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