Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast

Simon McKeever joined the Irish Exporters Association as Chief Executive in October 2013 where he is responsible for leading a team of 20 people who work with companies across the Irish export industry. 

Prior to Simon taking up his current position as Chief Executive, he spent 3 years as Director of Trade and Investment at the British Embassy in Dublin, which placed him at the forefront of joint trade strategy between Ireland and the UK, where he developed a close working relationship between UK Trade and Investment and Enterprise Ireland. Simon was behind the creation of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce, and his leadership on the Agri-food agenda created a joint initiative that has enabled the first Irish British Food Business Innovation Summit in Dublin.

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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On this weeks episode we have Aidan Mehigan Gortinore Distillery

A visit to a distillery in Detroit sparked Aidan’s love affair with whiskey. Intrigued by the alchemy, he took a distilling course, literally bumped in to Jordan in a carpark and ended up working in Breckenridge Distillery, observing the craft at the coalface of whiskey production. It was here that the vision for Natterjack Irish Whiskey was born. It wasn’t long before he quit his job in London, returned to Ireland, and set about creating Gortinore Distillers & Co. The rest, as they say, is history.

Patrick Daly

www.albalogistics.com 

Author of the book International Supply Chain Relationships:

Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Economy

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Today we are heading back across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, more precisely into the tropical regions of Central America where a string of small countries occupy a long thin strip of land that connects the North American and South American continents.

We are headed to Panama, a country that is geographically very strategically positioned, controlling as it does, the Panama Canal that connects the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. Panama is one of the most developed and fast-growing economies in the region and is a crucial transport and logistics hub on a global scale.

Joining us from Panama will be a Louis O’Connor a south Dublin local, like myself, who is a business man and investor who has been living in Panama for many years with his Panamanian wife and family.

Louis has a long history in business overseas going back over thirty years with stints in Germany, US as well as Panama and Ireland. Currently he is working on several exciting investment initiatives in precision agriculture initiatives related to the production of strawberries, aloe vera and other produce.

I am delighted to have Louis join us on the line to talk about his experiences and reflections on doing business internationally and to get his perspective on the future opportunities and challenges that are visible from his perspective in Panama.

Patrick Daly

http://www.albalogistics.com/

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On this week show we have Steven Hunt.

Steven helps senior managers, their team and companies to adapt to change, to deal with the human dynamics of change and to get their plans implemented.

• Typical projects for Steven are post-merger integration, re-structuring, cross-border collaboration and change project on a global level.
• Steven specialises in advising international managers on how to put their change plans into practice.
• Steven has worked in 28 countries and with 58 nationalities.
• He has worked in Madrid for four years (in the mid-1990s) and since 2001 in Germany, near Düsseldorf.
• He’s British, and since 2017 also German, thanks to Brexit.

Patrick Daly

http://www.albalogistics.com/

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