Daniel Begley, Chief Operations Officer
An economics gradute from UCD, Daniel has worked in Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand. He was with Hire All Party Hire when the company achieved the status of European Hire Company of the Year in 2002, and he is one of the founders of Teamhop Sports & Fitness, which developed “Fitframe”, a team training product, from concept to commercial product. Daniel has established and managed syndicate investment in foreign regions including Southern Africa and Eastern Europe.

Barre Fitzpatrick, Knowledge Management Officer
For 25 years, Barre has been working in the area of innovation with some of the world’s leading innovation companies and institutes. He has worked with Synectics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and with the University of Chicago Graduate Business School. He was involved with the UK Department of Trade and Industry's Innovation Unit, and his work with Rolls-Royce earned him an accolade from Sir John Rose, Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce, who claims that Barre made 'an indelible impression' on the company.

Frank Keane, Corporate Finance Officer
Frank has an honours degree in Business and Legal Studies (BBLS) from UCD, and a Masters of Accountancy (MAcc) from the Smurfit School of Business in UCD. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Qualified Financial Advisor (QFA). Before co-founding MKO Partners, which provides Private Client, Corporate Finance and Corporate Accounting Services, Frank headed Deloitte Ireland’s Learning and Development. Frank has written several books and study guides published by the Institute of Bankers in Ireland.

Dirk de Corte, International board member
Dirk was in international banking before he became the managing director of NTGent, one of the larger professional theatres in Belgium. He left arts to become Senior Associate to Executive Learning Partnership, an international and committed network of experienced executive development professionals. He is also associated to MenT where he is designing and facilitating executive programmes on leadership and change management. He combines these activities with his Associate Professorship at the University of Antwerp. He holds a number of board mandates in profit as well as not for profit companies, and is a frequent speaker on a variety of subjects (finance, the arts, entrepreneurship, management) at national and international forums.

Dirk was a freelance radio reporter for more than ten years for Belgian national radio, where he gave live commentary on soccer games.

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