Tapping into local experience and knowledge to stay on course
Mol Teic is the legal entity that operates the Dingle Hub. We also get input from a youth advisory board.
Board Members
Muireann Kelliher
Global Head of Bio-Technology for AB-InBev
Chair, Dingle Hub Board
Muireann holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oxford respectively. From there she worked with strategy consultants McKinsey & Co across the Australian & New Zealand and UK & Ireland regional complexes.
She is the Global Head of Biotechnology for AB-InBev. Prior to this, she worked in a variety of corporate strategy, innovation and growth roles in Glanbia plc and Glen Dimplex. She worked with strategy consultants McKinsey & Co. and later established her own boutique strategy advisory consultancy.
She is a long-time strategic advisor to Other Voices, an international music and cultural festival and media platform. She is a co-founder of Ireland’s Edge, an interdisciplinary conference interrogating the merging of the arts, technology, industry and education in Ireland.
She is a member of the Ireland Council at the University of Notre Dame.
Brendan Tuohy
Chair of Eirgrid and Chair of MaREI
Brendan graduated as a Civil Engineer and has over 40 years of relevant experience in both the public and private sectors, as well as over 15 years 0f experience at senior level in government departments responsible for energy.
He was secretary general of the Department of Public Enterprise from 2000 to 2002, and occupied the same role in the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources from 2002 to 2007.
Mike Fitzgerald
Mike Fitzgerald has 28 years of experience in software and wireless networking companies.
Originally a software engineer at Ericsson, Mike entered the business arena in 1991. He was Vice President of two NASDAQ-quoted companies (ADC Telecommunications and interWAVE Communications), and carried out a management buy-out (Microcellular Systems Ltd.) in 1999, and a trade sale (to interWAVE Communications) in 2000. He co-founded the indigenous Irish software company Altobridge Ltd (2002) and between 2000 to 2015 has been a founding investor or board member of several companies including: NewBay, AMCS Group, Mobinets, Mianach Venture Capital, Propylon, Blue Ocean Wireless and Cross Atlantic Productions.
He graduated from University College Cork in 1988 (BA Special Honours, Computers and Mathematics) and Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2008 (Leadership 4 Growth). In 2009, he was named Ernst & Young’s Irish Entrepreneur of the Year (Emerging category) and in 2012 a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum.
Marguerite Sayers
ESB Deputy Chief Executive
ESB Deputy Chief Executive
Prior to her appointment, she worked in various technical and managerial positions in ESB, including Generation Manager, Head of Asset Management for ESB Networks, Executive Director Customer Solutions and Managing Director of ESB Networks DAC. With a degree in Electrical Engineering from UCC, Marguerite is a Chartered Engineer, a fellow and past president of Engineers Ireland, a fellow of the Academy of Engineers, a board member of Energy UK and a governor of The Irish Times Trust.
Kevin O’Donovan
Financial Services Professional
Kevin is a financial services professional with over 40 years experience in the sector.
As a qualified Financial Advisor of the Institute of Bankers and a graduate of UCC with an MComm Hons Degree in Strategic Learning in Organisations, Kevin now advises a small number of client companies on various aspects of business. A key strength is business development allied to a disciplined and structured approach to business growth. Having grown up in a family retail business, customer service has been his career hallmark to date.
Youth Advisory Board
Dingle Hub believes that to realise our sustainable growth vision we need the energy and input of the peninsula’s young people. We’ve had an active and creative youth advisory board in the past, and are actively recruiting a new board. We want to make sure young people — the ones who will build their future careers and businesses on the Dingle Peninsula — are listened to as we plan and build a thriving community.
Interested in being on the youth advisory board? Contact Deirdre at deirdre@dinglehub.com
