Judges & MC

• Gareth Dunlop (MC)
• Peter Callan
• Irene Dehaene
• Ciaran Delaney
• Mark French
• Bernie Goldbach
• John Mitchell
• Eoin O'Siochru

• Gareth Dunlop (MC)

  Organisation: Ion Online Marketing

  Job Title: Managing Director

  
  Gareth is the Managing Director of Ion, a leading digital strategy and marketing company, headquartered in Belfast and with major clients in 15 countries.  Prior to that he was the Managing Director of Tibus, the largest and most successful web development agency in Ireland, from 2002 to 2009.  Involved in the internet since 1996, he has gained massive commercial experience advising blue chip clients in Ireland, UK and Europe on internet strategy and best practice.

  A Board Member of the Irish Internet Association, and Chairman of WeddingsOnline.ie, Gareth writes & lectures extensively on internet related matters. He occupies regular columns in SiliconRepublic.com and the Irish Independent in the Republic of Ireland, and Business Eye magazine in Northern Ireland.

  

• Peter Callan

  Organisation: DigitalworX

  Job Title: Managing Director

  
  Peter Callan is managing director of DigitalworX limited, the digital division of The Irish Times Ltd which runs Ireland.com, MyHome.ie, irishracing.com and its interest in entertainment.ie and Electric Media.

  Peter joined The Irish Times in 2004 and previously held the role of group financial controller.

  He qualified as a chartered accountant with BDO before spending four years with the Techrete group as financial controller. He also held a number of senior roles over a five-year period at electro mechanical group APW, including vice-president of finance for Europe Asia and South America, and general manager and finance director of its Dublin operation.

  

• 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.

  

• Ciaran Delaney

  Organisation: MeetingsBooker.com

  Job Title: Founder

  
  Ciaran is the founder of http://www.meetingsbooker.com which allows you to book over 1,800 meeting rooms in 18 countries. Meetingsbooker.com also provides meeting room online reservations software to hotels such as Clarion, Bewleys and Park Plaza.
  
  Ciaran Delaney has over 12 years internet marketing experience working for semi state bodies, private companies and his own ventures.

  Ciaran worked with Tourism Ireland for seven years covering the Scandinavian and Italian markets before returning to Ireland to set up the Discoverireland.com websites. He later joined Citywest Hotel as Director of Marketing where he doubled online revenue before setting up his own internet consultancy business. Ciaran is a renowned expert in hospitality internet marketing and runs the Hotelwebsitemarketing.com conference in Dublin each year. Ciaran previously sat on the Irish Hotel Federations marketing committee and is also a board member of HSMAI Ireland.
  
  http://www.meetingsbooker.com
  http://www.hotelwebsitemarketing.com

  

• Mark French

  Organisation: Muzu.tv

  Job Title: Co-Founder

  Overall Net Visionary 2009 - visit www.muzu.tv

  Mark has over 15 years experience as an entrepreneur across all aspects of the music industry. Mark gained extensive knowledge of the music industry on a global level through his independent label, management and publishing company, Key Records Ltd. Mark also owns events companies Creative Events and Discover Dublin.

  Mark has been instrumental on the development of the product to suit the needs of the key stakeholders in the business dealing with artists, labels, publishers and festivals. Responsibilities at MUZU include product development, publisher partners and marketing.

  

• Bernie Goldbach

  Organisation: Tipperary Institute

  Job Title: Creative Multimedia Lecturer & Social Media Advocate

  
  Bernie Goldbach teaches social media as a third level module in the creative multimedia degree programme at Tipperary Institute. Since co-developing the multimedia degree programme there, records show that 18 of his students were among the first 100 people in Ireland to use Twitter back in 2006. Bernie has blogged regularly since 2001, amassing more than three million page views. He also teaches how to write online narratives and has produced iTunes podcasts since 2005. His presentations feature every year during the Irish Learning Technology Association and as part of DIT's e-learning week. He manages the OpenCoffee Ireland group on LinkedIn, numbering more than 1100 members.

  

• 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

  

• Eoin O'Siochru

  Organisation: Enterprise Ireland

  Job Title: Manager, Internet Marketing Unit

  
  Eoin currently manages the Internet Marketing Unit in Enterprise Ireland. The role of the Unit is to assist EI's SME clients with a strategic export development focus to make the optimum use of the Internet channel to market their products and services. 

  Prior to his current position, he worked as a Development Advisor/Project Executive in Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland helping SME client companies to development their businesses. He was an active member of the National eBusiness Strategy Implementation Group under the aegis of the Dept of Enterprise Trade and Employment.