Name

Frank

Position

Board Advisor

Location

Cork, Ireland

Big Business Experience

ALPS Alpine

RTÉ

Small Business Experience

Examiner Newspapers

Ireland On-Line

Summary

Frank loves working with scaling SMEs.

Big enough to make an impact, small enough to care for every customer.

His experience is rich and varied:
-Start-up Founder, Advisor, Investor and Senior Executive.
-Worked with SMEs and larger companies.
-Non-Executive Director roles since 1999.

Mentor and Coach since 2000 working with Enterprise Ireland, EBRD, World Bank, European Commission and SFA among others.

Qualifications

• Business graduate, Trinity College, University of Dublin
• MMII – Member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland.
• FIMCA – Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants and Advisors.
• CMC – Certified Management Consultant.
• EMCC Accredited Coach at Senior Practitioner level.

Key Areas of Expertise

• Strategy
• Commercialisation
• Innovation Management
• Leadership development
• Competitiveness

Experience

• Executive.
  • Founder at StrategyCrowd 2003
  • CEO and Founder at Inhance Technology (Cork), ‘04– ‘08
  • Sales & Marketing Director at Digiserve, ‘99- ‘03
  • Director at Net Results (Dublin), ‘97- ‘98
  • Sales & Marketing Manager at Ireland On-Line (Dublin), ‘96 – ‘98
  • Head of Sales & Marketing at Examiner Newspapers (Cork) ‘94- ‘97
  • Sales & Marketing Manager at Hot Press (Dublin) ‘92 – ‘94
  • Financial Advertising Manager at Sunday Tribune (Dublin) ‘90 – ‘92
  • Graduate Trainee at Kompass Ireland (Dublin) ‘88 – ‘90
  • Sales Executive at Sunshine Radio (Dublin) ‘83 – ‘88

• Advisor, 25 years.
  • Partner, Strategy Crowd
  • Advisor, ALPS Alpine
  • Advisor, Hibernian Healthcare
  • Advisor, Cobots
  • Director, MBC Insurance
  • Advisor, Sadeem Technologies
  • Ash Vision
  • European Commission – Advisor, Horizon
  • Board Member, RTÉ
  • Director, Institute of Management Consultants and Advisors
  • EBRD – Senior Industry Advisor, Team Coordinator
  • Enterprise Ireland – Advisor, multiple programmes
  • Sustainable Nation Ireland
  • World Bank – Innovation Funds, Serbia, Georgia, Montenegro