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Prior to joining G24i, Mr. Hartnett was senior vice president of global markets at Palm, Inc., where he was responsible for worldwide sales, service and support. Previously, Mr. Hartnett was executive vice president of worldwide operations, service, support and eCommerce at Handspring, Inc. and was an integral member of the executive leadership team that led the 2003 merger of Handspring and palmOne to form what is known today as Palm, Inc.
He has over 20 years of senior management experience across sales, marketing, and operations in the U.S. and Ireland. His career in high tech boasts some of the industry’s leading companies such as Handspring, Metacreations, Claris, AT&T, Digital Equipment, and Wang. Since 2004, Mr. Hartnett has been annually honored as one of the top 100 Irish American business executives in the U.S. by Irish America Magazine. He is a member of the Wireless Advisory Board in the U.S. for Enterprise Ireland and is the President and Chairman, as well as a founding member, of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) in the U.S. Mr. Hartnett earned a marketing degree through the Marketing Institute of Ireland, a post-graduate diploma in finance through the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and completed the executive management program at Stanford University. He is a native of Limerick, and on the board of the University of Limerick Foundation. John is a member of The American Ireland Fund and the US-Ireland Alliance.
Cian Hughes currently operates as a full-time executive consultant where he specializes in Business Management, Operations & Strategic Management and new business startups in the High-Tech sector. Cian Hughes has held key positions in General Management, Operations Management and Localization Management with some of the worlds leading organizations over the past 19 years including Lotus/IBM, ITP (now SDL), Intel, MetaCreations (now Viewpoint), Pivotal, Curious Labs (now e-frontier). Additionally Cian played a key role in start up of the International Operations entities in Ireland for MetaCreations, Curious Labs & Pivotal. Cian holds a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from University
College, Dublin, Ireland, and a Diploma in Management from
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
At Sling Media, the digital media company that develops and markets the Slingbox and SlingPlayer technologies, Johnny has been responsible for growing the company from a startup consumer electronics company to becoming an integral part of Echostar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS), the Denver based video technology provider. He was instrumental in guiding Sling through the successful acquisition by EchoStar in October 2007. Sling continues to offer new, innovative and award winning ways for consumers to experience broadcast and IP delivered video content. Prior to joining Sling, Johnny worked at smartphone device manufacturer Handspring (acquired by Palm) and prior to that, with Iomega Corporation. He started his career with 10 years in the strategic and operations consulting practices of Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting. He has extensive international experience having worked in the UK, the Netherlands, Australia and the United States.
Richard Moran, Ph.D. - Partner, Venrock, Inc. Rich Moran joined Venrock in 2007. As a 25-year veteran of Silicon Valley, Rich has served as a business consultant, social scientist, best selling author and evangelist for organization effectiveness. Previously, he served as a Partner at Accenture in the technology, entertainment, media and entertainment practice. Rich has written five best selling books, including his latest, Nuts, Bolts and Jolts and in his spare time, he runs a small, family vineyard and winery in Knights Valley. |
John
Hartnett - G24 Innovations
Cian
Hughes – ITLG Executive Director, Dublin Ireland
Johnny Gilmore - CEO, Sling Media, Inc. (USA)
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