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19 May 2024
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Dublin, IE
100+ of Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs travel to South Africa on one of Ireland’s biggest annual unofficial trade missions
- More than 100 Irish entrepreneurs travel to South Africa for the 2024 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ CEO Retreat
- Highlights of the week include a welcome from The Mayor of Cape Town, Geordin Hill-Lewis, meetings with Jannie Durand, CEO of Remgro, Willem Roos, CEO of OUTsurance, Sandra Kramer, EU Ambassador to South Africa, Adrian Gore, CEO of Discovery, and Zelda La Grange, former private secretary to Nelson Mandela
Dublin, 19 May 2023: A delegation of more than 100 of Ireland’s top entrepreneurs travel to South Africa, today for the annual EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ CEO Retreat. Running from Sunday 19th to Sunday 26th May, the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ CEO retreat is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. The aim of the retreat is to support, inspire, and challenge the entrepreneurs to take their businesses to the next level.
The travelling delegation includes this year’s 24 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ finalists as well as programme alumni representing a broad spectrum of industries and representatives from Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland. The Irish entrepreneurs will spend the week in South Africa where they will participate in a comprehensive programme of networking, executive coaching, and education. The itinerary includes meetings with some of South Africa’s most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders as well as inspirational talks by global thought leaders on a variety of topics.
This year’s retreat will also feature visits to University of Cape Town Graduate Business School, township development hub, Philippi Village, start-up incubator, Innovation City, a host of successful companies based in the region.
Roger Wallace, Partner Lead for EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ said:
“The annual CEO retreat is one of the highlights of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year programme. This year’s retreat takes place in South Africa and 100 of Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs are attending, joined by Invest NI and Enterprise Ireland.
"South Africa is the gateway to Africa for investment and global trade. It’s a significant player in the global mining, manufacturing, and agricultural industries, with a flourishing technology sector. It’s also become a thriving hub of entrepreneurial talent with investment in many innovative start-ups based there increasing in recent years. Our group of Irish entrepreneurs will have the chance to experience a melting pot of cultures in South Africa’s capital city, Cape Town, and meet with local entrepreneurs and learn more about the incredible opportunities that exist to trade and thrive in this region.
“Our annual CEO Retreat is designed to help entrepreneurs to think differently, to embrace new ideas and to push themselves even further as they see past conventional boundaries and limits. We hope the retreat will inspire and energise our entrepreneurs and maybe even be the spark that ignites some great new and exciting business possibilities for this talented group of trailblazers.”
Since its inception, the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Ireland™ community has grown to a tight-knit network of more than 600 alumni who harness each other’s wealth of experience, with three quarters (75%) conducting business with one another. Together, the EOY alumni community generates revenues of €23bn, and employs more than 250,000 people across the island of Ireland.
The 2024 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ finalists are:
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Emerging |
Established |
International |
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Kasper Weber Anderson and Liam McMahon of Beyond Creative Limited |
Duncan O’Toole of Captured Carbon |
Rosaleen Hyde and Maxine Hyde of Ballymaloe Foods |
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Seamus Tighe of Ecoplex Energy Solutions |
Hugh Cormican of Cirdan Imaging Ltd |
David Maguire of BNRG Renewables |
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Sharon Cunningham and Orlaith Ryan of Shorla Oncology |
Padraic O’Kane of Corporate.ie |
Kenneth Fox of Channel Mechanics |
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Adrian Gilbane and Will Kennedy of Sons |
Connor McCandless of Energystore Ltd |
Conor Hanley of FIRE1 |
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Jack Kirwan of Sprout & Co |
Sean Moran of Home Project Centre Limited |
Gilbert Yates of Healthcare Ireland |
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Ciaran Burke and Andrea Reynolds of Swoop |
Ruth Mackey, David Mackey and John Mackey of Mbryonics Limited |
Brendan Mee of MTM Engineering |
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Denise Phillips of Voduz |
Clare Hughes of CF Pharma Group (including Telenostic Ltd) |
Ivor Queally of QK Group South Africa |
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Damian Young of ZEUS Mobility |
Dr Barry Flannery of Xerotech |
Jonathan Larbey and Mark Gilmartin of T-Pro |
The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Ireland programme is supported by Premium Corporate Sponsor Julius Baer International, and Government sponsors Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland.
For further information, please visit www.eoy.ie
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About EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™
The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ programme is a global recognition programme run in 145 cities in more than 60 countries. Currently in its 27th year in Ireland, the programme works to recognise, promote, and build a supportive community around Ireland’s high-growth entrepreneurs and is considered one of the strongest programmes globally.
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