Business Awards

The Business Person of the Month Award acknowledges excellence and outstanding achievement among Irish business leaders, both at home and abroad, and executives leading major multinational companies in Ireland.The second annual Irish Times Business Awards will be held in Dublin next spring.

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Ken Bowles with Tony Smurfit, Smurfit Kappa chief executive. Photograph: Maxwell Photography

Meet the shortlist for the Irish Times CFO of the Year Award

Ken Bowles, Eamonn Crowley, Les Wood and Marie Joyce are the four contenders

Irish Times Business Person of the Month Awards

David Walsh, Eddie O’Connor and Peter Jackson won for the last three months

‘The Irish Times’ Business Person of the Month: Dómhnal Slattery

Aircraft lessor Avolon, headed by industry veteran, raised €1.1bn

‘The Irish Times’ Business People of the Month: Stripe founders Patrick and John Collison

‘The Irish Times’ Business People of the Month: Patrick and John Collison

Company founded by Limerick-born brothers raises $100m, valuing it at $22.5bn

Pictured at the launch of this year’s The Irish Times Business Awards in association with KPMG, were Eimear Moran, media solutions director with the Irish Times; KPMG managing partner Shaun Murphy, and Cathriona Hallahan, managing director of Microsoft Ireland and chair of the judging panel. Photograph: Kieran Harnett

‘The Irish Times’ launches second annual business awards

Business Person of the Year and other category winners to be announced at gala event in May

'The Irish Times' Business Person of the Month: Denis O’Sullivan

Gas Networks Ireland secured €100m in long-term funding

Dr Nora Khaldi founded Nuritas in 2014 and this funding makes it the first Irish biotech company to be backed by the EIB.

Nuritas founder named ‘Irish Times’ Business Person of the Month

Dr Nora Khaldi of Dublin biotechnology firm wins prestigious KPMG/Irish Times award

The Irish Times’ Business Person of the Month: Dr Elaine Sullivan

Life-sciences company recently acquired rights to breakthrough drug

‘The Irish Times’ Business Person of the Month: Fergal Leamy

Coillte chief oversaw sale of stake in four wind farms for €136m

Séamus Mulligan, chairman and chief executive of Adapt Pharma

Business person of the month: Séamus Mulligan, Adapt Pharma

Adapt agreed a $635m deal in August that will see it taken over by Emergen

‘The Irish Times’ Business Person of the Month: Tony Smurfit

Smurfit Kappa takeover of Dutch company illustrates determination to be growth leader

‘The Irish Times’ Business Person of the Month: Peter Jackson

Paddy Power Betfair has struck two major US deals in recent weeks

Eddie O’Connor has long been associated with renewable energy. The onetime chief executive of Bord na Móna founded Airtricity in 1997, selling it 10 years later to Scottish & Southern Energy and German power giant EON for €2 billion.

‘The Irish Times’ Business Person of the Month: Eddie O’Connor

Mainstream Renewable Power chairman oversaw sale of wind farm to French company for €600m

‘The Irish Times’ Business Person of the Month: David Walsh

CEO of Netwatch Group, which merged with three US companies and one UK company

‘We survived by losing money, which we saw as an investment and the right thing to do,’ Mark Fitzgerald on how estate agent Sherry Fitzgerald survived the recession. Photograph Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

‘We sold more new homes last weekend than we did in the whole of 2011’ - Mark FitzGerald

Co-founder of Sherry FitzGerald, and winner of The Irish Times Distinguished Leader in Business award, on recession, recovery, expansion and the future

Liam Kavanagh (right), managing director of The Irish Times presents the Irish Times Top 1000 Distinguished Leader in Business Award 2018 to Mark FitzGerald of Sherry FitzGerald. Photograph: Conor McCabe.

Mark FitzGerald named ‘Irish Times’ Top 1000 distinguished leader in business

FitzGerald is co-founder and chairman of estate agency Sherry FitzGerald

Ciaran Hancock, Irish Times business editor; Shaun Murphy, managing partner KPMG and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar congratulate Siobhán Talbot of Glanbia who won The Irish Times Business Person of the Year award. Photograph: Conor McCabe.

Siobhán Talbot named ‘Irish Times’ Business Person of the Year

Talbot given award for role in overseeing spin off spin off of Glanbia’s dairy operation

Shaun Murphy (right), managing partner at KPMG presents The Irish Times Company of the Year Award 2018 to Mark Cahalane, head of group corporate affairs at CRH.

CRH named company of the year at ‘Irish Times’ business awards

Company was on the deal path this year, agreeing to buy Ash Grove Cement for €2.8bn

Cathriona Hallahan, chair of the The Irish Times business awards judging panel and managing directorof Microsoft Ireland, presents the Chief Financial Officer of the Year Award to Mark Bourke of AIB Photograph: Conor McCabe

Mark Bourke named ‘Irish Times’ chief financial officer of the year

Bourke was a key player in AIB’s return to Dublin and London stock markets

Ciarán Hancock, The Irish Times business editor presents The Irish Times Deal of the year Award 2018 to Jarlath Quinn, group managing director of StatSport and Paul McKernan, chief customer and information officer. Photograph: Conor McCabe

Statsports win deal of the year award at ‘Irish Times’ business awards

Sports tech company scored €1.14bn deal with US soccer governing body this year

The judges for the Irish Times Business Awards, from left to right: Martin McVicar, managing director of Combilift; Margot Slattery, country president for Sodexo Ireland; Mark Ryan, a non-executive director; Cathriona Hallahan, managing director of Microsoft Ireland; Caroline Keeling, chief executive of Keelings; Shaun Murphy, managing partner of KPMG, and Dr John Hegarty, chairman of The Irish Times Trust

Judges gather as clock ticks down to Irish Times Business Awards

Winners selected in four categories, including Business Person of the Year

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