Business veterans Patrick Delaney and Pádraic Gilligan have handed over the reins of their boutique enterprise occasions consultancy, SoolNua. Lengthy-time crew members Aoife McCrum and Gráinne Ní Ghiollagáin have taken over as joint House owners and Managing Companions.
Delaney and Gilligan based the Dublin-based consultancy, whose title means “new eye” in Irish, in 2014, with a mission to supply recent views to the enterprise occasions sector. The corporate has said that it intentionally maintains its boutique dimension to make sure purchasers obtain direct entry to seasoned business specialists reasonably than junior consultants.
The transition comes as Gilligan stepped down in December after seven years as Chief Advertising Officer on the Society for Incentive Journey Excellence (SITE), a consumer of SoolNua,
“With a recent perspective and a renewed imaginative and prescient, we’re excited to be shaping the way forward for SoolNua, driving innovation, and delivering distinctive worth for our purchasers,” mentioned McCrum, who has been with the corporate since its founding.
The management change additionally represents a welcome shift in business possession demographics. “As a women-owned enterprise we’re dedicated to the variety, fairness, and inclusion ethos that has been intrinsic to the enterprise because it was first began,” famous Ní Ghiollagáin.
Each Delaney and Gilligan will stay linked to the enterprise they constructed. Delaney will function an advisor on choose initiatives and Gilligan will proceed to supply strategic course as a part of the operational crew. The consultancy will keep its concentrate on serving to locations, accommodations, venues, and companies with technique, advertising, and coaching.
Delaney and Gilligan’s partnership spans three many years. It began when Gilligan left a 13-year profession in schooling to hitch Delaney in founding Delaney Advertising Consultants in 1994. The pair then acquired Ovation in 2002 and bought it to MCI in 2007. They stayed on, main MCI’s enlargement of Ovation globally to over 100 locations, earlier than organising SoolNua in 2014. Each have served as worldwide presidents of SITE and have obtained quite a few business accolades.
