Intercom founders Eoghan McCabe and Ciaran Lee were among 10 recipients of the 2022 Trinity College Dublin Alumni awards on Thursday evening.
McCabe, who recently returned to Intercom as CEO two years after stepping down, and Lee graduated from Trinity in the mid-2000s with degrees in computer science and engineering, respectively.
They founded Intercom in 2011, and the software company now has a workforce of 1,000 people. The Alumni Awards recognise Trinity graduates who have made important contributions in their field.
Awardees are selected by an Alumni Awards Committee made up of members of the academic community, the TCD Registrar and representatives from the Trinity Association & Trust and Provost’s Council.
Virgin Money UK CEO and former AIB CEO David Duffy was awarded for his career in banking and his work with homelessness charity Social Bite and Macmillan
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Emer Cooke, who led the European Medicines Agency during Covid-19; barrister, mediator and international arbiter Susan Ahern; and television presenter and Drowning in Plastic documentarian Liz Bonnin were also recognised.
Jack Kavanagh, who was paralysed by a spinal cord injury in 2020 before becoming a performance and resilience coach; filminess radiology pioneer and philanthropist Samuel Lam, and poet and playwright Paula Meehan were among the awardees too.
Finally, the late banker Declan Sheehan was recognised on the evening for his work in the 1980s and 1990s with AIDS charity ACT-UP New York as well as his general commitment to LGBT rights activism and helping others.
