Bonkers about Dialogue: New IIA Board Members appointed

The two new board members are David Kerr of Bonkers.ie, and Jermain Williams of Dialogue.

David Kerr is the founder and Managing Director of Bonkers Money Ltd which runs personal finance & price comparison website www.bonkers.ie.  

David has 15 years experience working in high technology businesses, and has worked for the past 11 years in the price comparison space in the Ireland, the UK & mainland Europe. Prior to founding bonkers.ie, David was CEO of Xelector plc, a supplier of white-label price comparison software & services to leading UK price comparison brands, newspaper groups, internet portals and retailers. Previously David was a Lead Researcher at Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd specializing in distributed systems for telecommunications network management.

David holds an MSc from Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden and a BSc from University College Dublin.

Jermain Williams or Jazz (as he is known to his friends) is Director of Digital with Dialogue has over fifteen years’ experience both in design and IT including hardware/software consultancy and project management.

After receiving a B.A. in computer aided design, Jazz began his career as a creative working with a number of large comic book clients including Marvel, Valiant and DC Comics.

After a short period in IT he moved into Web Development. He has since then worked with a number of well-known clients including Apple Computers, Lifestyle Sports and 98FM.

He has been directly responsible for many of the new initiatives Dialogue Interactive has brought to the Irish market and has worked with clients including Microsoft, EA, Universal, Nokia and Xbox.

Maeve Kneafsey of Elucidate, IIA Chair, thanked retiring board members, Eoin Kennedy of Slattery Communications and Shenda Loughnane of Aegis, for their service to the IIA.

Reports were also delivered at the AGM by the Chair, the Treasurer, Maurice Mortell of Data Electronics and the CEO, Joan Mulvihill. Minutes of the meeting will be made available to members on IIA.ie.