Barry is the Managing Director of Sage in Ireland. With a background in small businesses, he leapt into the corporate world in 2011.

His prior background in running SMEs and his extensive international experience in direct and channel businesses has allowed him to apply a rational and customer-centric approach.

Barry has more than 25 years' experience in sales and leadership in various tech and non-tech industry sectors around the world.

"Get out of your comfort zone as often as you can as it helps you to develop – And getting out of your comfort zone is actually fun most of the time, believe it or not."

Barry Murphy

Áine is an entrepreneur having established various businesses and brands within group company structures over the last 20 years.

In June 2016, she founded Ardlinn as Cpl group’s executive search brand with the aim of building an international executive search brand specialising in the recruitment of D and C-level candidates alongside complimentary advisory and consulting services.

“As time has progressed, I have been struck by just how important forging good, honest relationships is which reflects across all aspects of our lives.”

Dr Jon Rudd is a highly effective national and international leader, director and high-performance coach with a broad experience in successful sporting and educational environments, including the development and coaching of high-performance athletes to win Olympic gold medals and set World records.

Jon enriches staff capabilities, develops innovative performance programmes and collaborates with international sports federations and national Olympic committees.

“If you’re looking for success that somebody else has built and piggyback on it, rather than build it yourself, it’s never as successful. I think that's absolutely key; patience and perseverance.”

Dr Jon Rudd

Sile Walsh is a psychological coach, supervisor and organisational consultant. She coaches professionals to be more successful and content in the areas of life, work and relationships.

Sile specialises in utilising authenticity to create strategic and sustainable personal and professional success, based in Dublin, working in person, online and internationally.

“Grit, resilience and the ability to accept failure repeatedly. The ability to be let down without allowing the letdown or the failure to define me. Success is about being myself and in being myself still being able to do what it is I care about effectively.”

Sile Walsh

Cassius Rayner has twenty years experience as a Camera Operator and Director on documentaries, drama, music videos, branding and corporate.

In the last six years, Cassius has been dedicated to creating content using an iPhone to film with and has shot various projects across the world.

He has worked in the USA, Chile, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Europe and Hong Kong. Since 2017 Cassius has received 12 international film awards for his films.

“This isn't a 9-5 job, it's a way of life, your work is apart of you, and you are apart of it. Never reach perfection - to me, the word doesn't exist, until I retire or drop dead on a film shoot I will never stop learning and so never reach perfection - because of what's beyond that - embrace your flaws, mistakes and always move forward.”

Cassius Rayner

Krissy Gibson founded Take the Cake in February 2017. It has grown at a fast pace because of the quality of her cakes.

In 2019, their best-selling Carrot Cake won a Great Taste Award through The Guild of Fine Food. Based in Mulhuddart, Take the Cake doubled the size of their bakery in April 2019.

“Listen to your instincts – they are your only true compass. You cannot plot your course based on others' paths and experiences. Don't get distracted by outside 'noise'.”

Krissy Gibson

Janni Sjostrand, Swedish. Living in Ireland for over ten years. She moved to Ireland because she thought Ireland was the best place for her to follow her passion, horses. In 2016 Imagine Sporthorses was founded, and it has since sold and exported hundreds of horses. They are also breeders and active within Showjumping in Ireland.

“Regardless if you are trying to build a million euro industry, and have thousands of employees, or you want to run a small business with a particular ethos, you need to figure out how to "do you" and go for it. Then work-life will always be easy.”

Janni Sjostrand

Conor Battigan is Chief Executive Officer of Sandyford Business District, the largest business improvement district on the island of Ireland and home to 1,000 companies employing over 26,000 people.

“Success can be measured on a number of levels. If the balance sheet is healthy or stakeholders and customers hold you in high regard, and you have struck a good work-life balance, then you have it nailed. The key learning in life for me is that you shouldn’t be afraid to say no.”

Conor Battigan

Branka Injac Misic is Co-Founder of GigSuper – a superannuation fund built on the simple idea that you shouldn’t need to be a finance expert to do super properly when you’re self-employed. Branka currently looks after CX and community at GigSuper.

“There’s no use in wasting hours and hours nose-deep in theory. The only way to get really good at crafting great experiences is to roll your sleeves up, get to deeply know the people whose problems you’re solving, and do the work – always testing and iterating.”

Branka Injac Misic

Jude Browne started her working life as a psychologist, turned London agency account planner - fascinated why people chose 'this' over 'that'. After a spell at News International plc, sharpening her commercial skills, Jude took leave off work to study full-time for an MBA in London, to learn the theory behind the practice.

“Defend your ideas, contest ideas, and remember the golden rule: "this is supposed to be fun".

Just be the best that you can be—every day. And don't beat yourself up, because tomorrow is another day.”

Jude Browne