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Spring Tech Talk Series Tuesday 11th February Rich Mironov Seasoned product executive, start-up entrepreneur, author and technologist Thursday 6th March Russell Acton EMEA Business, Pivotal Tuesday 10th April Cathriona Hallahan Managing Director, Microsoft Ireland Venue Council Chambers County Hall To register contact Sarah Walsh at [email protected] Designed by Smarttech.ie Kindly sponsored by
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Spring TechTalk SeriesTuesday 11th FebruaryRich MironovSeasoned product executive, start-up entrepreneur, author and technologist
Thursday 6th MarchRussell ActonEMEA Business, Pivotal Tuesday 10th AprilCathriona HallahanManaging Director, Microsoft Ireland
Venue Council ChambersCounty Hall
To register contact Sarah Walsh at [email protected]
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Rich MironovSeasoned product executive, start-up entrepreneur, author and technologist
Tuesday 11th February
5:30PMVenue Council Chambers County Hall
To register contact Sarah Walsh at [email protected]
BIORich is a seasoned software executive and serial entrepreneur: the "product guy" at six startups including as CEO and VP Marketing/Products. With deep technical roots in B2B infrastructure, SaaS and consumer online, Rich combines “what-we-can-build” with “what-markets-want”. He consults/speaks/blogs on product strategy, product management, agile and organizing cross-functional organizations.
Rich has provided full-time and short-term product management consulting to more than 50 tech companies. He attacks both customer-facing and engineering issues with special expertise in product strategy, pricing/business models, technology roadmaps, agile and go-to-market. Lately, also helping execs interview/hire product management leadership.
He wrote "The Art of Product Management" and is a voice for the scrappy entrepreneur in all of us. Founder of Product Camp, he's an in-demand speaker for business/executive and technical audiences. Rich has guest-lectured at top business schools worldwide, served on the board of SVPMA, and chaired the first product mgmt/product owner tracks at the annual Agile Conference.
Specialties: Executive-level product management ("interim VP Products") and organizational leadership for tech companies:
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how to structure, hire, mentor and drive product teams toward great software. Product/portfolio strategy, business models, agile product management, market assessments. Deep technical experience in networking, security, cloud/SaaS, transactions and scalable computing.
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Russell ActonEMEA Business, Pivotal
Thursday 6th March
5:30PMVenue Council Chambers County Hall
To register contact Sarah Walsh at [email protected]
BIORussell runs the EMEA business for Pivotal. The latest new company from founders, EMC and VMware focusing on the next generation platform.
Pivotal aims to bring disruptive improvements for organisations looking to adapt to the changing business landscape through 'Big Data driven applications'.
Prior to Pivotal, Russell ran the vFabric business unit in EMEA at VMware, the place where Cloud Foundry, Springsource, the popular open source Spring Framework and Gemfire Real-time in memory technology lived before Pivotal was created.
Russell has an extensive background in Cloud and open source technologies along with business applications from a career which goes back over 25 years.
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Cathriona HallahanManaging Director, Microsoft Ireland
Tuesday 10th April
5:30PMVenue Council Chambers County Hall
To register contact Sarah Walsh at [email protected]
BIOCathriona Hallahan is Managing Director for Microsoft in Ireland, responsible for driving Microsoft’s commercial and consumer business on the island of Ireland. In addition to managing the continued growth and expansion of the business, Cathriona also represents the Company on all strategic policy, corporate affairs and communications issues including overseeing a series of community, education and innovation programmes.
Cathriona joined Microsoft in 1986 and over the past 27 years has held a variety of senior roles in both Finance and Operations. She has managed large teams with regional and global responsibilities across a range of functions including global responsibilities for MBS and Enterprise Services as well as directing Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Customer Care and IT & Financial support for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Immediately prior to assuming her new role, Cathriona was Managing Director for Microsoft’s Dublin based EMEA Operations Centre (EOC) for the past four years. In this role, she was responsible for a 600 strong team that manages Operations across 120 countries. In addition to her Microsoft responsibilities she also sits on the boards of Vhi Healthcare, Solas, of the Irish Dance Council and of the Children’s Hospital Group Board.
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She is a member of the International Women’s Forum, the Institute of Directors, the Institute of Accounting Technicians (IATI) and is a fellow of ACCA.
Cathriona is a qualified Executive Coach and is passionate about Change Management and Leadership Development.
She was named as the 2009 O2 WMB Businesswoman of the Year, one of the 2013 WXN 25 Most Powerful women in Ireland, and Business & Finance Person of the Month during 2013.
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