Judges & MC

• Irene Dehaene
• Mark French
• John Mitchell

• Irene Dehaene

  Organisation: IIA

  Job Title: Training & Events Manager

   

  Irene Dehaene is an experienced marketing professional in the international ICT sector and has extensive experience of event management from seminars to training rallies and conferences.

  Prior to joining the IIA, Irene held senior marketing and PR roles with Cybertrust, the global information security specialist, Baltimore Technologies and Jinny Software, the mobile messaging company. She is a guest lecturer on a number of marketing courses in Dublin and Limerick, writes for business magazines and is a past Chairperson of the Marketing Institute’s Eastern Regional Council.

  Irene holds an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a BA (Hons) in International Marketing and Languages from Dublin City University.
  

  Irene is Co-Ordinating Judge on the 2010 panel.

  

• Mark French

  Organisation: Muzu.tv

  Job Title: 

  Overall Net Visionary 2009 - visit www.muzu.tv

• John Mitchell

  Organisation: Strata3

  Job Title: Managing Director

   

  John qualified with a degree & masters in economics and subsequently trained as a financial analyst in JP Morgan (Global Bank) in New York, specialising in telecoms & emerging technologies.   Returning to Ireland in 1999, he co-founded hiTouch.com; a telecoms technology firm, servicing clients such as eircom net & Vodafone.  In 2000 John returned to the US with Orbiscom, a payments technology company specialising in controlled number technology where he consulted and sold to Tier 1 banks and card-schemes such as MasterCard, Citibank & Wells Fargo.  
  
  Since joining Strata3 in 2002, John has had responsibility for overall management, strategy, partnerships & business development for the company.  He is a recognised consultant in the combined of web development & IT infrastructure.  John is also an active contributor & speaker on the topics of web strategy with the Irish Internet Association & other industry bodies