Finalists Announced
Women Mean Business Conference & Awards 2012
Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin | October 1st 2012
The Women Mean Business Conference and Awards 2012, designed to recognise the outstanding achievements of Ireland’s businesswomen, takes place on Monday October 1st 2012 at Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel, St. Stephen’s Green.
From the unprecedented number of nominations received a shortlist has been collated. An overall winner from each of the following four categories will be announced on October 1st.
Finalists for the WMBusinesswoman of the Year Award 2012 include: Grainne Kelliher, ARAMARK Food Services; Lisa Holt, CPL Resources plc; Julie O’Neill, Gilead Sciences Ltd; Fionnuala Meehan, Google; Carmel O’Boyle, Oracle Direct EMEA.
Finalists for Enterprise Ireland WMB Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2012 include: Sarah Nic Lochlainn, Aruna Sauces; Triona Campbell, beActive International; Ann McGee, McGee Pharma International; Regina Bushell, Grovelands Childcare; Anne Reilly, Paycheck Plus.
Finalists for the Newstalk Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2012 include: Barbara O’Connell, Acquired Brain Injury Ireland; Sinead Gibney, Social Action Ireland at Google; Marcella Finnerty, The Institute of Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy/Village Counselling Service (IICP/VCS); Niamh Gallagher and Michelle O’Donnell Keating, Women for Election; Elaine Geraghty, Inspire Ireland Foundation.
Finalists for the WMB Woman in Technology Award 2012 include: Barbara Anne Murphy, Equilume/UCD; Lavinia Morris, Friends First; Ann-Marie Holmes, Intel Ireland; Orla Cox, Symantec Ltd; Orla Sheridan, Microsoft Ireland; Grainne Barry, AnotherFriend.com.
The awards will be presented at the Women Mean Business Conference & Awards 2012 at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin on October 1st 2012. The conference features a diverse range of speakers (see below). The theme this year is ‘Power The Passion’ and the day will include a panel discussion, facilitated networking with IFG Corporate Pensions and Awards lunch. From 2.30 ”“ 3.30pm the Women Mean Business Awards will be presented to four of Ireland’s leading businesswomen.
Note on Conference Speakers:
The event, which is in its 6th year, will feature Keynote speaker Dawn Gibbins MBE, Philanthropreneur and Founder of Flowcrete ”“ a global flooring company with a turnover reaching £50 million; Entrepreneur and Author Sharon Wright whose pitch on BBC’s Dragons’ Den had all Dragons vying to invest in her invention Magnamole. Also taking to the stage is Professor Susan Vinnicombe OBE, Cranfield School of Management,an expert on gender diversity on corporate boards, women’s leadership styles and author of the annual Female FTSE Report. More information can be found at: http://www.womenmeanbusiness.com/awards
For further information contact:
Rosemary Delaney
WMB Publishing Ltd.,
+353 1 415 5056
+353 86 235 1558
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