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Hartnett is a senior technology executive & investor based in Silicon Valley. He has over 25 years of executive level experience leading global sales, marketing, and operations. His career in high tech boasts some of the industry’s leading companies such as Palm, Handspring, Metacreations, Claris/Apple, AT&T, Digital Equipment, and Wang. He is founder and president of the Irish Technology Leadership Group, a network of global Irish technology leaders who’s main focus is to foster the links between Ireland and Silicon Valley in the areas of Innovation, Investment, Education & Entrepreneurship. He is also founder of both Irish Technology Capital, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm and the ‘Irish Innovation Center’, a San Jose based launching pad and incubator for Irish Technology companies. Previously he was Chief Executive Officer at G24 Innovations, a leading thin film solar company. He held the position of Senior Vice President of Global Markets at Palm, Inc., a Nasdaq public company, where he was responsible for worldwide sales, service and support. At Metacreations, a web services software company, he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & Operations. He currently serves on Secretary of State Clinton’s Northern Ireland Working Committee. He is also a member of the Global Irish Economic Forum. In 2011, he was the 25th Anniversary honoree for the “Spirit of Ireland” Award from the San Jose-Dublin Sister City Program. Since 2004, he 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, on the board of the University of Limerick Foundation and is a key member of Limerick Institute of Technology’s (LIT) ‘Thought Leadership’ team. He is a member of The American Ireland Fund. He is the current Chairman of the Board of Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG), a leading global ICT research and innovation center in Waterford, Ireland. Hartnett holds a Marketing Graduateship from the Marketing Institute of Ireland & a post-graduate diploma in Finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He has completed the executive management program at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
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.
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 Stanton - President of the Irish Innovation Center and Executive Director of the ITLG John Stanton is the President of the Irish Innovation Center (IIC) dedicated to the growth of Irish technology start-ups in the Silicon Valley. He also serves as Executive Director of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG), a non-profit aimed at helping Ireland embrace new technology opportunities. In addition, John is a member of the Irish Technology Capital (ITC) management team investing in "Market Changing" early stage, high growth companies. John has amassed a wide variety of technology and entrepreneurial experience over his 25 year career. Prior to joining the IIC in 2010, John served as President of MarketMinds, a consultancy firm he founded dedicated to bringing new products to market. He also served as Founder and CEO of CubeGuard, a simple but elegant office productivity tool for preventing interruptions and communicating availability status to coworkers. Prior to founding his own companies, John served at Palm as Vice President of Product Marketing, Vice President of Mobile Software and Services, and Vice President Customer Support and E-Commerce. Previous to that, he held various leadership positions with several top technology companies in the Silicon Valley including: Apple, Intuit, Hewlett Packard and Eclipse, a highly successful supply chain consulting firm where he played a key leadership role in building the company's double and triple digit growth. |
Founder & President, Irish Technology Leadership Group, Chairman, Irish Technology Capital and Irish Innovation Center 
Cian
Hughes – ITLG Executive Director, Dublin Ireland
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