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Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly

In this podcast, Aidan Donnelly is in discussion with numerous guests to get insights into their journey, their highs and lows, their management styles, and the lessons they have learned along the way. Most of Aidan’s time has been spent focusing on the financials of these companies but what is more fascinating to him is how companies operate, how the entrepreneurs started them, and the business people/managements who run them. But as with most things, a work/life balance is essential, so it won’t

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44: Bronwyn Brophy, CEO of the Vitrolife Group

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2025/01/23

Bronwyn Brophy has over 25 years’ experience in the MedTech industry having also worked for Thermo Fisher Scientific, Medtronic, Covidien, and Johnson & Johnson in a number of senior roles around the globe covering businesses including general surgery, women’s health, gastroenterology, cardiology and oncology.She is now the CEO of the Vitrolife Group, a world leading provider of medical devices and genetic services for the reproductive health industry. The company is headquartered in

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43: Larissa Feeney, CEO of Kinore Finance and...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2025/01/09

Larissa Feeney started out working in hospitality, took a job as a receptionist in an accounting firm and studied for her accountancy qualifications in her spare time. Fast forward to today and she is CEO of Kinore.com, one of Ireland’s Top 20 accountancy practices, which is leading a disruption of the financial sector by establishing the country’s first online, remote-first finance and business services firm.Larissa’s journey from receptionist to CEO is marked by her creative vision and

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42: James Costello, Managing Director of Label Tech...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/12/19

James Costello, is Managing Director of Label Tech Dublin, one of Ireland’s largest independent producers of high-quality labels. With over 30 years of experience in the label printing industry, James has grown Label Tech into the thriving company it is today through his commitment to cutting-edge technology and investment in people. Label Tech has built its reputation on delivering innovative, sustainable, and reliable labelling solutions to businesses across diverse industries.As a recent

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41: Liam Quinlan, Group MD, Quinlan’s Kerry Fish

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2024/12/05

Quinlan’s Kerry Fish, based in Cahersiveen, have become famous for providing the very best Wild, Organic and Superior Smoked Salmon and fresh seafood to customers across the world.The operation was originally started by Danish company called Rainbow who were really ahead of their time with trawlers, fish meal plant, mink farm to use waste etc but went burst soon after and some local fishermen including Michael Quinlan bought the processing factory to secure an outlet for their fish. Although

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40: Next Step Event 2 – Sell it, Scale it, IPO it!

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/11/21

Davy bring you something special for the 40th episode of ‘Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly’.We recently staged the second in our ‘Next Step, Sell it, Scale it, IPO it!’ series of events in the historical and picturesque House of Lords in Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin, to an audience of business owners and entrepreneurs. We had some fantastic speakers join us for an insightful conversation. Aidan was joined by Terry Clune, CEO and founder of CluneTech and Chairman of Transfermate,

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39: 39. Maria Mahon, Chair, Director, Business Owner

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/11/07

Maria Mahon has extensive business experience in leadership positions in the media, technology and service industries. Maria brings a unique blend of international entrepreneurial and leadership experience to the companies she works with at executive, board and advisory level.She has previously held the position of Marketing Director for Dublin’s leading music Radio Station, 98FM working with the programming and marketing teams to restore its No.1 position in the local market and also held the

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38: 38. Sandra Healy, CEO and Founder of inclusio

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/10/24

Sandra Healy is an Engineer, an Organisational Psychologist and NLP Master Practitioner. Sandra's career spanned 20 years in the global telecoms industry and five years at Dublin City University where she established the DCU Centre of Excellence for Diversity & Inclusion. In 2020, Sandra spun inclusio out of DCU.Over the past 18 years, Sandra has championed and driven diversity and inclusion practice across industry and is considered a leading expert. In 2014, she was involved in establishing

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37: 37. Niall McConnell and Nik Healy, co-founders of...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/10/10

Niall McConnell and Nik Healy, co-founders of Convergent. They have spent the entirety of their business life working with companies to dissolve information chaos in business which is a significant barrier to business growth. For businesses to perform optimally, information must be unbound and flowing seamlessly across various systems, departments, and users.Founded in 2014, Convergent is a document and information management consultancy that challenges short-term thinking to solve information,

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36: 36. Paul Henderson, CEO DMG Media Ireland

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/09/26

DMG Media is part of one of the largest media companies in the world and continue to grow their position in Ireland. It is home to some of the best-known media brands in Ireland and the expanding portfolio of websites, newspapers and magazines is crafted every day by 140 staff delivering compelling content to over 3.6m adults in Ireland every month.Over the last 22 years they have been continuously growing both organically and through acquisition and are now one of the largest media content

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35: 35. David Walsh, Chairman at Halo Care.

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/09/12

David Walsh is one of Ireland’s most renowned entrepreneurs. He co-founded Netwatch and as CEO grew it from a small start-up to a truly global organisation employing 560 staff and serving 250,000 customers across four continents, and a leader in proactive video monitoring. At Netwatch, he assembled a world class team and developed a unique culture that led to 68 quarters of continuous growth and impacted the lives of customers across the World. In 2019, he stepped down as chief executive of Netwatch

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34: 34. Conor McCarthy, Executive Chairman at Emerald...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/08/29

Conor McCarthy is an airline industry veteran with over 43 years of experience, a serial entrepreneur and has helped set up several airlines and aerospace companies worldwide.He is the founder of PlaneConsult, an aviation consultancy company, which has, over the past 19 years, worked in many airlines including easyJet, Qantas, Alaska Airlines, Copa, and Thai AirAsia. He has held roles in Aer Lingus Commuter, Ryanair (where he was responsible for the famous 25 minute turnaround, among other

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33: Episode 33. Kim McKenzie Doyle, founder of The...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/08/15

Kim Mackenzie Doyle is an award winning product designer and has held significant roles in both the corporate and non-profit sectors, where she honed skills in leadership, strategic planning, product development and community engagement.With a passion for bridging the gap between industry and education, she is the founder of The B!G Idea, a pioneering non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering young people to tackle local and global challenges. The B!G Idea is a multi-award winning, free,

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32: Episode 32. Alan Lewis, Managing Director at LHW...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/08/01

Alan Lewis, ex-rugby player, who when his rugby career was cut short at an early stage with injury, turned to refereeing with notable success, and has now refereed at international level, at the 2003 and 2007 Rugby World Cups.But he is even better known as the third most capped player in the history of Irish Cricket playing 121 times for his country between 1984 and 1997. He is one of only six players to have played more than 100 times for Ireland. Away from the sports field, although he got a

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31: Episode 31. Barry and Fergal Doyle co-owners of...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/07/18

Well summer is definitely upon us, so the timing of this chat couldn’t be better. On this episode we have brothers Barry and Fergal Doyle who are co-owners of Arboretum. Barry is CEO and Fergal is chief commercial officer.Arboretum Home & Garden Heaven is a second generation, family-owned garden and lifestyle retailer. The multi award-winning business, founded in rural County Carlow in 1977 by horticulturist Rachel Doyle, is today a €14m turnover enterprise employing 200 people in three

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30: Episode 30. Next Step Event – Sell it, Scale it,...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/07/04

The 30th episode of ‘Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly’ is a little different to the norm!We recently staged the first in our ‘Next Step’ series of events in the magnificent surroundings of the old trading floor of The Irish Stock Exchange (Euronext) Building in Dublin, to an audience of business owners and entrepreneurs. Every entrepreneur reaches a point in the evolution of their business when they are faced with the crucial decision of the ‘Next Step’ on its growth pathway and how that

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29: Episode 29. Jody Fanagan, Director at Fanagans...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/06/20

Jody Fanagan joined the family business in 1987 as one of three in the 5th generation to run the company – the 6th generation is now also working there. He was made a director in 1994 and then became the Managing Director in 2013. Fanagan’s is truly a family business established in 1819 and so has been providing excellence in funeral care to families in Dublin for two centuries, looking after 1 in every 4 funerals in the city. But is it not just one family business as the group now encompasses the

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28: Episode 28. Paul McCann, CEO at Ergo

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2024/06/06

Paul McCann first joined Grant Thornton in 2001, and over the next 11 years amassed extensive financial advisory experience. From 2012 -2017 he served two terms as Managing Partner navigating the firm through an accelerated growth period, expanding from 417 to 1,144 people, and growing revenues from €41m to €115.7m.Paul took over as CEO of Ergo in September 2021, bringing with him a reputation in corporate finance for an exceptional grasp of business value and strategies for sustainable growth

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27: Episode 27. Brid O’Connell, CEO at Guaranteed Irish

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2024/05/23

There cant be too many people listening to this that have never heard of the Guaranteed Irish mark. This year Guaranteed Irish celebrates 50 years supporting businesses in Ireland. Since it was first established in 1974 as a national symbol of trust and provenance for business in Ireland, Guaranteed Irish has welcomed over 2000 members.With that milestone, I am delighted to have the CEO of Guaranteed Irish, Brid O’Connell, here with me today. Brid had an unusual path to her current position as she

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26: Episode 26. Niall Norton, Advisor and Mentor

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2024/05/09

Niall Norton began his career training as an accountant and once qualified, followed this up with a stint in Deloitte Corporate Finance before taking up the reigns as CFO with Irish operations of O2, where he was responsible for financial control functions, business process re-design, strategy planning and wholesale. In Feb 2004 he joined Openet as CFO, a company extremely proud of its Irish heritage with a unique ethos that is harnessed to drive success and become a global player in the telecoms

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25: Episode 25. Tom Murphy, Founder / Chairman Pamex...

Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly ·

2024/04/25

For nearly 30 years Pamex has blazed a trail in the Irish Pharmaceutical industry. Its founder Tom Murphy was a leading figure in the pharma industry in the 1980’s and early 1990’s before being made redundant in 1994. Still in his early 40’s and with a young family he found himself on the dole at a time when unemployment in Ireland was at a record high. Using his industry knowledge and backed all the way by his wife, Mary, the couple started the business that has built up a diverse portfolio of

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