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Our Consultant Team
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Peter Finnegan, an Irish national, is a communications expert and is Managing Director of Communiqué International, Dublin. He designs and directs a wide range of communications, training and consulting projects for the public and private sectors. He works in Ireland, Europe, the Western Balkans and Africa. He has over 20 years experience in conducting business communications skills training workshops and seminars during which time he has developed and perfected a highly effective, practical style of knowledge transfer. Peter holds a Masters Degree in Executive Leadership from the University of Ulster & Boston College. |
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David O’Donovan, an Irish national, specialises in assisting developing countries to design national strategies and institutional structures to build competitiveness through innovation, more foreign direct investment and the development of local indigenous industry. David is a practitioner in these areas having worked for over 30 years with IDA-Ireland, the Irish Government’s highly successful investment promotion agency. For the past 8 years he has worked extensively in FDI consultancy and training in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa. David holds a Masters Degree in Strategic Management from Trinity College, Dublin and a Bachelors Degree in Business Studies from University College Dublin. |
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Eamonn Sheehy,is an Irish National with extensive experience of economic and industrial development.
He has spent 35 years as a senior manager in IDA Ireland developing new strategies, implementing new industrial development policies, attracting foreign investment, creating linkages between foreign and indigenous companies, implementing aftercare programs and building industry clusters.
He has supported many national and regional Investment Promotion Agencies (IPA) with new strategies and capacity building training and provides on-going mentoring and support.
He holds a Business Degree from University College Dublin and Diplomas in Strategy, Management, Finance, Marketing and Change Management. |
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Eugene Reilly, an Irish national, specialises in assisting agencies in developing countries to design and implement enterprise policies and strategies to enhance competitiveness, attract more foreign direct investment and facilitate the development and restructuring of local indigenous industry. Eugene is a practitioner in these areas having worked for 25 years with IDA, Irelands premier FDI promotion agency, Forfás, Irelands National Policy Advisory Board for Enterprise and Science and Foir Teoranta, the state SME reconstruction agency. Eugene also worked as a Finance Manager in a number of multinational companies in Ireland and Africa. For the past 8 years he has worked extensively in enterprise strategy consultancy and training in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Caribbean and Africa. Eugene is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Studies. |
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Patricio Galeb, a Chilean national, is an agribusiness expert with over 35 years of professional practical experience of implementing the successful Chilean model of the development and export of a wide variety of Chilean agribusiness products, with particular expertise in fruits, vegetables and wine. This experience includes 20 years at Fundacion Chile, a technology transfer centre, devoted to the development and implementation of innovation programmes generating new business. While in that capacity, he played the lead role in the creation of 12 new companies, the majority of whom are important players in Chile’s agribusiness export industry. He has accumulated extensive international experience in Innovation, Business Development, Training, Management, Marketing and Sales. Patricio holds a Degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Chile and completed the Management Development Program at Harvard University. |
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Dr. Heikki Kotilainen, a Finnish national, holds a doctorate in Technology (Mech. Eng.) from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland). For over 18 years he worked as Deputy Director General in Tekes, the Technology and Innovation Agency of Finland. He is a member of many domestic and international (EU, Nordic) technology and innovation committees and boards.
His stay in USA (1993-1995) gave him a very thorough insight into the research and high-tech industry developments in the USA (MIT, Harvard, Boston Route 128).Between 2000-2003 he was the Secretary General of the EUREKA Secretariat in Brussels running the industrial cooperation platform in Europe among 31 countries and participating in the ERA discussions from an innovation perspective.
In recent years he has been involved in the strategic planning of the National Technology and Innovation Agency, Tekes as the Deputy Director General. Part of this work entails looking for the best practices in countries with leading technology and innovation policies. Following his retirement from Tekes in 2006, Heikki has lectured in many countries about technology and innovation policy and management. |
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Michael O’Connell has extensive international consultancy experience. He was HR Consultant with International Development Ireland in their 3 year transformation programme for Botswana Telecommunications Corporation, the national telecommunications organisation in Botswana. In this project he was member of a consultancy team of 15 professionals. He has also conducted a comprehensive strategic business review of Botswana Meat Commission on behalf of International Development Ireland. In this project he led a team of six professionals to conduct an in-depth analysis of all aspects of the Commissions operations and to make recommendations on its future business strategy.
As HR Consultant for the formation of Tourism Ireland he conducted a HR due diligence of the Bord Fáilte and Northern Ireland Tourist Boards operations’ in 15 overseas locations. |
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Aibhlín McCrann is a Director of Communiqué International and works on the communication elements of change management and organisational restructuring. In this capacity she works as facilitator with groups of all sizes in the private, community and voluntary and public sectors. She has experience of working on Ireland’s largest regeneration project in Ballymun (North Dublin); an ambitious programme of physical, economic, social and environmental regeneration. Aibhlín specialises in the facilitation of career development, CV preparation, job interview techniques and personnel interviewing skills training. Her work also includes media training, communications training, conflict management, strategy development and report preparation and publication. |
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Darren Cunningham, an Irish National, has over 10 years senior management experience in life science companies and is currently an advisor to the life science industry in Ireland, with clients currently in university technology transfer and medical devices. His most recent employment role was with drug development company Amarin Corporation plc where he spent eight years in roles of increasing responsibility, covering business and corporate development – comprising in-licensing, out-licensing, M&A, divestitures, deal negotiation; strategic planning, global intellectual property management, investor relations, fundraising, financial reporting and operations management. Prior to Amarin, Darren was an Associate Director of Strategic Planning at drug company Elan Corporation plc.
Darren holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the National University of Ireland Galway, and a Masters in Accountancy from the Michael Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin. He trained at PricewaterhouseCoopers and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
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Pat MacGovern is an Irish national with extensive experience of industrial development. After 7 years working in a technical capacity mainly in the food industry he has spent 35 years as a senior manager in IDA Ireland attracting overseas investment to Ireland. He has specialised in the pharmaceutical industry and has been directly involved in the establishment of almost every major pharmaceutical project in Ireland over the past 25 years involving investment of several billion Euro. He has developed an extensive knowledge of the manufacturing and research needs of the industry internationally.
He holds a BSc Degree in Organic Chemistry from University College Dublin. |
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Peter Robbins runs the Dublin-based, Innovation Foundation where he works with organisations to accelerate new product and service development. With a background in the pharma industry, Peter has (until recently) been Global Head of Innovation Excellence for GlaxoSmithKline where he had responsibility for managing some of the pipeline for one of the divisions. Prior to that he was Research and NPD Director for one of the company's key therapy areas - Smoking Cessation.
Before that, Peter was GSK's Marketing Director for Scandinavia for the healthcare portfolio; having held a similar position in Ireland for GSK. Before joining GSK, Peter was Head of Marketing for Roche (Consumer Healthcare) in Ireland. Peter is currently completing a PhD and holds a research masters degree in marketing. |
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