The shortlist for the 2019 EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards has been announced, with 24 finalists selected from c.120 nominations to compete across three categories.
EMERGING CATEGORY
Mark Dowds of Trov
John Mullins of Amarenco Solar
Tom Cronin of Rye River Brewery
Mervyn O’Callaghan and Simon Murray of Provision Vehicle Cameras;
Sonia Deasy of Pestle & Mortar
Ian Nolan and Alex Kelly of Brightflag
Triona Mullane of Madme Technologies
James and Timothy McElroy of HouseMyDog.
INDUSTRY CATEGORY
Matt Ryan of Press Up Entertainment Group
Pat McDonagh of Supermac’s Holdings
Mark Whitaker of Johnson & Perrott Motor Group (pictured)
Patrick Derry of DRT (NI)
Peter and Una Kearns of The Institute of Education
Ashley McCulla of McCulla (Ireland) LTD
Laurence O’Kane of IMED Healthcare
Donnacha Hurley of Motor Mania
INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
Richard Kennedy of Devenish
Andrew Day of Keywords Studios
Lily Holmes of PB Machine Tech
Paul McKenna of Mac-Group
Philip Noone of Aalto Bio
Shane Evans of Scapinghub
Brian Leslie of Seaquest Systems
Lulu O’Sullivan of GiftsDirect.com/TheIrishStore.com.
The competition winners will be announced in October 2019.