Advertisement

Web Summit announces 100 new jobs

Web Summit plans to create 100 new positions at its Dublin headquarters during the coming year. T...
Newstalk
Newstalk

14.45 16 Feb 2016


Share this article


Web Summit announces 100 new j...

Web Summit announces 100 new jobs

Newstalk
Newstalk

14.45 16 Feb 2016


Share this article


Web Summit plans to create 100 new positions at its Dublin headquarters during the coming year.

This is on top of 73 jobs created during 2015 which doubled the company's workforce.

In a blog post, co-founder Paddy Cosgrave said the positions are in "sales, engineering, data science and more" and that all of the vacancies will be based in Dublin.

Advertisement

The statement also welcomed Giuseppe Vitulano, Google’s former head of sales in EMEA, to the company. He will lead its growing sales teams.

Sharing the announcement, Mr Cosgrave joked that 71 of the 73 people hired last year were not Trinity College graduates - referring to a previous controversy where he expressed a strong preference for hiring staff from the Dublin university where he was educated.

The company's first Web Summit in Lisbon will take place between November 7th and 10th, 2016. It will hold its first conference in India, SURGE in Bengaluru next week, it is expected to attract 5,000 attendees. The company will host events in New Orleans and Hong Kong during the year.

Its founders criticised Irish policy makers for not doing more to accommodate the event in the Irish capital, this included the release of emails between its organisers and the Department of the Taoiseach.


Share this article


Read more about

Business

Most Popular