Declan is an experienced technology and business professional. Has 30+ years working with (A) Multinational companies such as Motorola, Ericsson and France Telecom (13 years)(B) Start Up entrepreneurial companies scaling for success (20 years)Having founded, funded, scaled and exited his own companies, Declan has the true entrepreneurial leadership skills to build teams, win new business and scale operations internationally. He specialises in the crossover of Business & Technology Convergence, bringing about financially driven change management, new product development, expert programme portfolio management, new market establishment and can assume with credibility key executive roles for scaling businesses internationally.Being a serial business and technical entrepreneur, Declan has sound practical business and technical expertise ranging from executive multinational roles, building a successful company from the original concept stage and exiting it to IBM, to leading his own Management Consultancy. Also active involvement in Industry Bodies, strong coaching expertise, is a Certified Project Manager Professional (PMP), has performed key Business Process Review / Programme delivery and Transformation roles and has real company organisation restructuring expertise in multi disciplinary environment.Declan has strong presentation and communication skills at most senior levels coupled with a lot of experience in writing business plans and proposals which resulted in wining new business or raising external support and investment. Programme Management, problem solving, business process re-engineering, contract negotiation and creating revenue-generating partnerships are of keen interest. In particular managing schedule, change, risk, resourcing and budget within a portfolio of projects and reporting with credible metrics to all stakeholders is a skill that I have refined over 30 years of varied programme/project management deliverables.Chairman of UCC Gateway (University College Cork) – key focus is to spinout IP based companies within the research community, with scalable technology and credible business plans that are worthy of additional funding.Director of Cork Business & Innovation Centre (CorkBIC) – Cork based Entrepreneurial, Venture and Technology Consultancy. Includes representation from EI, UCC and Industry.
Listed skills include New Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, Mobile Devices, and 26 others.