Monday, November 8, 2010
event for female entrepreneurs
As part of the EU programme for female entrepreneurship, Dublin Chamber is hosting an event this Friday 5th November to encourage women who want to set up their own business http://www.een-ireland.ie/eei/assets/documents/uploaded/events/PowerfulStrategiesForWomeninBusinessPR.pdf.
Friday, November 5, 2010
our 6th shortlisted entrepreneur - Ed Hendrick, Sonru
Ed Hendrick
While participating in the South East Enterprise Platform Programme in Waterford Institute of Technology in 2007, Ed Hendrick spotted an opportunity to save people time and money during the interview process. He founded Sonru – a company which enables corporates to transform their first round screening process using secure online video technology.
Originally from Rathfardon, Clonroche, Co. Wexford, Ed worked in the motor industry in retail and wholesale sales before setting up Sonru. Clients include
eircom, Allianz Worldwide Care, Dell Perot Systems and PaddyPower.com with Sonru facilitating interviews across all continents from the Americas to Asia. In April of this year, Sonru signed a strategic partnership agreement with Denis O’Brien’s SaonGroup.com and is currently rolling out its product offering across IrishJobs.ie, Jobs.ie, NIJobs.com, MyJobGroup.co.uk and Candidate Manager.
In 2010 alone Sonru has won six major awards including: Innovation Award IIA Net Visionary Awards 2010; Innovate100 Pitch Slam Dublin 2010 and
Bank of Ireland Bright Ideas Challenge Grand Final 2010 (€110K prize).
Ed’s vision for the future is that all first round screening interviews in the world will be conducted using its video interview platform. Sonru operates out of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. www.sonru.com
While participating in the South East Enterprise Platform Programme in Waterford Institute of Technology in 2007, Ed Hendrick spotted an opportunity to save people time and money during the interview process. He founded Sonru – a company which enables corporates to transform their first round screening process using secure online video technology.
Originally from Rathfardon, Clonroche, Co. Wexford, Ed worked in the motor industry in retail and wholesale sales before setting up Sonru. Clients include
eircom, Allianz Worldwide Care, Dell Perot Systems and PaddyPower.com with Sonru facilitating interviews across all continents from the Americas to Asia. In April of this year, Sonru signed a strategic partnership agreement with Denis O’Brien’s SaonGroup.com and is currently rolling out its product offering across IrishJobs.ie, Jobs.ie, NIJobs.com, MyJobGroup.co.uk and Candidate Manager.
In 2010 alone Sonru has won six major awards including: Innovation Award IIA Net Visionary Awards 2010; Innovate100 Pitch Slam Dublin 2010 and
Bank of Ireland Bright Ideas Challenge Grand Final 2010 (€110K prize).
Ed’s vision for the future is that all first round screening interviews in the world will be conducted using its video interview platform. Sonru operates out of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. www.sonru.com
Thursday, November 4, 2010
5th shortlisted entrepreneur - Dr. Emmeline Hill
Our 5th shortlisted entrepreneur - Dr. Emmeline Hill
Traditionally Thoroughbred horses have been selected using only a mix of visual assessment combined with historical bloodline data to infer their likely genetic composition. However, research led by Dr Emmeline Hill at UCD in 2009 resulted in the world’s first successful identification of a performance-related gene in Thoroughbred horses. This gene was found to predict sprinting ability and stamina potential, which can immediately identify a Thoroughbred as a potential sprinter, middle-distance or long-distance horse. Following this breakthrough, Equinome was co-founded by Dr Hill and Jim Bolger, the well known Irish horse breeder and trainer, and the Equinome Speed Gene Test was commercially launched last January.
The company has already secured major clients in Australia, France, Ireland, UK and USA and with new products scheduled for 2011 and 2012, Equinome’s vision is to become the global industry standard for the provision of genetic information to the Thoroughbred horse industry. Other members of Equinome’s team are Donal Ryan, Managing Director and Professor David MacHugh, Scientific Director.
www.equinome.com
Traditionally Thoroughbred horses have been selected using only a mix of visual assessment combined with historical bloodline data to infer their likely genetic composition. However, research led by Dr Emmeline Hill at UCD in 2009 resulted in the world’s first successful identification of a performance-related gene in Thoroughbred horses. This gene was found to predict sprinting ability and stamina potential, which can immediately identify a Thoroughbred as a potential sprinter, middle-distance or long-distance horse. Following this breakthrough, Equinome was co-founded by Dr Hill and Jim Bolger, the well known Irish horse breeder and trainer, and the Equinome Speed Gene Test was commercially launched last January.
The company has already secured major clients in Australia, France, Ireland, UK and USA and with new products scheduled for 2011 and 2012, Equinome’s vision is to become the global industry standard for the provision of genetic information to the Thoroughbred horse industry. Other members of Equinome’s team are Donal Ryan, Managing Director and Professor David MacHugh, Scientific Director.
www.equinome.com
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Mary Kelly of FeePay, our 4th entrepreneur
Our 4th shortlisted entrepreneur and the first featured in the Business category -
Mary Kelly is the Founder and Managing Director of FeePay, which operates out of the Synergy Centre, Tallaght. As membership secretary of Shankill Tennis Club, Mary researched the costs and logistics of setting up a credit card payment system but found it too expensive and too complex a process for the Club. So she decided to set up an affordable and accessible system which would enable clubs and small businesses to accept debit and credit card payments.
FeePay was established in 2008 and offers six different web-based solutions all under the FeePay brand – Enrol, Cart, Console, Invoice, Integration and Mobile. 60 organisations nationwide are using one or more FeePay applications – including Leinster Rugby and Munster Rugby who use the enrolment system for taking bookings for summer camps, schools using the shopping cart to accept payment for schoolbooks, schools using FeePay for enrolment into adult education classes and several businesses using the console application to process telephone orders. Currently employing 4 (1 full-time and 3 part-time), Mary’s business plan predicts staffing levels to reach 35 full time staff by 2014. Mary credits the advice given by mentors at the Synergy Centre, Institute of Technology Tallaght, for helping FeePay to achieve its growth to date. www.feepay.ie
Mary Kelly is the Founder and Managing Director of FeePay, which operates out of the Synergy Centre, Tallaght. As membership secretary of Shankill Tennis Club, Mary researched the costs and logistics of setting up a credit card payment system but found it too expensive and too complex a process for the Club. So she decided to set up an affordable and accessible system which would enable clubs and small businesses to accept debit and credit card payments.
FeePay was established in 2008 and offers six different web-based solutions all under the FeePay brand – Enrol, Cart, Console, Invoice, Integration and Mobile. 60 organisations nationwide are using one or more FeePay applications – including Leinster Rugby and Munster Rugby who use the enrolment system for taking bookings for summer camps, schools using the shopping cart to accept payment for schoolbooks, schools using FeePay for enrolment into adult education classes and several businesses using the console application to process telephone orders. Currently employing 4 (1 full-time and 3 part-time), Mary’s business plan predicts staffing levels to reach 35 full time staff by 2014. Mary credits the advice given by mentors at the Synergy Centre, Institute of Technology Tallaght, for helping FeePay to achieve its growth to date. www.feepay.ie
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
3rd shortlisted DMA 2010 entrepreneur
Our 3rd shortlisted entrepreneur - Angel Luis Gonzalez developed Ireland's first international festival of photography. The PhotoIreland Festival successfully engaged with more than 60 organisations to develop 35 exhibitions in 35 venues showcasing the work of more than 250 photographers. It attracted 45,000 visitors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3u3vYMWT1o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3u3vYMWT1o
Introducing Helium - our second shortlisted entrepreneur
Helene Hugel is the second of our 9 shortlisted entrepreneurs: She established Helium in 2009 to develop arts experiences which have the power to transform a child’s experience of hospitalisation. www.helium.ie
Formerly a puppeteer and children’s theatre-maker, Helene has a qualification in hospital play. She also worked as a clown doctor for five years with Northern Ireland Clown Doctors.
An estimated 200,000 children 0-18 are treated in hospital in Ireland each year and they can feel isolated, helpless and unhappy. Children with chronic illnesses necessitating multiple hospital attendances, difficult procedures and having low energy levels are twice as likely to suffer from low self-esteem and have mental health issues as adults, than healthy children.
There are currently 25 hospitals in Ireland with paediatric wards accounting for 990 inpatient beds. Helium aims to bring its arts programmes to all of these and also into Northern Ireland. Already Helium has helped 450 children, 220 family members, 21 artists and 40 healthcare workers.
Originally from upstate New York, Helene lives and works in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
Formerly a puppeteer and children’s theatre-maker, Helene has a qualification in hospital play. She also worked as a clown doctor for five years with Northern Ireland Clown Doctors.
An estimated 200,000 children 0-18 are treated in hospital in Ireland each year and they can feel isolated, helpless and unhappy. Children with chronic illnesses necessitating multiple hospital attendances, difficult procedures and having low energy levels are twice as likely to suffer from low self-esteem and have mental health issues as adults, than healthy children.
There are currently 25 hospitals in Ireland with paediatric wards accounting for 990 inpatient beds. Helium aims to bring its arts programmes to all of these and also into Northern Ireland. Already Helium has helped 450 children, 220 family members, 21 artists and 40 healthcare workers.
Originally from upstate New York, Helene lives and works in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
Monday, November 1, 2010
An introduction to Dnote - arts entrepreneur
Over the next few days, we're giving an insight into each of our 9 shortlisted entrepreneurs - first up - Peter FitzGerald & Margaret Corcoran of Dnote. Peter and Margaret saw a need for a high quality information system for Culture in Ireland and so began sending Dnotes in August 2009 – an e-notification of all things cultural that were happening in Dublin. The aim of Dnotes is to encourage the general public and tourists to engage more with our art and cultural institutions, to go and view art in private galleries and in public art spaces.
Peter edits Circa Art magazine and Margaret is an artist, represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. They are developing a website and app for Dnotes and want to extend the service nationwide. They also plan to include sport, music and theatre shortly. Peter and Margaret who are married (to each other) are from Dundrum, Dublin.
http://www.dnote.info
Peter edits Circa Art magazine and Margaret is an artist, represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. They are developing a website and app for Dnotes and want to extend the service nationwide. They also plan to include sport, music and theatre shortly. Peter and Margaret who are married (to each other) are from Dundrum, Dublin.
http://www.dnote.info
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