Season 44
The Global Interview Season 44 featuring creatives, leaders, and thinkers.
“Work hard, plan hard, find time to reflect, and surround yourself with great and different people.”
Lisa-Nicole Dunne
Lisa-Nicole Dunne
Managing Director and Founder, Mantra Strategy
Lisa-Nicole Dunne is an advocate for social change, the SDGs and equality, with extensive experience across various sectors, including automotive (BMW), financial, education, international development, health research and professional services. She has helped raise more than €70 million for global, national and local issues and won Irish Professional fundraiser of the year in 2013 and was shortlisted for Global fundraiser of the year.
“Being a doctor with a national platform is both a privilege and a responsibility I take very seriously.”
Lipi Roy
Lipi Roy
Medical Director, Housing Works, Addiction Physician, Speaker, Media Personality
Dr Lipi Roy is an internal medicine and addiction medicine physician, keynote speaker, as well as a sought-after media medical commentator. Featured in Top Doctor Magazine, Dr Roy currently serves as Medical Director of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) Transitional Housing Sites at Housing Works in New York City. She also serves as a clinical assistant professor at NYU Langone Health and treats patients with opioid addiction at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction. Dr Roy's work spans academia, clinical medicine, homeless health, social and criminal justice, public speaking and media.
“Be patient, and believe that when one door closes, another opens. Try to land where you love doing what you do.”
Val Brown
Val Brown
CEO, Val Brown Group
Val Brown works with CEOs, CMOs, entrepreneurs and business owners to drive company growth through brand and commercial strategy. She began her career directing the global development of the Hard Rock Café brand and has gone on to advise a who's whom in entertainment and hospitality in the US and UK. Including Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame, MTV, The Elton John Aids Foundation, Liverpool's Cavern Club, Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, City Winery, and many more.
“I love seeing how people can be successful doing what they love and serving the people they can make an impact on.”
Maureen Edwards
Maureen Edwards
Founder, 8 Simple Steps
Maureen Edwards is an award-winning marketing, branding, and business strategist, recognized as a leader in simply building businesses that make more money, keep more money and outlast the competition. After inventing, patenting, and commercializing two pet products, she built her first company. After that, she built five more profitable companies and has worked with over a hundred other entrepreneurs to build or turn around theirs.
“Always do right by the brand, and in that way, you'll do right by the client.”
Niall Corcoran
Niall Corcoran
Managing and Brand Director, CI Studio
Having graduated in 1991 from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) with a Hons degree in Biochemistry and Applied Genetics (which feels like a lifetime ago and another person entirely). I moved into sales, working initially for an agent of Lexmark and ultimately becoming Country Manager for Lexmark Ireland in 1996. I helped co-found Creative Inc (now CI Studio) with the real founder Mel O'Rourke, also in 1996.
“Always be kind to people on the way up as they're the same ones you'll meet on the way down.”
Eileen Moloney
Eileen Moloney
Director of Marketing, Brightwater Group
I am the Marketing Director for Brightwater Group, Ireland's leading recruitment consultancy and have over 25 years' senior marketing experience in B2B and B2C. Having joined the Group in 2000, I head up the internal marketing function with specific responsibility for online presence, sponsorship, PR, events, marketing strategy and budgets.