 16 years where she provided a range of financial services, support and advice to the Research community within UL and also externally to the funding agencies, HEI’s and Industry partners to the University.
An insightful, strategic and approachable senior manager comfortable in managing large spans of control and multiple projects including product development, manufacturing and the design and re-engineering of processes. An accomplished leader with excellent communication skills capable of breaking down complexity, building productive relationships and creating stakeholder value. A results oriented manager that consistently achieves stretch goals by bringing out the best in people. Operations Director for Multinational Supply Chain and Product Development company based in China for the past 20 months, responsible for the development, manufacturing and shipment of consumer electronics accessories for high end brand products. Held Manufacturing and Engineering management positions in 4 Multi-nationals in Ireland over a period of 25 years Managed start-up and mature businesses. Continuously achieves Process Improvement and Cost Improvement in organisations Developed and implemented Performance Management systems Managed large organisations and large budgets Very experienced in resolving performance issues in operations management, service organizations and people management Qualified with MBA from Dublin City University (DCU) and lectured part time on MBA and Undergraduate degree programs in DCU, specializing in Process Innovation Management and Project Management. Specialties: Management Processes; Product Development; Management Value; Manufacturing Management; Process Management; Project Management; Continuous Improvement Management; Process Innovation; Performance Management; Management Development; Communications; People Management.
Standards help bridge the gap between R&D & Innovation activities and global market impact by building customer trust and confidence in innovative new product-service solutions. Early and active engagement in international standards development helps to de-risk and accelerate your RDI activities and enable faster mass-market adoption of your products-services by customers across competitive international markets. Hence, EU and National policy emphasises the importance of standards as a source of competitive advantage for companies of all types and sizes, across all sectors.
Bachelors Degree in Marketing Management and MSc. in Strategic Management. Experienced inward investment professional; including five years based in New York managing IDA's Content, Consumer and Global Business Services portfolio across nine states. Managed strategic relationships with some of the US' leading Digital, B2C and Professional Services firms. Now leading IDA's Medical Technologies team - working with the world's top Life Sciences companies, and promoting Ireland as the destination for their international manufacturing, innovation and services strategies. Specialties: International location strategies, digital and business transformation, global business services, R&D collaboration and supports, FDI incentives.
Anita Maguire undertook undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Chemistry at UCC (B.Sc. 1985, Ph.D. 1989). Following postdoctoral research first at Namur, Belgium then at the University of Exeter, UK she returned to the Department of Chemistry in UCC in 1991, initially as a College Lecturer, then Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry in 2002, and was appointed in 2004 to the newly-established Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, jointly in the Department of Chemistry and the School of Pharmacy, playing a leading role in development of the School of Pharmacy in recent years. Since her appointment at UCC she has played a strategic role in the development of teaching and learning, including the introduction of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at undergraduate level for the first time. Over the past twenty four years at UCC she has led an active research team focusing on synthetic organic and pharmaceutical chemistry, which interacts extensively with the pharmaceutical sector in Ireland and internationally. She is very committed to postgraduate education, ensuring the research students gain the skills required to underpin their future careers; 40 PhD and 6 MSc students have graduated from her research team since 1997, most of whom have developed careers within the pharmaceutical industry both in Ireland and internationally. In addition over 37 Postdoctoral Researchers have worked within the team, many of whom have progressed to careers in industry.
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