As CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, Ronan Dunne runs the largest division of the world’s biggest telecoms giant. The Dublin accountant and former O2 boss talks about wealth inequality, social capital, and the lessons that shaped his stellar career.
The consequences of the Apple case continue to reverberate, with the recently renamed NortonLifeLock just one of the multinationals changing their corporate structures. After intellectual property transfers and the liquidation of corporate entities straddling Ireland and Jersey, new filings provide the missing piece of the jigsaw in the US online security giant’s Irish move: the consolidation of its global sales empire in a Dublin business park.
Irish entrepreneur Cillian Kieran's data privacy start-up Ethyca has just closed its second funding round. In an in-depth interview, he discusses dealing with investors in Wall St and Silicon Valley, doing business in the US amid a pandemic and civil rights protests – and disputes the suggestion that the liquidation of his previous business was a failure.
The head of global agribusiness Alltech finds himself hosting the first virtual edition of his company’s popular annual industry conference. He discusses how food production can navigate “the next normal”, and why his $3 billion firm remains private even as it enters new areas of digital technology and medicine.
Mary McKenna’s travel agency Tour America has sent a generation of Irish tourists to the country now worst hit by the pandemic. She expects no travel until Christmas and her team are busy rescheduling trips - but with a mother in a nursing home, she knows this is not only about business.
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