Judging Panel
CHAIRPERSON
Professor Frances Ruane
Chair of the National Competitiveness Council and Former director of ESRI
Ian Hyland
Owner
Business & Finance Media Group
Seamus Hand
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
Non-Executive Director and Founder
CPL
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
Executive Director, Global Business Development
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
Julie Sinnamon
Non-Executive Director and Ex-CEO
Enterprise Ireland
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, Enterprise Ireland
Chairman, ESB
Ian Talbot
CEO
Chambers Ireland
Gary McGann
Chair of Public / Private Boards
Professor Federica Pazzaglia
Director, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
