Mr Robert Grier has been appointed chief executive of the Irish Business Employers Confederation/Confederation of British Industry joint business council. Prior to this appointment, Mr Grier was IBEC director of corporate affairs.
Mr Liam Meaney has joined the board of GDL Design Group as non-executive director. Mr Meaney is managing director of Tennents Ireland and is on the board of Bass Ireland Limited.
Energia has hired Mr Alan Cooke as senior key account manager for Ireland. Mr Cooke formerly worked for ePower.
Pfizer Ireland has strengthened its cardiovascular therapy area with the appointment of Mr John McCarthy as national sales manager. Mr McCarthy will lead a salesforce of 14 to market cholesterol-lowering drug, Lipitor and other cardiovascular products.
Newstalk 106FM, the consortium awarded the radio licence for the news and speech service for Dublin city and county, has appointed Mr Paul Kavanagh as chief executive.
Belfast-based Pinnacle Computing recently announced a number of senior appointments. Mr James Spencer has joined the company as operations director from Sage Enterprise, while Mr David Paterson has been hired as business design consultant and will be based in Widness in Britain. Ms Carol Black has joined the company's central marketing department as telemarketing executive.
Former Galway city engineer, Mr Tom Kilgarriff, has joined CDM, the consulting, engineering, construction and operations firm that recently began operations in Galway.
Boyle Design Group has announced the appointment of Ms Suzanne Trulock as business development manager.
Three new appointments have been announced at Cable & Wireless. Mr Ken Ryan has been appointed as customer service director for the new Cable & Wireless systems integration division in Ireland. Cable & Wireless has also promoted Mr Barry Moylan to sales and marketing director for the Irish systems integration division. The company has appointed Mr Ed Pettit as regional sales manager of its business in the south and west of Ireland.
InterIM Solutions, the interim management company of MERC Partners, has appointed Mr Joe O'Mahony as an associate.
Mr James Whelan has been hired as internet systems engineer with Genuity, the internet infrastructure and e-business network provider.
Riley Advertising has named Mr Patrick Ryan as agency director of its new Dublin office. Mr Ryan formerly ran his own agency, after spells in both London and Belfast working for recruitment and product agencies.
WS2, the Dublin-based applications development company has appointed Mr Conor Molloy as its new business development manager. Mr Molloy will be responsible for growing sales, developing partnerships and marketing.
Former WorldCom Ireland managing director Mr David Hughes has joined eTel Group as an executive director. Mr Hughes will work with eTel's management team in developing its business in central Europe.
Mr Kevin Thompstone has been appointed as the new chief executive of regional development company Shannon Development. Mr Thompstone has operated as acting chief executive of Shannon Development since August 2000.
Ms Jacinta Ryan has been appointed account director of public relations firm Simpson Financial & Technology PR. Ms Ryan joined the firm in 1998 and prior to that worked as a freelance journalist.
Datalex has announced that Mr Paschal Taggart has been appointed to its board as a non-executive director. Mr Taggart is a partner in Cooney Taggart financial consultants in Dublin. He is also chairman of Orbiscom and Bord na gCon, the Irish greyhound racing board.
Mr Bernard Byrne has been appointed to the board of ESB by the Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms O'Rourke. Mr Byrne is group finance director with IWP International, the personal care and household products company.
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