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Local Entrepreneur Returns From Chief Executive Bootcamp in North America

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Local entrepreneur, Vincent Cleary of Glenisk, has returned home from the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ CEO Retreat that took place across Vancouver and Seattle last week.  Attended by the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ finalists and a significant number of the greater Entrepreneur of Year™ Alumni community, the CEO Retreat was focused on equipping the entrepreneurs in attendance with the building blocks to create a robust global vision for their respective businesses.

“For me, this week was all about building bonds and relationships” commented Cleary, an Industry Category finalist in the prestigious business awards programme. “It will certainly take a couple weeks to reflect on all the lessons learned over the past few days.”

The ambitious itinerary included executive education at the University of Washington and University of British Columbia, as well as guest lectures from Singularity University.  In addition to private tours of the EA Sports, Microsoft and Boeing headquarters, the group was addressed by the President and CEO of Boeing Commercial, Ray Conner; leading venture capitalist and former CFO of Microsoft, John Connors; the mastermind behind the world’s first quantum computer, Geordie Rose of D-Wave; founder and CEO of Hootsuite, Ryan Holmes, the Mayor of Seattle Ed Murray, as well as high-ranking executives driving innovation within a number of the world’s largest multinationals.

“Whether they were artists, politicians or chief executives, the speakers we brought in to address and inspire our group all started with a clear vision for global success” commented Frank O’Keeffe, Partner-in-Charge of EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™.  “The knowledge and networks accessed by our entrepreneurs during this Retreat would be indispensable to any forward-looking business leader and having over 100 of Ireland’s key job creators engaged at this level is a considerable asset for the Irish business landscape”

Based on the bootcamp MBA model, the high-octane week put the group of entrepreneurs through their paces as they were encouraged to learn from the speakers, executive education and guest lecture series as well share their experiences and problem-solve with their peers through designated team discussions.  With the greater goal to grow their businesses and create further jobs across the island of Ireland, the CEO Retreat exposed the group to emerging technologies that not only gave them an insight into the future of their respective industries but also provided them with the tools and knowledge to keep them ahead of the curve.

Filming for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ TV series on RTE will commence in late July before the finalists come face-to-face with the independent judging panel for their final assessment.  Chaired by the 2002 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Pádraig Ó Céidigh, the judging panel includes previous winners Denis O’Brien, Jerry Kennelly, Anne Heraty, Liam Casey, Brian Long, Terry Clune, Pat McDonagh, Dr. Edmond Harty and representatives from Enterprise Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland and InterTradeIreland.

EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ (EOY) is the world’s most prestigious business awards programme for entrepreneurs and is run in 145 cities in over 60 countries.  Currently in its 17th year, the EOY Ireland programme has evolved into an exclusive development programme for Ireland’s most impressive entrepreneurs.  Through its annual international CEO Retreat, peer-to-peer mentoring, executive education series and community impact initiatives, the EOY Ireland programme has established a community of 374 leading entrepreneurs and gained a reputation as the best-practice EOY programme globally.

Chaired by the 2002 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Pádraig Ó Céidigh, the independent judging panel includes previous winners Denis O’Brien, Jerry Kennelly, Anne Heraty, Liam Casey, Brian Long, Terry Clune, Pat McDonagh, Dr. Edmond Harty and representatives from Enterprise Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland and InterTradeIreland.

The three category winners as well as the overall winner of EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2014 will be announced at the Awards Gala taking place in Dublin on October 23rd.  The overall winner will then go on to participate at World Entrepreneur Of The Year in Monte Carlo in June 2015.  

EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ is supported by Invest Northern Ireland, InterTradeIreland, Enterprise Ireland, The Irish Times and Newstalk.

The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2014 finalists are:

Emerging
Bill Walsh – Aspire Technology Ltd
Tony Judge – Clubs to Hire
Terry Fox – Cupprint
Oisin Hanrahan – Handybook
Sean Mitchell & David Moloney – Movidius
Andrew Murphy – Sláinte Healthcare
Brendan O’Driscoll & Aidan Sliney – Soundwave
Pat Phelan – Trustev Ltd

Industry
Pat McCann – Dalata Hotel Group plc
John Purdy – Ergo Group
Vincent Cleary, Gerard Cleary, Brian Cleary & Mark Cleary – Glenisk
Ian Haldane – Haldane Shiells Group
Mark Hutchinson – Hutchinson Engineering
Michael Hall & Lorraine Hall – Kestrel Foods
Gregory O’Gorman & Marian O’Gorman – Kilkenny Group
Ian Wilson – Wilsons Auctions Ltd

International
Brian Comer and Luke Comer – Comer Group
Stuart Dobson – Elmgrove Foods Ltd
Mark Roden – Ding.com
Dermot Smurfit – Game Account Network plc
Brian Crowley – TTM Group
George Mullan – SIS Group Ltd
Gabriel Moynagh – Sysnet Global Solutions
Mike Stack – Tricel

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