Judging Panel
CHAIRPERSON
Julie Sinnamon
Non-Executive Director and Ex-CEO
Enterprise Ireland
Ian Hyland
Owner
Business & Finance Media Group
Ryan McCarthy
Managing Partner
KPMG
Professor Gerardine Doyle
Director
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Paul Connolly
Founder & Chairman, Connolly Capital Ltd.
Chairman, Business & Finance Media Group
Breege O’Donoghue
Ambassador
Primark
Mary Finan
Former Managing Director
Wilson Hartnell Public Relations
Maura Quinn
Non-Executive Director and Ex CEO
Institute of Directors
Danny McCoy
CEO
IBEC
Denis O’Brien
Chairman
Digicel Group
Anne Heraty
Chair
Ibec
Mary Harney
Independent Company Director
and Former Tánaiste
Brid Horan
Independent Chair & Director
Chancellor, Dublin City University
Emer Gilvarry
Non-Executive Director
Kerry Group, Greencoat Renewables plc & Pershing BNY Mellon
Kevin Sherry
Interim CEO
Enterprise Ireland
Sean O’Driscoll
Chairman of the ESRI
Chairman of University College Cork Governing Authority
Caitriona Fottrell
President & CEO
The Ireland Funds
Louise Phelan
Non-Executive Director
Ryan Air & Kingspan
Rory Guinan
Managing Director
Endeavor Ireland
Kieran McLoughlin
Managing Partner
VentureWave Capital Limited
Faye Walsh Drouillard
Founder & General Partner
WakeUp Capital
John Walsh
Journalist & Editor
London Times
Terence O’Rourke
Chairman, RTE
Chairman, ESB
Ian Talbot
CEO
Chambers Ireland
Gary McGann
Chair of Public / Private Boards
Professor Federica Pazzaglia
Director, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
