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ave O’Reilly loves oil. Ð one of the few job options for Irish Dublin. He left for the Chevron plant in It is why he became a women of that era. The closest he came California soon after. Forty years later, chemical engineer. He to any kind of engineering was when as he is still with the company. He started doesn’t know how exact- a youngster he used to visit his uncle with Chevron Research as a process ly this love came about Ð who worked for the aluminum factory in engineer and, after stepping in as a man- Dhe wasn’t influenced by any American Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, on his way ager during a strike in 1973, a series of westerns featuring Texas wild-catters southwest to his mother’s family in positions with increasing responsibility that populated the fledgling Irish televi- Kerry on summer holidays. followed. He was named general manag- sion network RTE in the 60s. And he But from an early age O’Reilly want- er of Chevron’s refinery at El Segundo, didn’t get it from his father who worked ed to be an oilman, and he has lived his California, in 1986. In 1991 he was as a buyer in the men’s department at dream. elected a vice president of Chevron Arnotts store in Dublin, or his mother It was serendipitous that the first time Corp., and by 1994, he was president of who migrated from Co. Kerry to Dublin Chevron recruited in Ireland, O’Reilly Chevron Products Co., responsible for in the late 1930s to join the civil service was graduating from University College the company’s U.S. refining and market-

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Man born CEO in the United States. My mother grew up in Rathmore, He is one of the few, if not the only oil County Kerry, and ended up in Dublin executive that you will see on television Ð because she went into the civil service in or interviewed in Fortune magazine. The the late 30’s and stayed there until she THE HIGHEST- oil companies tend to be maligned in the married my father in 1945 at the end of press, and O’Reilly is committed to the war. He was from County Meath and RANKED informing the public of the situation from worked in Arnotts [department store] for his perspective. his whole career Ð 40 something years. IRISH-BORN Our interview took place in Chevron’s He was the manager and buyer for the headquarters near San Ramon, an area menswear section. CEO IN THE that’s pretty much all industrial park. Chevron Way leads to the low-lying office Was education something that buildings fronted by a huge fountain. Once your parents emphasized? U.S.,AND THE inside, the atmosphere is strictly corporate. Yes. They both knew the value of educa- I’m handed a Visitor Safety Information tion. And the education I received was LONGEST- leaflet and Map for Chevron Park, and I’m top notch. I went to Blackrock in Dublin, vetted by media relations man Lloyd and then from there to UCD [University REIGNING Avram who sits in on the interview and College Dublin]. The chemical engineer- gives me a three-minute warning when my ing department was really small. CEO OF AN OIL time is drawing to a close. Between all three years Ð second, third, I find O’Reilly to be by turns affable and fourth year Ð there were 40 students. and intimidating. One gets the impression So you get a lot of close attention in an COMPANY, that he doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and environment like that. I’m no expert on the oil business. He is CHEVRON’S most animated and relaxed when talking Was it a normal thing for about Ireland Ð he has a brother, two sis- Chevron to recruit in Ireland? DAVE O’REILLY ters and extended family there and he I don’t think they had ever done that gets back often. He also brightens when before. They were interviewing in the he’s talking about Chevron’s community- U.K., so they decided they would include TALKS TO building schemes. Dublin on the interview schedule. So it I was working my nerve up to ask him was not a routine thing at all. But it was a PATRICIA HARTY about a lawsuit, currently in the courts in happy coincidence. [Chuckles]. I would- San Francisco, over Chevron’s response n’t be here, I would be somewhere else. to a 1998 protest at its Nigerian subsi-

COURTESY CHEVRON bary’s off-shore platform, when I got that Chemical engineering at that three-minute warning. Instead we talked time was also a bit outside the about the award that O’Reilly would norm for an Irish student. receive on the morrow Ð the Woodrow There were very few of us. Most engi- Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, neering students were in civil, mechani- which is given to those executives who cal, and electrical. But I wanted to be in “by their examples and their business the oil industry. practices, have shown a deep concern for ing operations. In 1998 O’Reilly was the common good beyond the bottom Again, unusual. Had you been named a vice chairman of the board of line.” watching American westerns Chevron Corp., and in 2002, as CEO he of Texas oilmen on Irish TV? oversaw the Chevron/Texaco merger. In Do you go back to [Laughs] No, no, no. I just got interested fact, he received the Petroleum Executive Ireland often? and chemical engineering was a path to of the Year Award for 2004 Ð chosen by A couple times a year. I have a brother that. I also had an offer from G.E. his peers in the industry “for his strong and two sisters, nephews, cousins, uncles, [General Electric] but I was much more leadership of Chevron during and after its aunts Ð still a lot of relatives there. So interested in oil, and the oil business from merger with Texaco and the company’s we’re usually there a couple times a year. a business, technical and geopolitical robust financial and operational perform- Mostly it’s to visit the Dublin area. My standpoint Ð all three of them. The oil ance.” parents’ generation grew up in different industry is right at the intersection of O’Reilly is the longest-reigning CEO parts of Ireland, but they were part of the those three things. of an oil company, and, to the best of my labor migration from the rural parts of There were no jobs, or very few, for knowledge, the highest-ranking Irish- Ireland to Dublin. chemical engineers in Ireland in 1968. So

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I came to work for Chevron Ð in the research part of the company in Richmond, California.

What was that like? It was a really disruptive time. Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated. You had riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. There were a lot of protests and disrup- tions. In Berkeley there was tear gas, up and down University Avenue. It was a very tumultuous time, but there was plen- ty of work to do. I was in Richmond at a research plant, which is still there right next to a refinery. There were three of us that came from UCD at the time. We kind of hung around together, but eventually we went our own way. They went back to Ireland.

And you met a nice American girl? Yes. I married her in 1970 and we’re still married. We have two daughters, two sons-in-law and two granddaughters.

How does the recent oil crisis compare to the crisis in 1973 and the oil embargo? That was a lot worse. When you don’t have oil, and you have lines at gas sta- tions as you had in ’73 to ’75 – when Dave O’Reilly there’s actually a cutoff in supply for gets his point geopolitical reasons, and people have to across to an associate at the line up on alternate days, that’s a very, Chevron plant in very distressing thing. But since ’79, we Kazakhstan. haven’t had an incident like that. And the reason we haven’t had it is we have had an auto-regulated market. It’s an open market so that the market can respond CHEVRON COURTESY through the price making. And sometimes that means we pay more, but it regulates crude oil prices, and all sorts of com- I think you’re the only chief the demand, and sometimes it means we modities, not just oil. Steel, iron ore, corn, of an oil company that’s been pay less. When that supply comes to com- you name it. All those things went up. on Charlie Rose. pensate for the high price, it attracts sup- That’s a global inflation push. Charlie Rose and Larry King. The reason ply, and you get the benefits of the mar- And to blame us for something like I go on shows like that is to help with ketplace working. that, to vilify us for high prices that we energy literacy, because a lot of people So the marketplace has been a much had no control over, doesn’t seem fair. don’t understand where it [energy] comes better arbitrator of supply than a regulato- And particularly when we all know that from, how much has been used, where the ry system that was very disruptive — that commodities go through a cycle and you vulnerabilities are, what the opportunities caused lines to be created in ’73 and again don’t hear anybody sympathizing when are, and so you’ve got to talk to the pub- in ’79. we’re at the low end of the cycle, and we lic. Otherwise, nobody knows. And I think have been in the past and we will be in the it’s very important that you communicate. Do you think the oil future. companies get a bad rap? There will be times when the price of a So do you see the incoming I think that our leaders, our political lead- commodity goes low, so you have a cycli- administration helping? ers, tend to resort to rhetoric when gaso- cal business, and ups and downs. I think both candidates were short on line prices get high like they did a few Gasoline prices fluctuate. But when you energy policy, for different reasons. I months ago because of certain events that go to buy, say, a bar of soap, or a candy think the McCain campaign, and I say are outside the control of the industry. bar in a store, it doesn’t fluctuate. But it campaign because it’s hard to know what You know, we had a global run-up in very slowly goes steadily up every year. the candidates themselves actually

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thought. But the McCain campaign, I The second message is energy supply. a lot more opportunity today than there think, underestimated the power of ener- And our message isn’t just about oil and has been for a long time. You know, I hear gy efficiency and conservation and was gas. Obviously, oil and gas are included, a lot about this. very supply oriented. but it’s about oil, gas, nuclear, coal, wind, The Obama campaign on the other hand you know, solar and other renewables Ð all I guess the public is confused. was very energy efficiency oriented. They of them. And the importance of having a There’s the perception that were very short on the supply side. In my balanced approach to energy supply. So the war in Iraq is about oil. view, they’re both wrong. You need both. it’s working on both. Those will be the key Yeah, and in those countries that you’re You need to work on energy efficiency, messages to the incoming administration. talking about, it is primarily the govern- and conservation, and use energy wisely. ments that run the oil industry. Where You know, at a low, we’re using 120,000 What is Chevron doing we’re operating, it’s not. The places we gallons of oil a second. But we also have to in terms of investing in operate have been growing and are places find it and supply it. We still need it. We alternative energy? that truly are open. And some of them still need lights, we still need electricity, We’re the biggest renewable energy weren’t even available to us before. you still need to drive your car, there are a producer of any major oil company Ð geo- Central Asia was all part of the former lot of things we need to do. So I think both thermal in the Philippines and Indonesia. Soviet Union. That’s open now. We’re [candidates] were short in my view. We’re the biggest geothermal producer in operating in Venezuela. What will we get out of a new adminis- the world. It’s using hot steam from vol- tration? I don’t know. canic deposits. Either you inject water I thought Venezuela had down and make steam out of it, or you now nationalized its oil. Have you ever been invited actually find pockets of steam. Produce it No. They did not nationalize it. A lot of to talk to the people who set through a well, like you would oil, and use people think that, but that’s not the case. the policies? the steam to drive and generate electricity. There are still private investors in Well, no, . . . but what we do with incom- You need to have a kind of volcanic rock. Venezuela. We’ve found enormous vast ing administrations is, we send a letter. resources in Australia. We’re big in We send it to all the committees, both Is it more difficult as more and Thailand, and all of the southern part of sides of the aisle, Democrats, more countries are nationaliz- Asia. We’re expanding in China. I was Republicans, the whole lot. And we’ll do ing their oil resources? just there last week. We’re developing a that again. And then, if they want to talk No, no. I think there’s that perception, but big gas field in Central China Ð that was- about it, we’re there to talk about it. the reality is, there’s more opportunity n’t available even five years ago. today than there has been for most of my So this idea that somehow the opportu- And your message is? career in the oil industry, because for my nities are less than they were is not right. One Ð work on energy efficiency. It takes first 15 years Ð from the late sixties to the It’s looking through the wrong end of the leadership and let’s make sure we don’t middle part of the eighties Ð most of telescope. lose sight of the fact that we have to be a everything we were involved in was more energy efficient nation. Congress nationalized. We lost it. It was taken What about the fact that took some steps last year to improve the away. And we had to go find oil and gas our domestic oil production energy efficiency of cars, vehicles, and in places that were not nationalized. What is down? appliances over the next decade. And it’s happened in the last 15 or 20 years is, Now that’s a problem. U.S. oil produc- very important that that continues. So, most of the areas that were nationalized, tion, over the last 20 years, has dropped energy efficiency is the first message. many of them have opened up. So there’s by about four million barrels a day. So we’ve gone from about nine million bar- rels a day of production to five. In the meantime, our consumption has gone up by four million barrels a day. So we’re consuming about 18 or 19, close to 20 million barrels a day. We’re only produc- ing five. We’re importing the rest. And one of the reasons for it is a lot of the areas that we would like to look for it are off limits. So, yes, that is a valid point that you’re making. That’s reality. And, we’re becoming more dependent on oil imports and it’s not a good policy.

Part of the election debate was about opening Alaska to exploration. Alaska, the off-shore, and other on-shore areas where access is limited Ð 85 percent COURTESY: DAVE O’REILLY COURTESY: DAVE O'Reilly received an honorary science degree from University College Dublin in 2002. He is Continued on page 110 pictured here with Art Cosgrove, then President of UCD (left), and Prof. John Kelly (right).

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Irish America’s Annual

100BUSINESS

The Business 100 is a celebration of Irish-American corporate success, and this year is no exception. The executives profiled in the following pages represent some of the most powerful corporations in the world. All of our Business 100 share one thing in common, pride in their Irish heritage.The accomplishments of the men and women on our list are immense, and it is an honor for this magazine to highlight their achievement and success. We thank all of those who took the time to fill out their personal biographical forms and share glimpses of what being Irish means to them. Congratulations to all our honorees.

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Business100 Michael Beckerich Cathleen Black Tim Brosnan Patrick Burns York Analytical Hearst Magazines MLB Anheuser-Busch Laboratories, Inc. As President of Hearst As Executive Vice President, As the director of Anheuser- Michael P. Beckerich owns Magazines, one of the world’s Business and CEO of Major Busch’s Bud.TV/Sports and manages a diverse opera- largest publishers of magazines, League Baseball Enterprises, Entertainment Marketing, tion of investments that Cathleen Black has four decades Inc., Tim Brosnan oversees all Patrick Burns works on identi- include an environmental lab- of experience in the media busi- domestic and business functions fying opportunities for product oratory (York Analytical ness. Cosmopolitan, Esquire, of Major League Baseball’s placement on cable and network Laboratories, Inc.), which Good Office of the Commissioner, TV for the services greater NY; The Housekeeping, including licensing, sponsor- Anheuser-Busch Classics of Golf, for which he Harper's ship, domestic and international brands. publishes golf books of histor- Bazaar, Marie broadcasting, special events and Patrick, a ical and literary significance; Claire, and MLB Productions. Brosnan native of St. and real estate. He began his Oprah’s O are joined the Office of the Louis, Missouri, career with Coopers & among the 19 Commissioner in 1991 and was earned a BS in Lybrand and later worked as a titles she man- quickly promoted to Chief Business financial officer with signifi- ages, and she is in charge of Operating Officer of Major Administration from the cant expertise in SEC and almost 200 international edi- League Baseball International. University of Evansville. He alternate energy matters. tions of those magazines in In his current position he began his career with Merchants Beckerich is a member of more than 100 countries. Black oversees the multi-billion-dollar Bank in Deposit Products Ireland’s own Royal Dublin, began her career selling small enterprise that baseball advertis- Administration, and moved to and served as president of ads for Holiday magazine and in ing and promotion has become. Anheuser-Busch Inc in 1988. historic Saint Andrew’s Golf 1979 she became the first Brosnan foresees the day when His first job with Anheuser Club in New York. He serves woman publisher of a weekly countries including Ireland will was as a Wholesaler Inventory on the Legal consumer magazine: New York. play in the World Baseball Coordinator, but he soon rose Board of For eight years she made a Classic, an equivalent to soc- through the ranks occupying a Trustees of name for herself as President cer’s World Cup. number of positions over the Iona College (a and then publisher of USA A second- generation Irish- years, including Sports 1972 graduate), Today. In 1991 she became American whose Marketing Manager, the N.A. Board President and CEO of the grandparents International Sports Marketing for University Newspaper Association of came from coun- Manager, Geographic College America, before joining Hearst. ties Kerry and Marketing Manager, Senior Dublin’s Smurfit School of She serves as a member of the Sligo, Brosnan Sports Marketing Manager and Business, and the PNC Bank boards of IBM and the Coca- has visited Director. Operations Board in Cola Company, and is a member Ireland many A third-generation Irish- Greenwich, CT. His mother of the Council on Foreign times and even American with roots in County Jean, an O’Conner from Relations. A third-generation taken in a game in Dublin where Carlow, Patrick says of his Irish County Sligo, first set foot in Irish-American, Black is mar- Peter O’Malley, former chairman heritage: “The Dooleys and America as an 18-year-old in ried and has two children. of the Dodgers, gifted a baseball Burnses have handed down val- 1948. Beckerich and his wife, Her book Basic Black, on field. Tim resides in Westchester ues that have allowed me to look Maryann, have raised three how she has achieved both per- County with his wife, Claire at each day with a little curiosity children to adulthood. sonal and professional fulfill- O’Brien, and their three children, that behind every situation you ment, is a New York Times best- Helen, Kevin and Charlotte. can find some humor.” seller.

Patrick Byrne Albert Carey Overstock.com Frito-Lay Inc. Patrick Michael Byrne is chairman and CEO of Albert (Al) P. Carey has been President and Chief Overstock.com, Inc., a Utah-based Internet retailer Executive Officer of Frito-Lay North America, Inc. that has been publicly traded since 2002. Under since 2006. Carey is a highly experienced, 25-year vet- Byrne’s leadership the company’s annual revenue has eran of PepsiCo with nearly 20 years at Frito Lay North gone from $1.8 million in 1999 to $760.2 million in 2007. In 2001, America. He most recently served as the President of PepsiCo Sales Byrne began Worldstock.com, Overstock.com’s socially responsible since February 2003 and Chief Customer Officer. PepsiCo has a sub- store for products handcrafted by artisans from developing nations and sidiary in Cork. rural areas of the USA. To date, more than $30 million has been Carey is a member of the Board of Trustees at the University of returned to Worldstock’s artisan suppliers. Maryland, where he earned both a bachelor’s degree and an honorary Byrne received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Asian studies M.B.A. Carey is also on the Board of Directors of Home Depot, Inc. from Dartmouth College, a master’s in philosophy from Cambridge and serves on the Advisory Council of Portland State University's Food University as a Marshall Scholar, and a doctorate in philosophy from Industry Leadership Program. He has been honored with a Leadership Stanford University. Byrne serves as co-chair of the Milton & Rose Award from Lehman College in the Bronx, New York. Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. He has also founded 19 A first-generation Irish-American whose mother’s roots are in schools internationally that currently educate more than 6,000 students. Armagh, Carey is married with four children. He says that his “Bronx After surviving cancer, Byrne cycled across the country four times. Irish Catholic heritage has prepared [him] to work hard, serve others His last ride, in 2000, helped increase awareness and raise record-break- and be grateful.” ing funds for cancer research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Byrne is a fifth-generation Irish-American with roots in Cork and Wexford.

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[the list] Charles Carey Michael Carpenter CME Group, Inc. KPMG LLP Charles P. Carey is Vice Chairman of CME Group, Mike Carpenter serves as an area-managing partner for the company that was created when the Chicago KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm that is the Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile U.S. member firm of KPMG International. Based in Exchange merged in July 2007. Atlanta, he is responsible for managing the firm's advi- In his capacity as Chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, a posi- sory business in the Southeast region. Carpenter joined KPMG in 1979, tion he was appointed to in 2003, Carey and his friend Terry Duffy, and has since served several of the firm’s global clients and financial Chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, were the key players audit teams. behind the historic merger. Carpenter is a fourth-generation Irish-American. His mother’s side of After graduating from Western Illinois, he took a union job installing the family bears the surname Hogan and emigrated from Tipperary to electrical conduit in the downtown tunnels that would become the site New York City, eventually settling in Ticonderoga, N.Y. Carpenter's of the Great Chicago Flood of 1992 Ð not the typical route for someone great-grandfather Francis McCormick fought in the Irish New York aspiring to become chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade. regiment in the Civil War. Carpenter received a Bachelor of Science Carey is a third-generation Irish-American, whose great-grandfather degree in accounting from Louisiana State University and is a Certified Simon Carey, a blacksmith, came to Chicago from County Clare. It Public Accountant in the states of Louisiana and Georgia. He has was there he met and married Mary O’Brien from Roscommon. On his served on the board of directors for the Louisiana American Red Cross mother’s side, Carey traces his roots to County Monaghan. and Baton Rouge Youth, Inc., which provides housing to at-risk youth. Carpenter lives in Atlanta with his wife Julie and their four children, Paige, Jack, Kevin and Scott.

Kieran Claffey Jim Clerkin Clodagh Tom Codd PricewaterhouseCoopers Moët Hennessy USA Clodagh Design PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Jim Clerkin has over 30 years of Since leaving Ireland as a LLP Kieran Claffey is a partner at experience in the beer, wine and young woman and dropping her Tom Codd is North Texas Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP spirits industry. He began his last name, Clodagh has estab- Market Managing Partner for (PwC), a member firm of career in Ireland where he rose lished herself as a designer of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He PricewaterhouseCoopers through the ranks at Guinness in luxury products and experiential has spent his entire career in International Limited. After a variety of roles to Executive environments. She oversees serving manufacturing and dis- joining PwC in 1985, Claffey Sales Director three distinct companies: tribution compa- spent over ten years in the assur- and became a Clodagh Signature, her own nies, including ance practice primarily servic- member of the product design and licensing public and pri- ing multinational clients. He board of direc- company; Clodagh Collection, vate equity- then transferred to the firm’s tors. an on-premises showroom high- owned compa- national office to focus on major Earlier this lighting Clodagh-designed prod- nies ranging in litigation and regulatory related year Clerkin ucts and a curated collection of size from multi- issues. He is PwC’s representa- was recruited by home furnishings and acces- location compa- tive on two professional com- Moët Hennessy, the wine, cham- sories from all over the world; nies to multinational corpora- mittees of the American Institute pagne and spirits division of and Clodagh Design, her archi- tions. of Certified Public Accountants: LVMH, to take on a new role as tectural and interior design prac- Codd is a Director of the the Professional Issues Task Chief Operating Officer of Moët tice which works on both com- American Ireland Fund, a mem- Force and the Technical Hennessy USA with responsibil- mercial and residential design. ber of the North American Standards Committee. ity for global brands such as In 2008, Clodagh celebrates her Advisory Board of the UCD Claffey was a founding mem- Hennessy cognac, Moët & 25th anniversary as a designer in Michael Smurfit Graduate ber and director of the Ireland Chandon Champagne, Dom New York. Her work has been Business School and a member Chamber of Perignon, Veuve Clicquot recognized with numerous of the Friendly Sons of Saint Commerce in Champagne, Grand Marnier and awards including Architectural Patrick. He earned a B. Sc. in the United Belvedere vodka. Digest’s Top 100 Interior Management from Purdue States and a Clerkin, who was born in Designers, the Interior Design University. director of the Rostrevor in County Down, has Hall of Fame, Codd is a second-generation European- been involved with a number of and induction Irish-American whose paternal American charities including Co- into the presti- grandparents were born in coun- Chamber of Operation Ireland where he gious Hospitality ties Carlow and Sligo. On his Commerce. He is currently the served as chairman of Co-Op Design Platinum Irish heritage he remarks, “I national treasurer and board Ireland USA for five years and Circle. An in- attribute my fundamental values member of the Ireland-U.S. is still an active board member. demand inspira- of work ethic, loyalty, fortitude, Council of Commerce & He is the proud father of four tional speaker, humor and grace in large part to Industry. Born in Dublin, children and resides in Westport, Clodagh just completed her sec- my ancestry. Also, Irish her- Claffey received his BA from Connecticut with his wife Jenny ond book, Your Home Your itage enables a connection to an University College Dublin. He and their youngest son Luke. Sanctuary, released by Rizzoli in Irish community that stretches is also a chartered accountant October. Her first book, Total around and across the globe.” and a CPA. He lives in Design, is now in its third print- He is married and has four chil- Manhattan with his wife ing. She lives in New York City dren. Michelle and three sons, Ryan, and is married to international CJ and Steven. photographer Daniel Aubry.

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Keeping an Eye Out for Fellow Citizens By Declan O’Kelly

t’s possible to see the church in there are a lot of other things that you can of need for good mentors,” says Southie that Jim Connolly do. I have achieved a lot, and a lot of Connolly. “I’m pretty passionate about attended as a kid from his office. good things have happened to me, and I that. I really feel that for a kid from “Its not that far really,” says the have worked very hard to appreciate South Boston like I was, whose parents President of Citizens Financial them.” couldn’t afford a private education, to Group modestly from the 38th- Connolly, whose mother and sister still have access to a good public education is floor office on State Street. live in South Boston, is proud of where very important. While I was blessed to But the scene from the height and he came from. He went to Boston Latin have terrific parents who were great role Iheart of the financial district in down- School and today acts as a director on the models, I also recognize that there are town Boston, with its panoramic view of Boston Latin School Association. people who do not have that, and having the city in its splendor on a beautifully Knowing well the value of a good role someone to guide them early in their life sunny fall afternoon, is a world away model during one’s formative years Ð he is very important to me.” from where he and his family grew up. cites the positive influence of his high Connolly was a football player both in It may also be beyond the wildest school football coach Paul Costello, a high school and in college. A defensive dreams of where Connolly’s grandfather clean-living guy who helped players end, Connolly was recruited by Harvard, Michael thought his grand- and though he didn’t break son would end up. Orphaned into the team, was on the ros- at 12 and on a boat at 17, the ter during the duration of his teenager left Galway in 1918 studies at the Ivy League to make a better life in school. A few years after America. graduating he met a girl from But nothing comes easy, Long Island studying at and the Galweigan would Northeastern University in work on the railroads as a Boston. Jim and Maureen laborer for over forty years. have been married 21 years He married, started a family, and have two sons, James and one of his sons was Michael (15) and Colin James Connolly, Jim’s Patrick (12). father. A sheet metal worker Not only a football man, by trade, work was some- Connolly is also a Red Sox times hard to come by. fan, and the disappointment Eventually, he found a job of his team not winning the with the Massachusetts Bay AL pennant this fall was tem- Transportation Authority and pered by the fact that he got worked there for close to 25 to attend the World Series in a years. Former Maine Senator and Boston AIF honoree George Mitchell semi-official capacity, since Something that gives Jim and Jim Connolly, President of Citizens Financial Group, at Citizens in 2003 Citizens agreed to a Connolly pause for thought, headquarters in Boston. 25-year naming rights deal in these of all times, are the for the Phillies field: Citizens words of his grandfather on his deathbed. both on and off the field Ð he is also the Park, which opened in April 2004. Still, “As my grandfather was dying, he said chair of a not-for-profit organization he maintains that a Red Sox/Phillies he could die in peace safe in the knowl- called MA Mentoring Partnership. World Series would have been great for edge that his son had a full-time job with “It is a group that focuses and pro- business as Red Sox Nation makes up a a pension and could take care of his fam- motes mentorship here in Massachusetts. big part of the bank’s customer base! ily. It tries to create an environment for After college, Connolly first worked at “When you keep that perspective, mentees to find mentors as there is a lot a computer distribution firm and then

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combed the country for three Connolly to give back to the years with a small manage- community, both in a profes- ment consulting company sional and personal capacity, before getting into banking. is something that burns A series of high-level execu- strong in him. tive positions with Fleet and “Most banks, not just Bank of America led to him Citizens, are involved in joining Citizens as Vice community activities. Part of Chairman of the Commercial it is good business for us Markets Group in 2005. In because we are a reflection of March of this year, he was the community. We are a named President of Citizens bank, so we want to make Financial Group. sure that the community we The group is the ninth- operate in is dong well. It’s largest bank in the country, not just a nice thing to do Ð it employs 23,500 people and is a business thing,” he says. has revenue of over 6.4 bil- In a first-of-its kind initia- lion dollars. Though the dire tive, Citizens has just intro- situation facing the banking duced Green$ense, where Jim Connolly industry has been well docu- they actually pay their cus- mented, Citizens has shown tomers to use less paper, giv- its resilience. As their ing them ten cents every time spokesman Mike Jones told a paperless payment is made. the Boston Globe on October Customers can even get a 8, “We are in a position of Green$ense debit card made strength. We’ve hired person- of recycled plastic. One nel and we are lending.” year’s participation in the Connolly gives the air of a program can save up to 171 man who keeps his eye on the pounds of greenhouse gases bigger picture. “There are and 6.6 pounds of paper. many hardships I have Being prominent and endured growing up that give active in the community PHOTOS COURTESY CITIZENS BANK me perspective on any eco- means that Citizens Bank nomic hardship or a market downturn,” Mitchell was honored for his contribu- must have its own house in order first, says the 48-year-old, who feels that his tion to peace in Northern Ireland. and that is something Connolly is acute- customers will really get to see the bene- Delighted to accept the Chair, Connolly ly aware of. fits of being members of Citizens now. did so on condition that some of the “If you were to read the headlines “We are a very healthy bank, so I think money earned would stay in Boston. about any bank or any company that they feel good about us. I think that we “We are helping three charities here, the actually got into trouble, they are not are the type of bank that has been Irish Emigration Center, the UMass going to be financially strong enough in focused on service and on the customer Boston peace and reconciliation program the community and other places. One of experience. I think that in this type of run by Padraig O’Malley – who took the the personal responsibilities I feel as environment we shine.” peace and reconciliation program that President of the company is that we con- This November, Connolly chaired the was in Northern Ireland and used it in tinue to do well, so that we can in turn do Boston American Ireland Fund dinner, Iraq Ð and a campaign for Catholic good, and that is something we focus a

where former Maine Senator George Schools in Dorchester.” The desire in lot here at Citizens.” IA

“As my grandfather was dying, he said he could die in peace safe in the knowledge that his son had a full-time job with a pension and could take care of his family.”

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Business100 Deirdre Connelly Kevin Connelly Christopher Connor William Coughran Jr. Lilly USA Spencer Stuart Sherwin-Williams Google Deirdre Connelly has been As chairman of Spencer Stuart, Christopher M. Connor has William Coughran joined President of Lilly USA since one of the world's leading exec- spent most of his professional Google, Inc. in 2003 serving as June 2005. In the fall of 2006, utive search consulting firms, career with The Sherwin- Senior Vice President of and again this year, she was rec- Kevin Connelly has both client- Williams Company, of which he Engineering. At Google, he leads ognized by Fortune magazine as facing responsibilities and a is now Chairman, President and the broad systems infrastructure one of the 50 most powerful firm leadership role. He is the CEO. group underlying Google’s prod- women in business. She was elected repre- Starting in 1983 as Director ucts and services. also included on Fortune’s sentative of the of Advertising for the Paint Before joining “Young and Powerful” list. partners, chairs Stores Group, Connor was pro- Google, Connelly joined Lilly in 1984 as the board and moted the next year to Vice Coughran co- a sales representative and partners' meet- President Ð Merchandising. A founded and worked her way up the ranks. ings and is string of promotions followed served as CEO Before assuming the role of responsible for until, in 1997, Connor was and in other president, Connelly was senior providing strate- named President of the Paint executive roles vice president of Human gic perspective to the firm's Stores Group. at Entrisphere in Resources. In 2008, she was business and finances. He served in that capacity Silicon Valley. appointed to the President’s Prior to becoming chairman, until he was promoted to Chief Coughran holds a B.S. and an Commission on White House Connelly managed the firm’s Executive Officer. Connor M.S. in Mathematics from Fellowships. A native of San business in the United States, serves on several boards, includ- Caltech University, and a Ph.D. Juan, Puerto Rico, Connelly Japan, Canada, and Mexico and ing the Board of Directors of in Computer Science from earned a bachelor’s degree in had global oversight for the National City Corporation and Stanford. In the past he has economics and Industrial and Financial Eaton Corporation, the Board of served as an adjunct professor at marketing from Services Practices. Connelly the National Association of Stanford, The ETH Zurich, and Lycoming serves on the board of the Manufacturers and the Rock and Duke University. He serves on College in Children’s Memorial Medical Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. the Board of Directors for Pennsylvania in Center of Chicago and is a He is a trustee of University nSolutions Inc and Clearwell 1983. She grad- member of the Economic Club Hospitals of Systems Inc. He is also the uated from of Chicago and the Executives Cleveland and a author of more than 50 publica- Harvard Club of Chicago. member of sev- tions and has served on several University’s Connelly earned an M.B.A. in eral other civic conference boards, and techni- Advanced Management 1979 from the Graduate School and economic cal advisory committees. Program in 2000. Born to an of Business at the University of boards in Coughran resides in Irish father and Puerto Rican Chicago and received a B.A. Cleveland, California with his wife. A mother, Connelly is one of nine degree from Marquette where he fourth-generation Irish- children, and upon hearing that University in 1975. resides. Connor, who is married American, he connects to his she would be in the Business A second-generation Irish with three children, received a heritage through his travels. “I 100 said her “father would be American on his mother’s side Bachelor’s degree in Sociology have always been drawn to the smiling from heaven.” and fourth-generation on his from Ohio State University. He liveliness of the Irish people and father’s, he traces his maternal is a fourth-generation Irish- their arts when visiting the Irish roots to Cork and Kerry. American with roots in County Emerald Isle,” he told Irish His father’s ancestry lies in Roscommon. America. Google’s European Galway and Mayo. Connelly is headquarters is based in Dublin. married with two daughters. Patricia Cunningham John Donahoe Continental Airlines eBay Inc. Patricia A. Cunningham is the Manager of John Donahoe is the President and CEO of eBay Inc., Transatlantic Leisure Sales for Continental Airlines, and has global responsibility for growing each of the the fourth largest airline in the United States. company’s business units, which include eBay Cunningham oversees leisure sales for 30 destinations Marketplace, PayPal and Skype. Prior to his position in Europe, Israel and Greece, including sales to Belfast, Dublin and as President and CEO of eBay Inc., Donahoe was President of eBay Shannon. Cunningham serves on the Board of the Ireland - U. S. Marketplace and during his three years there, doubled its revenues and Council. She was named to Irish America’s Business 100 list in 2007, profits. and won a 2007 Chairman’s Award at Continental for her outstanding Donahoe was Worldwide Managing Director of Bain & Company, a sales achievements. She started her airline carrier at Varig Brazilian global consulting firm, for 23 years prior to joining eBay. Airline. She then became the Director of Airline Sales for Virgin Donahoe received a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and Atlantic Airways, before going to Continental Airlines in 1997. an M.B.A from Stanford Business School. Cunningham is past President of the Airline Sales Manager He is an active alumnus of both schools, serving on the Board of Association in New York City. She was the first female President of Trustees of Dartmouth and the Advisory Board at Stanford Business SKAL in New Jersey. Cunningham is second-generation Irish-American School, as well as serving on eBay Inc.’s Board of Directors. with roots in Roscommon on her father’s side. Of her Irish heritage she A fifth-generation Irish-American, Donahoe is very interested in his says, “My Irish heritage has been a source of immense pride, and has Irish ancestry. His family hails from Tipperary. Timothy Donahoe, his provided me with strong work ethics and a commitment to hard work in great-great-grandfather on his father’s side, came to the U.S in the mid- both my professional and personal career.” She resides in Hillsborough, 1800s. He is married to Eileen Chamberlain and they have four children. New Jersey.

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Business100 Gene Donnelly Craig Donohue John Dooner Jr. Michael Dowling PricewaterhouseCoopers CME Group Inc. McCann Worldgroup North Shore-LIJ LLP Craig S. Donohue has served as As Chairman and Chief Health Systems Gene Donnelly is the Business Chief Executive Officer and a Executive Officer of McCann Michael Dowling is president Development Leader for the US Director of the Board of CME Worldgroup, a company he and CEO of North Shore-LIJ Firm. In this role, he is respon- Group since July 2007. formed in 1997, John Dooner Health Systems. He joined the sible for embedding a sustain- Prior to his current position, heads one of the world’s largest organization in 1995 as senior able growth culture to make Donohue served as CEO of and fastest-growing marketing vice president of hospital serv- PwC more successful in gaining CME Holdings communications organizations, ices. In 1997 he strategic market share. Before and CME since with operations in over 30 coun- became execu- that, he spent three years as January 2004. tries . Built on the foundation of tive vice presi- Global Managing Partner, Since his McCann Erickson, the leading dent and chief Advisory and Tax and a member appointment as global advertising agency net- operating offi- of PwC's five-person Global CEO in 2004, work, today six of the seven mar- cer, and oversaw Management Team. Donohue has set keting communications compa- development, From 2001 to 2005, Donnelly CME’s vision nies comprising Worldgroup are operations, and served as Vice Chairman- and developed growth strategies global leaders in their categories, planning while North Shore and Operations for the US Firm and to expand the company’s core a remarkable achievement given LIJ merged. was a member of the US business lines and global distri- that five of the companies did Before joining North Shore, Leadership Team. In addition to bution. He was a key player in not exist before 1997. Moreover Dowling served in New York his management responsibilities, the merger, this past July, of the Worldgroup’s offering of seam- government for 12 years, Donnelly was Leader of the Chicago Board of Trade and the lessly effective communications including seven as chief advisor Transaction Services Practice for Chicago Mercantile Exchange. programs ideally positions it for to Governor Mario Cuomo. He the US Firm. Under his leader- After receiving a BA from the future. Vision, energy, consis- was commissioner of New York ship, Drake University in 1983, tent delivery of strategic solu- State Department of Social Transaction Donohue earned a Juris Doctor tions and a persistent dedication Services from 1993-1994. He Services greatly from John Marshall Law School to growing Worldgroup’s busi- also was a professor of social expanded its in 1987, a Master of Laws ness by building its clients’ busi- policy and an assistant dean of client base and degree in Financial Services nesses have char- the Fordham University substantially Regulation from IIT Chicago- acterized Graduate School of Social increased its Kent College in 1989, and a Dooner’s 35-year Services. profitability. Master of Management degree career with Dowling came to New York Donnelly is married 29 years from Northwestern University McCann and its City from Limerick looking for with three sons and one grand- in 1995. parent company, a job at age 17 and maintains daughter. He is a summa cum Donohue, who is Chairman of The Interpublic close ties to Ireland. He serves laude graduate of St. Francis the Board of the National Group. Dooner, on the board of the Smurfit College in Brooklyn, New York. Council on Economic Education who was born in New York, School of Business at A fourth-generation Irish- (NCEE), a nonprofit organiza- earned his B.A. from St. Thomas University College Dublin, and American with ancestors from tion, is a third-generation Irish- Villanova University, and traces on numerous medical and chari- Donegal, Donnelly says that as American with roots in County his Irish roots to his grandparents table boards. He is married with an Irishman, “I am a beneficiary Cork. He lives in Northbrook, from County Clare. He and his two children. of a tradition of self-reliance, Illinois with his wife and their wife reside in Westchester, New perseverance and the kindness of three children. York. many.”

Patrick Dowling Terrence Duffy Tygris Commercial Finance Group CME Group Inc. Patrick Henry Dowling is the Senior Managing The honorable Terrence A. Duffy has served as Executive Director and leader of Tygris Commercial Finance Chairman of the Board of CME Group since July 2007. Group’s Aerospace & Defense Finance business. Prior Before that, he served as Chairman of the Board of CME to joining Tygris, he was Managing Director and and CME Holdings since April 2002 and Executive General Manager of CIT Leveraged Finance Ð Transportation where he Chairman since October of 2006. A member of the Exchange since 1981 was responsible for the global reach of the group by providing solu- and a board member since 1995, Duffy was a key player in the merger of tions for manufacturers, suppliers and service providers seeking debt, The Chicago Board of Trade and The Chicago Mercantile Exchange. In leasing and structured financings. Dowling was previously Managing 2002, he was appointed by President Bush to serve on a national summit Director and Industry Leader, Aerospace and Defense, for GE on retirement savings, and in 2003, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Commercial Finance and had over a 22 year career at GE serving in as a member of the federal retirement thrift investment board. He serves various management and leadership positions. He is active in various on the Board of World Business Chicago, the Board of Regents for Mercy industry organizations, including The National Chamber Foundation of Home for Boys and Girls, the Board of Trustees of Saint Xavier the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and The Institute for Defense and University and the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation. He is also Business Foundation. Dowling is a certified public accountant and has a Trustee of the CME Trust, whose mission is to enhance economic served as a director on several company boards during his career opportunity, health and education, especially for disadvantaged youth. A including Penske Truck Leasing. He holds a BS in accounting from third-generation Irish-American, Duffy says his Irish heritage is a source Fordham University and a JD from Pace University School of Law. of “great pride” and traces his father’s family to Westport, County Mayo. Dowling is a second-generation Irish-American, whose mother’s fam- He attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and, in 2007, ily hails from County Cork. He is married to Kate and has three sons. received a Doctor of Humane Letters from DePaul University.

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[the list] Jeffrey Dunne Anthony Earley C.B. Richard Ellis DTE Energy Jeffrey Dunne is the current Vice Chairman of C.B. Anthony F. Earley has been Chairman and Chief Richard Ellis. Dunne’s team was CBRE’s highest Executive Officer of DTE Energy for the past ten years. producing team worldwide in 2004 and then again He was also DTE Energy’s president and chief operat- in 2007. Personally, Dunne was the company’s ing officer from 1994 Ð 2004. He joined DTE Energy highest producer worldwide from 2002 until 2004 and then again in after working at its subsidiary company, Detroit Edison. While there, 2007. he focused on developing workforce skills and culture needed for Along with these prestigious distinctions he was awarded the Real Detroit Edison to be successful in a changing utility environment. Estate Finance Association’s Award of Excellence in 2000 and in 2004 Earley earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, a master’s of and 2005 received the NAIOP Award for the most significant deal in science in engineering, a law degree, and in 2006, an honorary Ph.D. Fairfield/Westchester County. He is Program Chair and former from the University of Notre Dame. After college, he served as an offi- President of the Real Estate Finance Association and for the past eight cer in the U.S. Navy. years has served on the Board of Trustees for the Wakefield Boys and On the board of directors of numerous educational and civic organi- Girls Club in Southport, CT. zations, including the Nuclear Energy Institute, Edison Electric A second-generation Irish-American, Dunne traces his roots Institute, The Detroit Zoological Society, United Way for Southeastern to County Longford, from where his grandfather left for America in Michigan and Cornerstone Schools, Earley is fourth- generation Irish- 1912, eventually settling in Pittsburgh where Dunne was born. He American, and a member of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. went on to receive his B.S. in Business, magna cum laude, from Penn Patrick. He is married and has four children. State and earned an M.B.A in Finance from N.Y.U.

James Farley John Farrell Irial Finan Dave Fitzgerald Ford Motor Company KPMG LLP The Coca-Cola Fitzgerald & Co James Farley is Group Vice John Michael Farrell is a Company In 1983, Dave Fitzgerald President of Marketing and National Lead Partner for Irial Finan is Executive Vice founded the successful advertis- Communications for the Ford KPMG in Enterprise Risk President, The Coca-Cola ing agency Fitzgerald & Co. He Motor Company and is the com- Management (ERM) services. Company, and President of remains president and CEO, and pany’s most senior marketing With more than 20 years of risk Bottling Investments and his company was named the leader. Before joining Ford, management and risk/control Supply Chain. Based in Atlanta, Best Agency in the Southeast by James was Group Vice President experience with he is responsible for managing Adweek. Along and General Manager of Lexus, Fortune 500 the five-billion-dollar internal with his success, responsible for all sales, market- multinational bottling business. his relationship ing and customer satisfaction clients, Farrell Finan joined Coca-Cola in with employees activities for Toyota’s luxury specializes in 1981 and has a myriad of led Fitzgerald & brand. Internal Audit, national and international experi- Co to be named Farley joined Toyota in 1990 Regulatory & ence. From 2001 to 2003, he one of the 10 and had a distinguished career Compliance served as CEO of Coca-Cola best companies there, a highlight being his Services. In this position he is HBC, during which time he in Atlanta to work for by the responsibility for the successful responsible for service delivery managed the merger of Coca- Atlanta Business Chronicle. He launch and rollout of Toyota’s on priority accounts in the man- Cola Beverages and Hellenic was formerly the president of new Scion brand. James was ufacturing and information/ Bottling, and led the combined the Atlanta Advertising Club later promoted to vice president communication sectors. company’s operations in 26 and past chairman of the board of Scion and was responsible for A graduate of the State countries. He serves on the board of directors for the Saint all Scion activities. University of New York at of directors of Coca-Cola and Joseph’s Hospital Foundation. A cousin of comedian Chris Albany, Farrell received his other companies and is a non- A second-generation Irish- Farley, James Master of Science, Accounting executive director of Alltracel American, Fitzgerald ran the Farley earned and MBA, Finance, from Long Pharmaceuticals and chairman of Order of the Green Jacket of a bachelor’s Island University. He is also a their Audit Committee. Ireland, which helped raise degree in eco- Certified Public Accountant in Finan is also a member of the funds for Irish athletes in the nomics and New York State and belongs to Galway 1996 Olympics. A member of computer sci- the New York State Society of University the Ancient Order of ence from Certified Public Accountants. Foundation Hibernians, the Metropolitan Georgetown Before joining KPMG, Farrell Board, and is a Atlanta Police Emerald Society, University and has an M.B.A. served as the Director of non-executive and the Hibernian Benevolent from UCLA. Internal Audit for Minerals director for Co- Society, he has twice been His grandfather was a long- Technologies, Inc. operation Grand Marshal of the Atlanta St. time Ford worker who eventu- Farrell is a third-generation Ireland. He Patrick’s Day Parade. ally ran a Lincoln-Mercury deal- Irish-American with roots in holds a Bachelor of Commerce Fitzgerald, who traces his ership near Detroit. Farley has Monahan on his father’s side. degree from National University family to the western counties many relatives who still live in His grandmother was one of of Ireland in Galway and is an of Kerry and Sligo, visits the Detroit area where he plans eleven children born at the turn Associate (later Fellow) of the Ireland often, and recently to move with his wife Lia and of the century in New York, Institute of Chartered became an Irish citizen. their two children. whose parents came to America Management Accountants. He is from Ireland in the 1880s. a native of County Roscommon.

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Business Management Keough Style

Donald Keough’s book The Ten Commandments for Business Failure is an insightfully witty exploration of how to be unsuccessful in business. Gleaned from a business career of more than 60 years and a life lived to the fullest, the book is Keough’s gift to anyone looking for a roadmap on how to become successful in business. The following excerpt comes from chapter two, “Quit Taking Risks,” with Keough talking about how, in life and business, not taking that step into the unknown can lead to stagnation.

merica, on the other hand, has been from slaves reached the United States in the very beginning worse shape. about risk taking. Those immigrants who did make From Columbus to it discovered that what awaited AJamestown to the Second Continental them was seldom the Promised Congress and Thomas Jefferson’s elo- Land, but a future of brutal dawn- quent Declaration of Independence, this to-dark work. My great grandfa- nation has been built on one risk after ther found the only job he could another. We are the descendants of get was lifting stone in a Pittsfield, tough, resilient risk takers who put Massachusetts, quarry, sixteen everything, including their lives, on the hours a day, one step above prison line and survived almost insurmountable work. Nevertheless, this hard odds. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur labor provided a little food and wrote in 1782, “Here individuals of all security and, because he soon nations are melted into a new race of married and had children, it’s men whose labours and posterity will reasonable to think that Michael one day cause great changes in the world might have been tempted to set- . . . The American is a new man.” tle down and stay in Pittsfield. My own great grandfather Michael It’s reasonable to think that Keough was only eighteen in 1848 when because when you achieve he left Ireland and all alone took the risk something, even very little, to cross the “bitter bowl of tears,” as the there is the great temptation to Atlantic was called. Conditions on the quit taking risks. ships were ghastly, with overcrowding, off-loaded at the first landfall. On the It’s human nature. I’ve got something. rats, filth, disease and hard-bitten cap- island of Grosse ële in Canada, thousands Why risk it? Who knows what’s on the tains who cared little for their cargo. En of Irish immigrants are buried in other side of the mountain? Don’t go route, bodies were tossed overboard or unmarked graves. Only the African there!

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I imagine my great grandfather heard came makes a day, any day, at the office Businessman such voices in his head and probably a walk in the park. onald Keough is chairman from some of the people around him in Yet as our lives get softer and richer Pittsfield. and more comfortable, the temptation to of the board of Allen & “Stay here. You’ve got a job. Lifting quit taking risks is so great. DCompany Incorporated, a rocks is an honorable occupation. There It’s one of the major diseases of suc- New York investment-banking firm, are thousands out there who have noth- cess. It’s easy to succumb, particularly as which he joined in 1993. Before that, ing!” you get older. I don’t mean age sixty. he made an illustrious career with The But instead of settling into the known, This disease can strike at age forty. You Coca-Cola Company, where he first albeit backbreaking, routine Pittsfield say to yourself, “I’ve been out on a limb got a job in 1950. Keough rose offered, Michael took a risk and migrat- all my life…worrying, losing sleep. Let through the ranks to serve as presi- ed across half the continent in an oxen- someone else do that now. I’m content dent, chief operating officer and direc- drawn prairie schooner to a far-off land with the status quo.” tor from 1981 to 1993. In 2004, Coca- called Iowa. I’m glad he did. Some might conclude that the risk Cola re-elected Donald as a director, His son, John, my grandfather, contin- taken by the startup entrepreneur who ued to expand the Iowa homestead, risk- mortgages his house and everything else making a change in its retirement poli- ing everything, year after year on crops in order to try a new idea or even pioneer cy. He also serves on the boards of that were subject to blizzards, dust a whole new industry is the most difficult IAC/InterActive Corp., Global Yankee storms, and grasshoppers. I remember kind of risk to take. Four out of five new Holdings, Convera Corporation, and being told that because there were so few businesses fail. Most new products never Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. trees on the property, grandfather had to make it out of the test market, and if they Donald has received honorary drive a team of horses about twenty do they have only a one in thirteen doctorates from the University of miles once a week to the Rock River, chance of success. The National Notre Dame, his alma mater where he would cut wood, the only Federation of Independent Business Creighton University, Emory source of fuel. One day, Research Foundation esti- University,Trinity College Dublin, he swung the ax and cut mates that after just five University College Dublin, and Clarke off his toe. He simply years only half of new shoved the toe back on, businesses with employ- University. bound it up with burlap, ees are still operating, and Notre Dame’s highest honor, the and finished his work. many of those at a loss. It Laetare Medal, was presented to The toe, the foot, and certainly isn’t easy. Donald in 1993. In 1995, he established my grandfather survived Ð But equally difficult, the Keough Institute of Irish Studies at without antibiotics, I and sometimes more so, is Notre Dame. He was elected a Fellow might add. to undertake a risk from a of the American Academy of Arts & We in this country have position of substantial Sciences in 2002, and inducted into the a unique gene pool. Most ongoing success Ð to Junior Achievement National Business of us come from a long undertake a risk when Hall of Fame in 2003. line of remarkable indi- there is considerable evi- In June, 2007, he was awarded viduals who boarded the dence that it might not A newspaper clipping of John honorary Irish citizenship. boat when most other peo- Keough, Don’s grandfather, even be necessary. Today, ple stayed behind. Many who was a farmer in Iowa. there is a substantial amount didn’t even get a chance to of time and effort devoted to get to shore. And those who did survive risk assessment from one perspective or uncomfortable from time to time at The the journey across the Atlantic or the another, ranging from the statistical odds Coca-Cola Company whenever things Pacific (or the mountains or the prairies of actual loss to the chances of running seemed to be going awfully well. Like or the desert) were then rewarded with afoul of governance rules and regula- the Russians say, “Having things too season after season of unbelievable hard- tions. I am not an expert in the science of good is also not good.” ship on farms or in building railroads or risk assessment. In my experience, the I must have irritated quite a few people in dangerous and dirty mines and facto- main prerequisite for exploring the pos- when, with considerable regularity, I’d ries unimaginable today. In 1900, sibility of the need to take a new or go around asking our top people, “Tell American families spent nearly twice as greater risk was the unsettled feeling that me again why everything is so good. much on funerals as they did on medi- things ought to be better, that the future Isn’t there something more we ought to cine. Somehow they prevailed. was indeed in jeopardy unless we took be worrying about today in order to make Against a background of overcoming some action Ð even worse, that we were sure we have something else to worry challenges like those our ancestors over- missing an opportunity. I would get very about tomorrow?” IA

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[the list] Jayne Fitzpatrick John Fitzpatrick Gulf Oil Fitzpatrick Hotels In March 2006, Jayne Fitzpatrick (who recently John Fitzpatrick, Chairman and CEO of the Fitzpatrick became Jayne Conway when she married Kevin) was Hotel Group North America, relocated to New York named Chief Financial Officer of Gulf Oil LP, a $5.5 from Ireland almost two decades ago and gained a sig- billion wholesaler of petroleum products. nificant reputation in hospitality in one of the most She joined Gulf Oil LP from Dunkin’ Brands, parent company to competitive cities in the world. He started his career with his family’s Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins, where she held a number of hotels in Bunratty and Dublin over 25 years ago. In 1991, Fitzpatrick leadership positions, including Chief Strategy Officer. A Bain and opened the Fitzpatrick Manhattan, the Group’s first U.S. hotel. In Company alumnus, she has provided strategic consulting services to 1995, he assumed management of the Fitzpatrick East 55th Street, and Fortune 500 clients. in 1998 he opened the 155-room Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel. Jayne received her Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering from Expansion to downtown Chicago followed in May 2001 with the North Carolina State University, and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard opening of the Fitzpatrick Chicago Hotel, which was sold in 2006 for a Business School. handsome profit. Fitzpatrick completed hotel management courses in A third-generation Irish-American, Jayne traces her roots to County Ireland and later, the prestigious hotel program at UNLV in Las Vegas. Antrim, to her paternal great-grandmother. She and Kevin were He was recently appointed to a second term as Chairman of the Hotel married in Kilkea Castle, County Kildare, Kevin’s birthplace. Of the Association of NYC, and also serves on the boards of The American match she says, “He is my constant reminder to the strength that I Ireland Fund and the Ireland-US Council. He has received numerous have drawn from a woman I never knew, and to a culture whose spirit awards, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2002 and can never be broken. Life indeed comes full circle.” recently, an honorary OBE from Queen Elizabeth II.

Lawrence Flanagan William Flynn Jack Foley William Clay Ford Jr MasterCard Worldwide Mutual of America Aer Lingus Ford Motor Company Lawrence Flanagan joined During his 34 years with Mutual As Executive Vice President of Ford Motor Executive MasterCard in October 1996. of America, Bill Flynn estab- Aer Lingus, Jack Foley oversees Chairman William Clay Ford is He is currently the executive lished himself as a great leader, all strategic, operational and the great-grandson of Henry vice president and chief market- whose business skills were marketing programs for the air- Ford, who was the son of an ing officer, Worldwide reflected in Mutual of America’s line in North America. Irish immigrant from County Marketing and performance and recognized A customer-focused airline Cork. Henry “put the world on Communications, and a member throughout the that offers a professional, effi- wheels by mak- of the company’s Operating life insurance cient and friendly service, Aer ing personal Committee. Flanagan is respon- industry. Now Lingus was the first airline to mobility afford- sible for building the value of Mutual’s apply the pricing strategies of able,” and the MasterCard brand on behalf Chairman discounters such as Southwest William Jr. is of customer financial institu- Emeritus, and America West to trans- leading the 102- tions and shareholders as well as Flynn’s commit- Atlantic travel. The company year-old com- managing the brands of the ment to social receives less than two com- pany that bears company’s various consumer justice continues to be felt in the plaints per thousand customers his family name. payment solutions. The force success of the Irish peace in the busiest period of travel. William, who joined Ford in behind MasterCard’s Priceless process and the work of the Foley has come a long way 1979, is a dedicated environ- advertising campaign, his guid- National Committee on from his first job in the airline mentalist. His efforts have won ance has resulted in the ad cur- American Foreign Policy business, as a bag loader for him the President’s Commission rently airing in more than 90 (NCAFP). As the first Irish- Lufthansa at JFK. That job, on Environmental Quality countries. The campaign has American chairman of the however, paid for his Bachelor Award. In 2000, under his lead- won numerous awards and hon- NCAFP, it was Flynn who of Science and M.B.A. in inter- ership, Ford published its first ors. In 2004, invited all of Northern Ireland’s national marketing from St. corporate citizenship report out- Flanagan was political leaders, including John’s University. In 1979, lining the economic, environ- recognized as Gerry Adams, to the U.S., a Foley joined British Airways mental and social impact of its one of the move that propelled Northern and rose to the position of vice global operations. As vice chair- most influen- Ireland into the peace process. A president of mar- man of the Detroit Lions, he led tial figures in graduate of Fordham University, keting in the U.S. efforts to build a new, environ- sports by Flynn is a first-generation Irish- In 1996 he was mentally friendly stadium in Sports American with roots in counties recruited by Aer Detroit and helped expand the Business International. Mayo and Down. Lingus to man- Detroit Police Athletic League Flanagan, a fourth-generation In 1996, he was Grand age their youth football program. He is Irish-American with roots in Marshal of New York City’s St. TransAtlantic also Honorary Chairman of the Galway (the first Flanagan Patrick’s Day Parade. In 2005, division. Southeast Michigan Consortium migrated to New Haven, the Tanenbaum Center for Inter- A second-generation Irish- for Water Quality. Connecticut on January 10, religious Understanding pre- American with roots in County Ford, who holds a B.A. from 1850), holds a B.S. degree from sented him with a Special Cork, Foley is on the board of Princeton University, where he the University of New Haven. Peacemaker in Action Award directors of the Ireland-U.S. has served as a trustee, and a He resides in Darien, “for a lifetime devoted to con- Business Council. He lives on master’s from MIT, is married Connecticut with his wife flict resolution.” Long Island with his wife and with four children. and three children. their son.

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Business100 Patrick Gallagher John Gilmore Colleen Goggins David Greaney Giants Enterprises Sling Media Johnson & Johnson Synergy Entering his 32nd year with Johnny Gilmore is COO of Colleen Goggins is a member David Greaney is founder and Giants Enterprises, a wholly Sling Media, the electronics of Johnson & Johnson’s president of Synergy, a Boston- owned subsidiary of the San company renowned for the Executive Committee and has based real estate investment and Francisco Giants baseball team, Sling Box, and is responsible served as Worldwide Chairman, development company. Patrick Gallagher has risen in for Sling Media’s day-to-day Consumer Group since June, Synergy acquires, develops the ranks from marketing direc- global operations. Gilmore is 2001. and manages real estate opportu- tor to president. well versed in Goggins joined J&J in 1981. nities in the New Before joining the Giants global opera- After working on several proj- England region. organization, Patrick was an tions, bringing ects, she transferred to J&J The company’s executive at Marine over 15 years of GmbH in Germany, as Director $250 million World/Africa USA and Sea senior manage- of Marketing. In 1992, she portfolio is World theme parks. With the ment positions became President of J&J scheduled to dou- Giants, he played a large role in in countries Canada; in 1994, President, ble in 2008, pri- the design and naming rights of ranging from Personal Products Company, marily due to its the new stadium, SBC Stadium. England and Ireland to Australia U.S.; in 1995, President, partnerships with Irish-based Pacific Bell was the original and the Netherlands. Consumer Products Company; equity. partner. He also develops other Gilmore has worked for such she was promoted to Company David is a certified public uses for the stadium besides prestigious companies as Arthur Group Chairman in 1998. accountant in Massachusetts and baseball, such as soccer matches Andersen and Andersen Goggins earned a B.S. in has held positions in the invest- and concerts. Under his leader- Consulting and Iomega who food chemistry from the ment management groups of ship, the Giants have received manufactured the Zip and Jazz University of Wisconsin and an Harvard University and numerous accolades, including drives. He spent five years with M.M. from Northwestern PricewaterhouseCoopers. the MLB mar- Handspring, and before Sling University’s Business School. He serves on the board of the ket Excellence Media was Vice President of She is a member of the Board Massachusetts Special Olympics award. Operations for Virgin of Trustees for Historic and is a director and trustee of Patrick is a Electronics. Morven, Inc., and The Nature the New England Chapter of the past president An Irish native, Gilmore was Conservancy in Ireland Chamber of Commerce of the Big born in County Down and went New Jersey. U.S.A. He is also actively Brothers/Big on to attend the University of Goggins, involved in numerous other Irish Sisters of the Manchester, England where he whose Irish her- and business organizations Peninsula area. received his B.A. in Economics. itage is on her throughout the region, including He also sits on the executive He is a member of the Irish father’s side, The American Ireland Fund. committees of the San Francisco Technology Leadership Group was named to Born in Limerick, David is a Convention and Visitors Bureau and is a Fellow of the Institute the 2007 Fortune graduate of University College and Special Olympics of of Chartered Accountants in “50 Most Powerful Women in Dublin. He currently resides in Northern California. A second- England and Wales. He and Business” list, and has been a Boston with his wife Kathy and generation Irish-American, he his wife currently reside in regular on the list for several his son David. traces his roots to counties California with their four years. She is proud of J&J’s Donegal and Clare. He and his children. Women’s Leadership Initiative, wife Joan live in Palo Alto, designed to support leadership California with their two development of the firm’s children. female employees around the world. Harry Greeley James Hannan Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. Georgia Pacific Harry Greeley is the Senior Director of Transaction Jim Hannan is C.E.O. and President of Georgia Pacific Services at Cushman & Wakefield (C&W), where he L.L.C., a position he has held since November 2007. has worked since 1997. During his tenure with C&W, Prior to his current post with Georgia Pacific, Hannan which has a subsidiary in Dublin, he has consistently found employment with Koch Industries. With the been distinguished as being one of its Top 100 Producers, and was 2005 acquisition of Georgia Pacific by Koch, Jim was named the awarded the Bronze Award for Production in 1999 for his work on a Executive Vice President and Chief Administration Officer and was 465,000sf transaction for VNU, Inc., which was nominated for later promoted to President and C.O.O in addition to being named to REBNY’s most ingenious deal of the year award. Georgia Pacific’s Board of Directors. Greeley is also active with a number of other industry, professional, Hannan attended California State University, East Bay campus, and charitable associations, including the Real Estate Board of New where he received his bachelor’s degree in business administration. York; Member, Hudson Valley Hospital; Board Member, CoreNet Hannan resides in Atlanta where he serves as a board member for (Corporate Global Real Estate Network); International Facility organizations including the Atlanta Committee for Progress, the Atlanta Management Association (IFMA); National Arts Club; and Ireland- History Center and the Commerce Club. This year, he joined the fight United States Council. Born in Queens, New York, Greeley earned his against breast cancer by serving as the corporate chair for the Atlanta Bachelor of Science degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. A third- branch of the Komen Race for the Cure. Hannan is a fourth-generation generation Irish-American whose grandfather emigrated from Irish-American. His great-great-grandmother came to the U.S. in the Ballymacshane in Co. Longford in 1864, Greeley says that his Irish mid 1800s from County Cork. heritage has taught him “the present is always a product of the past.” Greeley is married with two children.

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Business100 John Hartnett Maureen Henegan Donagh Herlihy Martin Holleran Palm, Inc. Henegan Construction Co. Avon Products, Inc. Merryck & Company As Senior Vice President of After spending 20 years honing Donagh Herlihy, Senior Vice Marty Holleran is CEO of Global Markets, John Hartnett is her skills in various aspects of the President and Chief Information Merryck & Co. U.S.A., the responsible for Palm, Inc.’s construction industry, Maureen Officer, leads Avon’s information world’s leading CEO mentoring worldwide sales, service and sup- Henegan is now CEO of Henegan technology strategy and opera- company. Holleran joined port. Palm is a market leader Construction. Included in her tions globally. He directs a team Merryck after over 26 years providing worldwide mobile extensive knowledge of the con- of over 1500 professionals with General Electric, where he computing solutions to con- struction world responsible for providing all held the position sumers and business, via break- are forays into aspects of the technology infra- of Corporate through innovations from the marketing, structure supporting Avon’s inter- Officer. original Palm Pilot to today’s finance, legal nal business operations and for Holleran Treo line of smartphones. The affairs, computer connecting and enabling the busi- received his B.S. company is headquartered in technology and ness for more than 5.4 million from the California and has offices around hands-on project Avon Representatives worldwide. University of the world, including a European management. Herlihy joined Avon in March Scranton and a engineering center in Dublin. Henegan received her BA 2008 from the Wrigley Master’s in Electrical Hartnett earned a marketing from the College of Mount Saint Company, where he was CIO. In Engineering from the University degree through the Marketing Vincent. She went on to attend addition to leading IT, Mr. of Delaware. He received the Institute of Ireland, a post-gradu- Albany Law School. A member Herlihy also served successively Torch of Liberty Award from the ate diploma in finance through of the New York State Bar as Vice President of Human Anti-Defamation League, as the Association of Chartered Association, Henegan is also a Resources and Vice President of well as serving as a commence- Accountants and completed the Vice Chairman of the NY Supply Chain Strategy and ment speaker at Rutgers executive man- Building Congress, a member of Planning. University and as an Executive agement pro- the Building Owners’ and Prior to Wrigley, Herlihy spent in Residence at St. Joseph’s gram at Managers’Association of NY, six years at Gillette, ultimately College. Among his many Stanford the Young Presidents’ leading Information Technology accomplishments, Holleran University. A Organization and Professional at its Duracell subsidiary. Earlier established the Children’s native of Women in Construction from in his career, Pompe Foundation, a group that Limerick, he is whom she has received such dis- Herlihy was searches for a cure for a rare on the board of tinguished awards as the based in the UK, form of muscular dystrophy. He the University Executive Achievement Award where he worked has participated in the of Limerick Foundation. Hartnett (presented in 1995) and the in manufacturing, Presidential Executive is also head of the Irish Business Leadership Award, business process Interchange in Washington, Technology Leadership Group in which she received in 2001. reengineering D.C. and is on the board of Silicon Valley. He is a partner in Henegan is a third-generation and information regents at Catholic University. Atlantic Bridge Ventures, a Irish-American and traces her technology in both the consumer A second-generation Irish- European-based venture capital father’s family to County Mayo. goods and automotive sectors. American, his father’s family firm with offices in Dublin and When asked what her Irish her- Herlihy has both a BSC and an came from Mayo and his London. Married with four chil- itage means to her, she replied, “It MA in Industrial Engineering mother’s from Sligo. He says, dren, Hartnett is a founding means sharing ancestry with a from Trinity College in Dublin, “Being Irish has given me the member of Munster Rugby USA, culture that loves life and laugh- and he has completed the ethics, will, focus and tolerance and a member of The American ter, that cherishes its language, Executive Program at the to succeed.” Holleran has been Ireland Fund. history, music and dance—and University of Michigan, Ross married for 45 years and has that saved civilization!” School of Business. three children. James Houlihan William Howell Houlilhan-Parnes/iCap Realty Advisors Howell Enterprises James J. Houlihan, representing the fourth generation Bill Howell blends financial, legal, and public experi- in a family business founded in 1891, is managing ence with his relationships to create business opportuni- partner of Houlihan-Parnes/iCap Realty Advisors, ties. His platforms include Greystone and Shelbourne LLC, and a founding member of the new national real Securities; top investment managers are his clients. estate company, iCap Realty Advisors. Howell was a managing director for Prudential Securities and served A graduate of Manhattan Preparatory School and Fordham two Speakers of the NYS Assembly and Mayor Koch. University’s School of Business, Houlihan recently put together an At Prudential, Howell was an investment banker and directed new exhibit entitled “Fighting Irishmen: A Celebration of the Celtic business strategy. His other positions included: Mayor's Rep. to the Warrior” which premiered at the Irish Arts Center in New York City Board of Estimate and Rep. to the City Council, as well as Chair of before being moved to the South Street Seaport Museum; it is currently NYSERDA. Howell leads the fund placement efforts for Emerald the feature exhibit at the John J. Burns Library at Boston College. Development Managers and recently obtained a $150 million commit- He serves on the Board of the Irish Arts Center and the Board of ment from NYC retirement systems. This private equity fund will Directors of St. Patrick’s Home in the Bronx and has served as invest in ground-up development projects in Ireland and the US. Chairman of the Great Hunger Memorial Committee of Westchester He serves on the Anthony Robbins Foundation and is a founder of County. A fourth-generation Irish-American on his father’s side with the STOQ Int'l Leadership society. Howell's education includes a B.A roots in Kenmare, Co. Kerry, and second-generation, with roots in from John Carroll University, a University of Pittsburgh M.P.A. and a Tyrone and Donegal, on his mother’s side, Houlihan lives in J.D. from St. Johns Law. He resides in Rockville Centre, NY with his Bronxville with his wife Pat and their five children. wife and three children and traces his Irish roots to Galway and Belfast.

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Cuil – Searching To Be A Real Alternative Declan O’Kelly speaks to Cuil Co-founder Tom Costello about building a search engine that will endure.

om Costello speaks correct them because in her opinion Ð have heard of us,” he says. In this age quickly. He is a busy and the great thing in Ireland is that then, even when all press is purportedly man. Not only is he everyone has an opinion Ð that is the good press, was some of the naysaying a the co-founder of right way to spell it, and the spelling in little hard to stomach? Cuil.com, a new search Ulster Irish is just as good as the spelling “It’s something that you expect. engine website, but he in Munster Irish. Neither is right, but Especially from my Irish heritage, if you Tis also married to the other co-founder, both are permissible.” ever do well or pop up with a lot of atten- Anna Patterson, and they have four chil- In a way, just like neither Ulster Irish tion, there will always be people there to dren under the age of eight. As if he did- nor Munster Irish is “right,” no one knock you down,” says Costello. “For n’t have enough reasons not to be getting search engine is “perfect,” and if a new us, it was a fabulous start because we got enough sleep, the market leader and Cuil’s site offers users something unique and people to hear about us. We are a little chief rival is none other than Google. equally as beneficial, then it should find older than most startups, a lot of people Cuil means Knowledge in Gaelic, and a place in the market. That was the seed here are in their 30s, 40s and 50s. People the company is named after the legend of that set Costello and Patterson on their at that age are more intent at building Finn McCuil. The young warrior was grail to give the search industry a new something long term as opposed to cooking the salmon of knowledge for his alternative. immediate success. We are here to try master, Finnegas, who had spent his life Finn McCuil got burnt before he and create. Some of the reasons that peo- trying to capture the salmon, when he absorbed all that wisdom from the ple left Google, for example, to do a inadvertently inherited all its wisdom salmon of knowledge. No pain no gain. startup were not for sudden success, but when he sucked his thumb after scalding At the launch of the site on July 28, there for the opportunity to build a long-term it while cooking the fish. The name is a was so much traffic that several comput- thing. We see it as a journey and we are nod to Costello’s Irish roots and an effort er servers crashed; critics unsheathed very excited to be here to create over the to create a global brand name. their knives in some reviews of the new next five, ten, fifteen years.” “One of the things that is important in search engine, and Louis Monier, VP of Costello, who was born and raised in the IT space is that you try to be a world Product Development, retired from his Drogheda, County Louth, met Patterson, company,” Costello told Irish America full time position at Cuil in September. whose mother’s family, the Ross’s, come over the phone from the company’s So has it been a difficult time? Costello from Donegal and father’s from headquarters in Menlo Park, California. sees it from a different perspective. Northern Ireland, while both were stu- “It is very easy in the Silicon Valley to “We had a fabulous launch. Had we dents at Stanford University. The two just focus on the West Coast or America. launched in September in the midst of had offices next to one another but due to I wanted to have a general feeling of this financial crisis, no one would ever Tom being a late riser and Anna an early being more worldly, and I felt that draw- ing on the Irish heritage was a nice way of doing that.” In an interesting aside, Costello “We had a fabulous launch. revealed that though feedback from Ireland has been overwhelmingly posi- Had we launched in tive, one Irish-language newspaper received a letter arguing the company September in the midst of had misspelled the word Cuil. Costello’s mother felt compelled to reply. this financial crisis, no one “My mother is a bit of a Gaelgoir, and needless to say she had to write in and would ever have heard of us”

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Tom Costello and Anna Patterson

all that information out there about you, essentially beyond your control. For that reason, privacy, especially in Europe, is a big issue for people and it is a demand that people have.” Cuil is slowly finding an audience among search users, and some of the trends in traffic have surprised Costello somewhat. “One thing we have noticed, just from the pattern of traffic, is that we get an awful lot of European users Ð or else a lot of Americans who are up in the middle of the night. We get a lot more traffic on the weekends, so it seems that we are being used less by people at work and more by people in their free time, which is the opposite of most search engines.” But is it harder for the likes of Cuil to attract advertisers in a market dominated by one major player and is there a “fear factor” among other software firms who may consider

COURTESY CUIL COURTESY forming partnerships with an untest- ed and untried startup such as Cuil? one, it was six months before they actu- search engines and come to us, that we “I think it is the absolute opposite. ally met. A romance blossomed and the will come through for them.” Google is the 800-pound gorilla, and two were married in 1998. Their children Cuil maintains that it indexes 1.2 bil- some people may think that Google is a Sean (8), Caia (7), Avania (5) and Ilaria lion pages. They don’t list the most pop- little too big and a little too strong,” (2) were all baptized in Drogheda. ular pages, or the obvious choice of Costello maintains. “There is a huge risk After Stanford, Tom would end up page, but rather analyze what pages will that we could end up with one search working at IBM and Anna at Google. supply the best content for the search in engine and that all the other search Costello maintains that the Cuil launch question. Visually, Cuil differentiates engines will drift away into irrelevance, was akin to the opening of a restaurant Ð itself by listing results in a “magazine and that would be terrible; terrible for the they had a huge amount of customers style” format using thumbnail-size pho- market leader and terrible for the con- while they were ironing out the kinks. tos. sumers because they do not get the “We are working hard at improving One area where Cuil has an advantage choice.” things every day,” Tom says. “We are is their privacy policy. They retain none Costello and Patterson are also lucky rolling out new features every week. But of their users’ private information. First that they have investors who are prepared we recognize that search isn’t a business of all, because they don’t want to analyze to stick by them long-term and support where you get overnight success. It took user trends to provide the most popular them while they set out to establish them- Google five or six years to take off from search results, and secondly because of selves as a true alternative. With that said, a small research project to be the thing how life is evolving in the information would the startup ever consider merging if that people use all the time. In the same age. a big company came knocking on the way, we believe that when you build “People have a real feeling that com- door? “I’ve worked with a big company, something you have to prove stuff to panies shouldn’t know an awful lot about I’ve worked at IBM and it is almost people. We believe that we have to find you because there is a big danger in peo- impossible to be innovative and to make stuff for people, not once, but several ple knowing too much personal informa- changes and to launch new features. That times, before they say, ‘these people are tion,” argues Costello. “It is not a danger is the joy of being in a company you con- doing a good job and I will trust them to right now, but going forward as the trol. Being in a small company is the abil- be the search engine I use all the time.’ world becomes more networked and peo- ity to be able to create and to do things. We are focused that when people don’t ple rely more on online services, it Most of the big players out there are just find what they are looking for on other becomes even riskier that there would be too big to be creative.” IA

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Business100 James Hynes Alfred F. Kelly Declan Kelly Christopher Kennedy Neutral Tandem,Inc. American Express FTI Consulting/FD The Merchandising Mart Jim Hynes is the Executive In June 2007, Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. Declan Kelly was appointed this Christopher Kennedy, son of the Chairman of Neutral Tandem, became President of American year to the position of Executive late Senator Robert Kennedy, is Inc., the company he co-founded Express Company. Prior to that, Vice President and Chief the president of Merchandise in 2003. Neutral provides inter- Kelly served as Group President Integration Officer at FTI Mart Properties Inc (MMPI). connection services to major at American Express. Kelly Consulting, Inc. Kelly retains MMPI manages a wide variety telecommunication service joined the company’s Strategic his position as Chairman in the of office space and sponsors providers across the country. Planning depart- United States of FD, the strate- numerous trade Before Neutral Tandem, Hynes ment in 1987. gic communications division of shows through- was Group Managing Director Kelly serves FTI Consulting. He has served out the year. for Fidelity Ventures and CEO of on the Board of as CEO of FD-US for the past MMPI is a divi- COLT telecommunications. Directors of six years. In his role as sion of the Hynes received his BA and an Concern President and CEO of FD/US, Vornado Realty honorary doctorate from Iona Worldwide Kelly headed the company’s Trust, which College and an MBA from USA. He is a operations in New York, Boston, purchased it Adelphi University. He is a member of the Board of Chicago, San Francisco and from the Kennedy family in member of the Board of Trustees of New York Washington, D.C. He is also 1998. Kennedy joined the com- Directors of Insite Wireless and Presbyterian Hospital, a mem- chairman of FD Ireland, a busi- pany as a research analyst in also serves on the North ber of the Council on Foreign ness he founded. 1987, becoming a vice president American Board of the Smurfit Relations, and was, for 13 years, He received the 2005 Alumni in 1991 and executive vice pres- Graduate School of Business, a Trustee of Iona College. He Award for Business and ident in 1994. He was appointed UCD. serves on the Board of Directors Commerce from the National president in 2000. A first-generation Irish- of the Iona Prep School and, for University of Ireland, Galway, Kennedy is involved in American, the past twenty years, served as and was recently awarded the numerous nonprofit groups, and Hynes has con- Vice Chairman for the Wall 2008 Gold Medal award from is on the board of the nections to Street Charity Golf Classic, a the American Irish Historical Rehabilitation Institute of County major fundraising event for the Society. Kelly is also a member Chicago. He belongs to the Limerick, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. of the Advisory Chicago Council on Foreign where his father He received a BA (summa Board of Relations and the Economic is from, and cum laude) and MBA with Glucksman Club of Chicago. Arklow, County Honors from Iona College. A Ireland House at The Kennedy family has Wicklow, where his mother was second-generation Irish- New York roots in County Wexford. born. When asked what his Irish American with roots in Cork, University and Married with four children, heritage meant to him, Hynes, Kelly resides in New York’s sits on the board Katherine, Christopher Jr., who is married with twin daugh- Westchester County with his of directors of Sarah, and Clare, Kennedy ters, replied: “Closeness to my wife and their five children. The American Ireland Fund and earned his bachelor’s degree at Irish heritage provides a touching Cooperation Ireland. Born and Boston College, and a master’s point to my forebears and sense raised in Tipperary, Kelly lives in management from the of continuity and stability. It in Manhattan with his wife and Kellogg Graduate School of helps me better understand many son. Management at Northwestern. things about myself, my family and so many of my friends.”

Patrick Keough A.G. Lafley FD The Procter & Gamble Company Patrick Keough is a senior vice president at FD and As the Chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble, A.G. head of the firm’s Business Services Group. Keough’s Lafley oversees the largest consumer company in the other major areas of responsibility include manage- world. Under Lafley’s leadership sales have grown ment of the Design & Marketing Sector, growth of the from 40 billion to over 80 billion. Lafley earned a B.A. FD offering in Latin America, global account management, and strate- degree from Hamilton College in 1969 and an M.B.A. from Harvard gic acquisition planning. University in 1977, at which time he joined Procter & Gamble. He is Before joining FD, Keough had 25 years experience in the commu- also a director of General Electric Company, and Dell, Inc. He serves nications industry, holding senior management positions in the adver- on the Board of Trustees at Hamilton College and is a member of the tising industry at WPP and IPG where he was responsible for leading Lauder Institute Board of Governors, the Business Roundtable and the accounts including Samsung, General Motors and Johnson & Johnson. Business Council. Keough has a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MA Chief Executive magazine named Lafley “CEO of the Year” for 2006. from the University of Georgia. He serves on the University of Notre Lafley, who was Irish America’s Keynote Speaker for its 2005 Business Dame’s College of Arts & Letters Advisory Board and is a Director of 100 Awards Luncheon in New York City, is a second-generation Irish- the American Irish Historical Society. Like his father Donald, Keough American who traces his roots to County Cork. He cites the influence is proud of his Irish roots. He and his wife, Megan, have four children of his Irish grandmother, Catherine “Kitty” Irwin, as of huge impor- and live in Rye, NY. tance during his childhood in Keene, New Hampshire. Lafley lives in Cincinnati.

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Business100 Peter Lawson Deirdre Littlefield MacDara Lynch Michael O’Hara Lynch HMA Starr Marine Agency Inc. Pfizer Visa Pete Lawson is the Executive Deirdre Healy Littlefield has MacDara Lynch is the Vice In his twelve-year career as Vice President for Health been the Senior Vice President President/Team Leader of Head of Global Sponsorship Management Associates, Inc. and Director of Business Pfizer’s Global Contract Management at Visa, Michael Lawson joined the company in Development and Field Office Manufacturing Division. He Lynch has led the company’s April 1998 as Vice President of Operations for Starr Marine joined Pfizer in 1972 in sponsorship marketing business the Western Division. In Agency, Inc. since joining the Ringaskiddy, Cork and over the to the pinnacle of the industry. December 1999 Lawson was company in years has worked in various Thanks to promoted to Senior Vice 2006. She is also roles in Belgium, Indonesia, and Lynch’s leader- President and then Executive the current Nebraska. In 2000, MacDara ship, Visa was Vice President Ð Hospital President of the transferred to Brooklyn as Site recently recog- Operations as an officer of the International Leader for the manufacturing nized by Event company in June 2001. In 2007 Union of Marine facility and in 2003 he was Marketer maga- he assumed responsibility for all Insurance. appointed as Vice President/ zine as the only development activity. Aside from Team Leader of Pfizer’s Global financial serv- Lawson received his Bachelor her duties as Senior Vice Manufacturing Division, United ices company among “The 25 of Business degree, with a con- President, Littlefield is involved States East/Canada Region Best Sponsors in America” and centration in Management in industry organizations and before assuming his current was heralded as “The most well- Information Systems, from the served as the Chairman of the position in 2007. rounded sponsor around.” University of Notre Dame and American Institute of Marine Born in Bandon, County Lynch joined Visa in 1995 his Master’s in Health Underwriters from 2000-2002. Cork, MacDara graduated from after serving as vice president of Administration from Duke She was named one of the insur- University College Cork in events for Radio City Music University. In ance industry’s “100 Top 1972 with a B.Sc. degree in Hall Productions. Prior to that 1995 he was Women” by Business Insurance chemistry. Throughout his trav- Lynch was vice president and awarded Magazine in 2000 and as a els, he has always been active in general manager of ProServ Inc. Modern “Woman to Watch” in 2006. the local community. He served A frequent visitor to Ireland, Healthcare’s Born in Cork City, Ireland, as Honorary Irish Consul in Lynch is a third-generation Up and Comer her father’s family comes from Indonesia for Irish-American. His father’s Award. Kerry while her mother’s hails two years and family comes from Galway and Lawson’s from Cork. Littlefield says, serves on his mother’s from Cork. His father’s family comes from Co. “Being born in Ireland and Brooklyn Legal favorite Irish group is U2 for the Clare and his mother’s hail from growing up in the U.S.A. with Services role the band plays in world Tipperary. A third-generation family and friends on both sides Corporation’s affairs as well as for its great Irish-American, he lives in of the Atlantic, I have always board of direc- music. Naples, Florida, with his wife been impressed by the deep tors. He is also a A graduate of the University Diane and three children. He common bonds that link the member of the board of direc- of Notre Dame and the Cornell says, “I constantly remind my countries so closely together.” tors of the Ireland - U.S. University Johnson Graduate own children of their Irish her- Littlefield attended Seton Hill Council. MacDara and his wife School of Management, Lynch itage so they support all immi- University in Pennsylvania. She Ita have three children and two has both a BBA in Accounting grants to the United States who is married with one daughter, granddaughter and live in and an MBA in Marketing. He are struggling to obtain the Catherine. Connecticut. He says being Irish lives in California with his wife American Way in the same way “helps to refocus on what is and two daughters, McKenzie their ancestors struggled and really important in life.” and Dylan. succeeded.” Joanna Maguire Patricia Martin Lockheed Martin Eli Lilly & Co. Joanna Maguire is executive vice president of Patty A. Martin is Vice President of Global Diversity at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and also Eli Lilly and Co., a position she has held since June an officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation. In this 2006. Martin leads the company’s integrated diversity role, she is responsible for the business operations and strategy inclusive of workforce and marketplace diver- activities of approximately 18,000 company employees. sity. A graduate of Indiana University, with a B.A. in accounting, Maguire, who was named to Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women” Martin received her MBA from Harvard. In addition to her duties at Eli list for 2007 as well as 2008, earned her bachelor's degree in electrical Lilly, Martin also serves as a member of the Healthcare engineering from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in Businesswomen Association National Advisory Board, the National engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. Alliance for Hispanic Health Corporate Advisory Council and the A graduate of the executive program in management at UCLA’s Dean’s Council for the Kelley School of Business. In 2008 she received Anderson School of Management, Maguire also completed the the Champion of Diversity Award from Indiana Minority Business Harvard Program for Senior Executives in National and International Magazine. Security. Martin is a second-generation Irish-American. Her company, Eli Maguire, who serves as a director on the boards of Space Lilly, has a branch in Kinsale, Co. Cork. Martin has fond memories of Foundation and INROADS, Inc., is also a member of the American her father whistling “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” every morning Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Society of Women. when she was growing up. “Every morning, to this day, I try to smile She is a first-generation Irish-American whose father, Michael F. with my eyes,” she says. “I believe it shows the inner spirit and Maguire, was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal. strength of my Irish ancestry.” Patty lives in Indiana with her husband and two children.

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Business100 James McCann Norman McClelland Brendan McDonagh Pat McGovern 1-800-Flowers.com Shamrock Foods HSBC – North America IDG When Jim McCann founded 1- Norman McClelland took his Holdings Inc. Patrick J. McGovern is the 800-Flowers in 1976, people father’s small dairy in Tucson, Brendan McDonagh is Chief founder and chairman of told him that he couldn’t change Arizona and transformed it into Executive Officer of HSBC Ð International Data Group. customers’ purchase behaviors. Shamrock Foods Company Ð North America Holdings Inc. McGovern began his publishing Luckily, McCann did not listen the largest dairy in the Appointed CEO in February career as an editor at Computers to them, or he would not now be Southwest and the seventh 2008, he is responsible for the and Automation, the first U.S. president and CEO of a com- largest food dis- Group’s banking and consumer computer maga- pany with annual revenues of tribution com- finance operations in the U.S. zine. In 1964, he almost $1 billion. pany in the U.S. and Canada. In 2008 McDonagh founded the McCann started his company As one of the also became Group Managing International with a single flower shop over largest employ- Director for HSBC Holdings Data 30 years ago in addition to his ers in Arizona, plc, and is a member of the Corporation, regular job as a social worker. Shamrock Foods HSBC Group Management which has He eventually expanded it to a is a significant Board. He joined HSBC in 1979 become the lead- regional chain in the New York contributor to the community by as an International Manager and ing source of reliable statistics area. supporting more than 80 non- held a series of senior executive on information technology. At 1-800-Flowers.com was one profit organizations Ð many of positions before becoming IDG, McGovern has supervised of the first online retailers. which are education-focused Ð CEO. the launch of more than 300 Customers can send a wide vari- and donating more than 80,000 McDonagh was born and technology related magazines, ety of floral products by click- pounds of food per month. After raised in Dublin and received 450 websites and 1,200 confer- ing a mouse on a personal com- 85 years of successful business his Bachelor’s and Master’s ences and expositions in over 90 puter, walking into one of its growth, McClelland is proud of degrees from Trinity College. countries worldwide. stores, or by the family company’s ability to He is past Chairman of the In 2004 McGovern was dialing 1-800- thrive as one of the top five pri- Consumer Bankers Association, named one of the top FLOWERS. vately held Arizona-based com- a member of the Civic “Entrepreneurs We Love” by McCann is a panies. He, himself, serves as a Committee of the Commercial Inc. magazine. His other awards third-genera- role model for the philosophy he Club of Chicago, include the Henry Johnson tion Irish- instills in his company, by and a member of Fisher Lifetime Achievement American with actively supporting many chari- the Chicago Award from the Magazine roots in table, business and community Council on Publishers of America, and the Counties Armagh and Limerick. organizations including the Global Affairs. Top Innovator in Business He credits his love of story- University of Arizona, Barrow McDonagh is Publishing Award from BtoB telling to his Irish heritage, and Neurological Foundation, active in several Media Business magazine. In has three books to his name Goldwater Institute, Thomas J. USA/Ireland 2000, McGovern and his wife, including Stop and Sell the Pappus Elementary, Arizona organizations, including the Lore Harp McGovern, donated Roses, published in 1998. His State University, and the Irish New York Regional Board of $350 million to MIT to establish most recent book, A Year Full of Cultural & Learning Center. In the American Ireland Fund and the McGovern Institute for Flowers, was co-authored with homage to his Ulster roots, the USA Board of Co-operation Brain Research. McGovern, a his sister Julie Mulligan. McClelland is leading the Ireland. He resides in the graduate and trustee of MIT, McCann is married with three charge to create an 11,000- Chicago area with his wife and traces his Irish heritage to children. square-foot state-of-the-art their two children. Counties Cavan and Mayo. He library at the Phoenix Irish is married with four children. Cultural Center. Judy McGrath Thomas McInerney MTV ING Judy McGrath was promoted to chairman and CEO, Thomas J. McInerney is the Chairman & CEO of ING MTV Networks in July 2004. Previously, she was Insurance Americas and also serves on the ING Group MTV Networks Group President and was responsible Executive Board. He is responsible for ING’s wealth for MTV, MTV2, VH1, CMT, Comedy Central and management, retirement services, insurance and invest- LOGO, the first gay-themed cable channel. McGrath’s role includes ment businesses in the Americas, and also oversees the global coordi- overall responsibility for these networks and Nickelodeon, Nick at nation of ING Investment Management. McInerney was president of Nite, Spike TV, TV Land, Noggin, The N, MTV Digital Suite, MTV Aetna Financial Services and joined ING after they acquired Aetna Networks International and all of the company’s related consumer Financial in December 2000. products and digital businesses. Since McGrath joined MTV After graduating with honors from Colgate University in 1978 with a Network’s predecessor company in 1981, she has helped bring MTV Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, McInerney received a Master of from a maverick cable channel to a maverick global brand. Business Administration degree, with a concentration in Finance and The brainpower behind much of MTV’s most successful program- Investments, from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College ming ventures, including The Osbournes, The Real World and Total in 1982. Request Live, McGrath was also integral in launching shows like the A fourth-generation Irish-American with roots in Counties Clare and Emmy-winning Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central. Cork, McInerney’s great-grandparents, both maternal and paternal, Raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, she is married and lives with her came to the United States in the 1840’s and 50’s working on the rail- husband and daughter in New York City. roads in New Haven, the brass mills in Waterbury, and the cable mills in upstate New York.

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Business100 Andrew McKenna Thomas Meagher Joseph Moglia Thomas Moran Schwarz Grosvenor Capital TD Ameritrade Mutual of America Besides his role as chairman of Thomas Meagher is the Joseph Moglia is the Chairman of As Chairman, President and Schwarz Supply Source, an Managing Director of the Board of TD Ameritrade CEO of Mutual of America Ð international distributor of paper Grosvenor Capital Management Holding Corporation. Moglia one of the nation’s preeminent packaging and allied products, LP, a forerunner in the hedge joined TD Ameritrade in 2001 life insurance companies Ð Tom Andrew McKenna is also non- fund industry. Meagher joined after 17 years at Merrill Lynch, Moran is a familiar face in the executive chairman of Grosvenor in 2001 and is where he was a member of the business world. He began his McDonald’s Corporation. responsible for executive committees for both career with Additionally, he serves as a the firm’s busi- the institutional business and the Mutual in 1975 director of the AON Corporation ness develop- private client business. Before as a pension and the Chicago Bears Football ment. leaving, he was responsible for underwriter and Team and Skyline Corporation. Prior to join- all investment products, the in 1994 he Over the years, McKenna has ing the firm, insurance company, the 401(k) became the first served on many civic boards. He Meagher had business and the middle market CEO to emerge is a director of The American almost twenty business. from within its Ireland Fund, Children’s years of business experience, Prior to entering the financial ranks. He serves on many other Memorial Hospital of Chicago, starting with a job as the deputy services industry, Moglia was the boards including Aer Lingus, the Big Shoulders Fund of the director for the Illinois Housing defensive coordinator for the National Committee on Archdiocese of Chicago, The Development Authority. He is a Dartmouth College's football American Foreign Policy, the Ireland Economic Advisory member of the Economic Club team. In 2005, Moglia authored Smurfit Graduate School of Board and the Lyric Opera of of Chicago and serves on the Coach Yourself to Success: Business at UCD, and the Chicago. boards of Old St. Patrick’s Winning the Investment Game, American Cancer Society A graduate of Notre Dame Church of Chicago and the which explains the essential prin- Foundation. He is a member of with a B.S in International Board of Visitors ciples of investing through in- the Taoiseach’s Economic business from his alma mater, Texas depth insight and practical advice. Advisory Board, and serves as administration, Christian University, where he Moglia is a member of the chairman of Concern McKenna was received his Bachelor of board of directors of AXA Worldwide (U.S.). awarded the Business Administration in Financial, Inc., Moran has been awarded the university’s Marketing/Management. Creighton Calvary Medal, the Ellis Island Laetare Medal A third-generation Irish- University and Medal of Honor, the Terence in 2000. He American, Meagher traces his the National Cardinal Cooke Award, and has served as the chairman of the paternal roots to County Italian American received an honorary doctorate board of trustees from 1992- Limerick. Constantly in touch Foundation. in law from the National 2000 and continues on the board with his Irish heritage, he is the He holds a University of Ireland and an today. He is also a graduate of regional chairman of the master’s degree honorary doctorate of science the DePaul University Law American Ireland Fund in in secondary education from the from Queen’s University. A School where he received a Chicago. When asked what his University of Delaware and a native New Yorker, he earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence. Irish heritage means to him, he bachelor’s degree in economics B.S. from Manhattan College. A second-generation Irish- replied, “Always having your from Fordham University. He traces his Irish ancestors to American, McKenna has roots feet firmly planted on the Moglia is a first-generation County Fermanagh and County in Mayo and Monaghan. He and ground and maintaining one’s Irish-American whose mother is Tipperary, and lives in New his wife Joan have seven grown humility.” He and his wife, from Belfast. He is married with York City with his wife Joan. children and 23 grandchildren. Diane, live in Chicago. six children.

Sean Moriarty Brian T. Moynihan Ticketmaster Bank of America Sean Moriarty is the President and Chief Executive Brian T. Moynihan is president of Global Corporate Officer for Ticketmaster. He is responsible for opera- & Investment Banking and a member of the bank's sen- tional leadership of all aspects of Ticketmaster's ior management team. Moynihan has direct responsibil- worldwide business as well as global product and ity for the Bank of America private equity business, technology strategy and distribution channels across all business units LaSalle Global Trust Services, Enterprise Technology and Delivery, including the company’s subsidiary in Dublin. Legal, and Supply Chain Management. He also chairs Bank of Moriarty was an early member of the original Citysearch technology America's Global Diversity and Inclusion Council and is an executive team and served Ticketmaster's predecessor, Ticketmaster Online- champion of its Disabilities Affinity Group for Bank of America asso- Citysearch, as director of Internet Systems for Citysearch. He was vice ciates. Moynihan joined Bank of America in 2004 as the president of president of Internet Systems for both Citysearch and the Global Wealth and Investment Management Unit, following Bank Ticketmaster.com. Since 1997, Moriarty has held progressive roles in of America's merger with FleetBostonFinancial. At Fleet, which he the two companies, including executive vice president, technology for joined in 1993, he led Brokerage & Wealth Management after leading Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and president and chief operating Fleet's Internet strategy. Moynihan is a graduate of Brown University officer, Ticketmaster. and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He serves on the boards A third-generation Irish-American, Moriarty has “a deep personal of YouthBuild Boston and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston. A connection to Ireland’s mythic past, dynamic present, and promising fourth-generation Irish-American with roots in counties Cork and future.” His father’s ancestry can be traced to Dingle, Kerry, while his Kilkenny, Moynihan is a big fan of US and James Joyce and has visited mother’s family comes from Cork. Moriarty is married and has a two- Ireland four times, including one trip to play rugby in Dublin. He lives year-old daughter, Ella. in Wellesley, Massachusetts with his wife and three children.

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Business100 Alan Mulally Anne Mulcahy Michael Muldowney William Mullaney Ford Motor Company Xerox Corp Houghton Mifflin Metlife, Inc. President and CEO Alan Anne M. Mulcahy is As Executive Vice President and As president of MetLife’s Mulally joined Ford Motor Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer of Institutional Business segment, Company in September, 2006 Chief Executive Officer of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt William Mullaney oversees the where he also serves on the Xerox Corporation. It is the cul- Publishing Company, Michael section that provides a broad company’s Board of Directors. mination of a 30-year career Muldowney oversees the world’s range of benefit solutions to Prior to joining Ford he served with the corporation, providing largest K-12 educational pub- group customers in the United as Executive Vice President of high-value tech- lisher and its parent company, States. This The Boeing Company and CEO nologies, prod- Dublin-based Education Media group includes of Boeing Commercial ucts and solu- and Publishing Group Ltd. The 88 of the top one Airplanes where he was named tions, document recipient of the largest grant ever hundred Fortune President in 1998. systems and to be issued by Enterprise 500 companies. Recognized throughout his services to busi- Ireland, Houghton Mifflin now In his previous career for his industry leader- ness managers has the funds to expand its digital role as president ship, Mulally was named worldwide. product research and develop- of MetLife Auto “Person of the Year” in 2006 by Mulcahy joined the company ment center in Dublin. The com- & Home, Mullaney oversaw Aviation Week magazine and in 1976 as a sales representative pany expects to create up to 400 Auto & Home’s operations one of the “Best Leaders of and held various sales and sen- new research and development including development and dis- 2005” by Business Week. ior management positions. technology jobs in the Dublin tribution of all of MetLife’s Mulally holds both a B.A. and Named Vice President for area over the next five years. property and casualty products. an M.S. in aeronautical and Human Resources in 1992, A graduate of St. Ambrose Under his leadership the com- astronautical engineering from Senior Vice President in 1998 University, Muldowney received pany delivered record operating the University of Kansas. He has and Executive Vice President in his B.A in accounting. He is an earnings and distinguished itself also earned a 1999, in 2000 she was elected active trustee in a number of for quick and compassionate master’s in President and COO. Finally in non-profit organizations includ- response to customers affected management August 2001 she was named ing the Adopt-a-Student by some of the worst hurricanes from the CEO of Xerox and chairman on Foundation; a Boston-based in the history of the United Massachusetts Jan 1, 2002. In addition to the inner city States. Institute of Xerox board, Mulcahy is a Catholic high A graduate of the University Technology and member of the boards of direc- school serving of Pittsburgh, Mullaney was a 1982 tors of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., economically received an M.B.A. from Pace Alfred P. Sloan fellow. Fuji Xerox Company, Ltd., disadvantaged University. He was also honored He has sat on the advisory Target Corporation, the youth. with a chartered life underwriter boards of NASA, the University Washington Post Company and In the early designation from The American of Washington, the University of is the chairman of the corporate 1920s all four of College. A proud first-genera- Kansas, Massachusetts Institute governance task force of the Muldowney’s grandparents emi- tion Irish-American whose fam- of Technology and the U.S. Air Business Roundtable. grated to Chicago, making him a ily hail from Counties Force Scientific Advisory Board. Born in Rockville Centre, second-generation Irish- Roscommon and Cork, With a surname derived from the New York, Mulcahy holds a American. On his father’s side Mullaney is married with two native Gaelic O’Maolalaidh, B.A. in English/Journalism from his grandparents hailed from children. Mulally’s Irish roots can be Marymount Manhattan College. Foxford, County Mayo and his traced to the western counties, A second-generation Irish- maternal grandfather and grand- Galway in particular. American, she traces her roots mother were from Ennis and to Counties Cavan and Mayo. Mayo, respectively. Kathleen Murphy Matt Murphy ING Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Kathleen Murphy is Chief Executive Officer of ING Matt Murphy is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield U.S. Wealth Management. Her responsibilities include & Byers. He joined the venture capital company in leading the Retirement Services and Retail Annuity 1999 and manages the iFund at KPCB, a collaborative businesses of ING, with pretax earnings in 2007 of over initiative with Apple and the iPhone platform, which $1 billion, as well as ING’s Broker Dealer network, which is one of the focuses on defining applications for the mobile Internet. largest independent broker dealer systems in the country. As CEO, Prior to KPCB, Murphy led product management at a semiconduc- Murphy is charged with leading thousands of employees and well over tor start-up (Netboost acquired by Intel), worked at Sun Microsystems one hundred and fifty thousand distribution partners to drive growth and where he led business development for the Network Systems Group value creation while continually enhancing the company’s competitive and was a Product Line Manager for networking platforms. positioning. Murphy joined ING in 2000, after ING’s acquisition of Murphy holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University Aetna Financial Services. Prior to this acquisition, she served as General and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Aetna. Murphy holds a Juris Matt is married with two sons. A fourth-generation Irish-American Doctorate degree with highest honors from the University of Connecticut, whose father’s family comes from Galway, Murphy is “proud to be and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Irish. It’s a hardworking, friendly, and loyal culture. These are very Economics and Political Science from Fairfield University. She is a important values to live by.” third-generation Irish-American – her father Charles Murphy’s family hailed from Cork, while her mother Christine Connor’s family were orig- inally from Kerry. She is married to George Hornyak and has a six-year- old son Jack.

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Business100 Martin Naughton Thomas O’Brien Emmett O’Connell Kevin O’Leary Glen Dimplex State Bank Great Western Mining QUMAS Martin Naughton is the founder Thomas M. O’Brien is President Corporation Kevin O’Leary is the Chief and chairman of the Glen and Chief Executive Officer of Emmett O’Connell is Chairman Executive Officer of QUMAS, Dimplex Group. He started the State Bank of Long Island and of the Great Western Mining one of Ireland’s leading soft- company in 1973 as Glen State Bancorp, Inc. Prior to Corporation, an Irish mineral ware companies. He has been Electric, with a mere ten joining State Bank, O’Brien was company based in Nevada with with the company since its employees, later acquiring President and Chief Executive headquarters in Dublin. As of inception and was responsible Dimplex, the leading brand in Officer of July 2008, the corporation now for the design of the U.K. heating market. Atlantic Bank of holds 89 claims in Nevada. the company’s An engineer by profession, New York until A promoter and investor of first product Naughton has overseen his com- its sale in 2006. technology and exploration com- release. pany’s growth to become the O’Brien panies for over thirty years, Born in world’s largest manufacturer in began his bank- O’Connell has acted as County Cork, domestic heating appliances. ing career in founder/director of several other Ireland, O’Leary A longtime supporter of the 1977 at North companies, including Eglington studied University of Notre Dame, in Side Savings Bank in New York Exploration plc, Osceola Computer Science at Cork IT both a civic and philanthropic City, where he was appointed Hydrocarbons and Bryson Oil and later went on to study manner, Naughton was honored CEO at age 33. In 2000, he and Gas plc., among others. Industrial Management through by the university in 2006 by joined Atlantic Bank of New O’Connell’s career has taken the Federation of European renaming their Institute for Irish York as President and CEO and him to several countries on five Production & Industrial Studies as the Keough- member of its Board of continents. Most notably, he has Management Societies. Naughton Institute for Irish Directors. been involved with highly suc- In 2006, QUMAS was named Studies (Donald Keough, O’Brien is an Independent cessful public companies quoted Company of the Year by the another of our Trustee for Prudential Insurance on the London, Dublin and Irish Software Association. Business 100, Company’s $65 billion insur- Vancouver Stock Exchanges. In Then, in 2007, QUMAS was was the original ance mutual fund complex, a April 2008 the London PLUS named as a visionary in the GRC benefactor of Trustee for Catholic Healthcare market awarded Great Western Magic Quadrant by Gartner. the Institute). System of New York and the Mining Corp the O’Leary splits his time Naughton has Catholic Healthcare Foundation, best stock award between his home in Cork and served on Notre Inc., and a Trustee for Niagara for the continued the QUMAS office in New Dame’s Board University. He is presently the investing and Jersey. He continues to take of Directors since 1991. He co- 1st Vice President of the Society expansion of the pride in the strong link that founded the university’s Ireland of the Friendly Sons of Saint company’s North exists between Ireland and the Council, and received an hon- Patrick in New York, and also American min- US, and says, “I am very proud orary Doctor of Science in 1998. founded the Galway Bay eral resources. to be Irish, but I am equally He is chairman of InterTrade- Foundation, Inc. He was inducted as a Knight of proud of my connections to the Ireland, a cross-border and busi- O’Brien holds a B.A. from St. Gregory in the Vatican in US and what we in QUMAS ness trade group, and has been Niagara University, an M.B.A. 1986. O’Connell lives on a farm have achieved in terms of build- extremely active in promoting from Iona College. His father’s in Wexford with his wife of 47 ing a world-leading firm that is peace in Ireland through eco- Irish heritage lies in Clare and years. He has three children and focused on the US while main- nomic ties. Naughton resides in his mother’s in Galway. O’Brien six grandchildren. taining its roots in Ireland.” County Meath. is married with three children. O’Leary, 43, is married with three children, two of whom were born in the US. Robert O’Leary Brian O’Malley Cox Enterprises Domino Foods Bob O’Leary recently retired as executive vice presi- Brian O’Malley was appointed President and CEO of dent and CEO of Cox Enterprises, Inc., one of the Domino Foods, Inc. in 2001. His career in the sugar nation’s leading media companies. He was responsi- industry started in February 1982 when he joined the ble for the company’s treasury, financial reporting, tax accounting department of then Amstar Corporation and audit functions. He now serves on the board of directors at Cox. (former parent of Domino Sugar). O’Leary joined Cox in 1982 as vice president of finance for Cox O’Malley holds an undergraduate degree in Finance from Glassboro Cable Communications (now Cox Communications, Inc). Working his State College and an MBA in Finance from Rutgers University. He is way through the ranks, O’Leary became executive vice president and Vice Chairman of the Chairman’s Advisory Council of The Grocery chief financial officer in December 1999. Manufacturers Association and President of the International Sugar A second-generation Irish-American, O’Leary, who was born in Club for 2008. He resides in Middletown, NJ with his wife Maureen Boston, traces his roots to Cork on his father’s side and Armagh on his and three children (Erin, Michael and Kevin). mother’s. He is a frequent visitor to Ireland on family trips as well as O’Malley is a first-generation Irish American whose father’s family golfing expeditions. A magna cum laude graduate of Boston College hails from Knocknahila and Clare and whose mother’s family has roots with a bachelor’s degree in economics, he also holds a master’s degree in Galway and Tuam. O’Malley says, “As an Irish Catholic, my father in administration from Boston College’s Carroll School of taught me about the sanctity of the mass, about the responsibility to Management. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and three chil- work hard and the importance of leadership in the family, at your busi- dren, and serves on the board of directors of the Georgia Chapter of the ness and in your community.” National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

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Business100 Barbara Kane O’Neill James Quinn Kevin Ryan William Ryan Greenwich Equity Group Tiffany & Co. AlleyCorp. TD Banknorth Barbara O’Neill is Vice James Quinn has been President Kevin Ryan is CEO of William J. Ryan is Chairman of President of the Greenwich of Tiffany & Co. since February, AlleyCorp., a New York-based the Board of TD Banknorth Inc. Equity Group, a private portfo- 2003. He began his career with startup advisory network that Until March of 2007, Ryan also lio management company, and the internationally renowned includes Music Nation, Panther held the positions of President President of WhitneyFullerton, jeweler and specialty retailer in Express, Silicon Alley Insider and Chief Executive Officer. LLC a newly formed interna- 1986 when he was appointed and ShopWiki. Previously, from Ryan joined TD Banknorth in tional communication company. Vice President. 1996-2005, first as President Portland, Maine She has over 30 years busi- In his current and later CEO, Ryan helped in 1989. He ness experience in fundraising, role, he is build DoubleClick from a turned the failing real estate development, invest- responsible for startup of 20 people to a very bank around, ments, airline travel and restau- Tiffany’s retail, profitable global leader with and over the past rant business. She worked corporate and more than 1500 employees. 19 years it has closely with her husband, the direct marketing During his tenure, Silicon grown to late Terry O’Neill, running over sales network. Alley Reporter named become the 12th 30 restaurants in New York and For the year end on January 31, DoubleClick “New York largest bank in America. In 2004 the United States. O'Neill is a 2006, Tiffany reported an 11 Company of the Year” and he Forbes magazine picked TD Founder and former President of percent rise in revenues to over was named one of the “50 Most Banknorth as the Best Managed The Knights of St. Patrick, and 2.5 billion. Influential Business People” by Bank in America. former President of The Friends Quinn serves on the board of Crain’s New York Business. Ryan serves as a Director and Of Fianna Fail in the U.S. Mutual of America Capital Ryan was an early investor Vice Chairman of TD Bank A recipient of numerous hon- Management and BNY and board member of HotJobs, Financial Group, as well as the ors including Dame of Malta Hamilton Funds, Inc. He is which was sold to Yahoo! in Group Head of U.S. Personal and Lady of the chairman of New York’s 5th 2002. He is on the board of and Commercial Banking. He is Holy Ave. Association, Vice Human Rights Watch and is a a Director of WellPoint, Inc. and Sepulchre, she Chairman and trustee of the member of the Insead Unum Corporation, and serves has been named Museum of the City of New International Council, Yale as a Trustee of Colby College “Woman of the York, serves on the North International and the Libra Foundation. He is Year” by the American advisory board of the Council and the also on the Board of Advisors at Foundling Smurfit School of Business at Council on the University of New England. Hospital, University College Dublin and Foreign Ryan is a graduate of St. Longford Society and Grand is a member of An Taoiseach’s Relations. Francis College in New York Council of the Emerald economic advisory board. A Born in and the Stonier Graduate School Societies. She received a mas- graduate of Hofstra University, Milwaukee, of Banking at Rutgers ter’s of science in Foreign Quinn received his M.B.A from Ryan, a fourth- University. Service from Georgetown Pace University. Quinn, who is generation Irish-American, Ryan, a second-generation University. O’Neill is a first-gen- married to Diane, with two chil- traces his Irish roots to Counties Irish-American, lives with his eration Irish-American whose dren, traces his Irish roots to Clare and Cork. wife Peg and their four children father came from Drumlish, Co. Counties Offaly and Westmeath He received a B.A. from Yale in Falmouth, Maine. Longford and mother Mary on his father’s side, and County University and an M.B.A. from McWilliams hailed from Kerry on his mother’s side. All Insead, and is married with Swatragh, Co. Derry. O’Neill four of his grandparents were three children. resides in Rye, New York. from Ireland.

John Sharkey Margaret Smyth Kane, Saunders & Smart United Technologies John Sharkey is Chairman and CEO of Kane, Saunders Margaret M. Smyth joined United Technologies in & Smart. In 1986, he joined MCI Communications 2007 as its Vice President and Controller. In this role, Corporation to create and implement a Corporate she is responsible for many of the global finance func- Accounts Division, later expanding it into the Multi- tions for this $60 billion, Dow 30 diversified company National/Global Accounts Division. Company revenues grew from $2 bil- that provides high technology products and services to the building and lion to $31 billion over the next thirteen years, with Sharkey retiring in aerospace industries. 2000 upon the completion of the MCI and WorldCom merger. Prior to Prior to her current position, Smyth was Vice President and Chief MCI, he was with Litton Industries, the General Electric Company, and Accounting Officer of 3M and a senior partner at two leading global the ROLM Corporation. He is a board member of Belfast’s FLAX Trust, accounting and professional services firms in New York City. Smyth The American Ireland Fund and Glucksman House at New York earned her undergraduate degree in economics from Fordham University. Sharkey also serves on the North America Advisory Board of University, and her master’s degree in accounting from NYU Leonard UCD Michael Smurfit Business School. A recipient of numerous acco- N. Stern School of Business, graduating summa cum laude from both. lades, Sharkey has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the She currently serves as a Director for Concern Worldwide (U.S.) and HeartShare Human Services ‘Man of the Year,’ the Lou Gehrig Fordham University. Smyth is also a member of IFRIC, the interpreta- Humanitarian Award for ‘the Communication Independence for the tions group of the International Accounting Standards Board, as well as Neurologically Impaired,’ and the St. Patrick’s Home Humanitarian on the Board of Directors of Mutual of America Investment Award. The grandson of Tyrone and Roscommon natives, Sharkey was Corporation. A second-generation Irish-American and an Irish citizen, born in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. He and his wife Helen have two Smyth is married and has two sons. The Smyths reside in West children, Brian John and Jacqueline. Hartford, CT and have a second home in County Roscommon.

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Business100 Brian Stack Ted Sullivan Dennis Swanson Anne Sweeney CIE Tours KPMG LLP Fox Television Stations ABC Brian W. Stack was recently Ted Maurice Sullivan is a man- Group Being named one of the “50 Most named Managing Director of aging director at KPMG LLP, Dennis Swanson became Powerful Women in Business” by CIE Tours International and is and serves some of the firm’s President of Station Operations, Fortune magazine and one of responsible for the worldwide largest advisory clients in the Fox Television Stations, Inc. in “The World’s 100 Most Powerful operations of CIE Tours. In the Southeast. KPMG LLP, the 2005. In this role he helps man- Women,” by Forbes comes natu- 17 years he spent as head of CIE audit, tax and advisory firm age the 27 Fox-owned-and-oper- rally to Anne Sweeney. As co- Tours International in North (www.us.kpmg.com), is the U.S. ated stations across the country. chairman of Media Networks, The America, the company has member firm of Before working for Fox, he was Walt Disney Co., and President of grown to be Ireland’s leading KPMG the Executive Vice President and the Disney-ABC Television tour operator. Prior to that, International. COO of the Viacom Television Group, Sweeney Brian worked as vice president Since joining Stations Group. has risen through of Marketing at the Ocean Reef KPMG in 1999, In his previous capacity, as the ranks of tele- Club and in 1989 he founded Sullivan has head of WNBC Channel 4 in vision. Stack International, a New worked in the New York, Swanson was named Sweeney is a York-based specialist marketing advisory prac- "Broadcaster of the Year” by recipient of the service for the hotel and travel tice, primarily servicing Broadcasting & Cable, an indus- Cable Television industry before joining CIE in telecommunications and media try trade publication. Swanson Public Affairs 1990. His awards include “Man clients. He currently leads a has received recognition through- Association’s President’s Award, of the Year” from the Incentive team of senior client service out his career, including the the Golden Mike Award for Travel Industry, and executives in the Southeast George Foster Peabody Award Outstanding Contributions to “International Executive of the region. and the Ellis Island Medal of Broadcasting by the Broadcasters Year” by the World Congress on Sullivan traces his mother’s Honor. He was recently re-elected Foundation of America and, in Marketing and ancestors to County Tyrone, and chairman of the board of trustees April, received the Matrix Award Incentive his father’s to County Cork. He of the National Academy of for television from New York Travel. He has is a founding member of the Television Arts and Sciences and Women in Communications, Inc. also served a Metro Atlanta Police Emerald he is the President-elect of the Sweeney, who earned a B.A. two-year term Society and has served as the Ireland-U.S. council where he has from the College of New as President of Georgia president of the Ancient been serving as Vice President. Rochelle and an Ed.M. from SITE (Society Order of Hibernians. He has Born in California, Swanson Harvard, traces her Irish roots to of Incentive served twice as parade chairman was raised in Counties Meath, Kerry and Travel Executives). A native of of the Atlanta St. Patrick’s Day Springfield, Mayo. Dublin, Stack was the first Parade and was the parade’s Illinois, and Sweeney was elected a Irishman as well as the first honorary Grand Marshal in earned an MS Director of the International European to join the society. 2005. Sullivan visits Ireland from the Council of the National Academy He is vice president and board every year to reconnect with University of of Television Arts and Sciences member of the Ireland-US friends in Navan, Cork, and the Illinois in in March 2001. In October 2007, Council, and a director of the North of Ireland, where he has Champaign- she was inducted into the Cable Irish American Cultural participated in various political Urbana. He traces his Irish Hall of Fame, and also received Institute. Stack is married to forums. He holds a B.S. in ancestry to County Mayo. His the Committee of 200’s Ann-Marie and has two grown Finance from Troy University. great-grandfather emigrated dur- Luminary Award. children. He and his wife Sara reside in ing the famine in 1848. Swanson Sweeney and husband, Philip Atlanta. is married with three children Millier, live with their two chil- and nine grandchildren. dren in Los Angeles. John Tynan Susan Ungaro TynanGroup Inc. James Beard Foundation John P. Tynan is the president and founder of As President of the James Beard Foundation, an organi- TynanGroup, Inc., a Santa Barbara, California based zation dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and nurtur- holding company for multiple business ventures. ing America's culinary heritage, Susan Kelliher Ungaro These include Medbridge Development Inc., Tg hopes to expand the foundation’s culinary scholarship Hospitality, AnchorPoint and numerous real estate partnerships. program, and increase its membership base and promotion on a Tynan leads one of the fastest growing companies in the nation, national level. appearing at #58 on Inc. magazine’s top 500 list. Prior to founding Before joining the Beard Foundation in April, 2006, she was editor- TynanGroup in 1991, he spent nearly a decade managing the construc- in-chief of the much-loved Family Circle magazine. tion of luxury resort and hotel projects for Hyatt Development A former Irish America Keynote Speaker, Ungaro’s many honors Corporation as Vice-President of Planning and Construction. include the William Paterson University Legacy Award, and the NOW Tynan holds a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from the Legal Defense and Education Fund Muriel Fox communication award. University of Illinois and an MBA in finance from DePaul University. She was also honored by President Reagan’s Office for Consumer He currently serves on the University of Notre Dame’s Ireland Affairs for her “outstanding contribution to increasing consumer Advisory Council. awareness in America.” Tynan is a third-generation Irish-American with roots in Clare, She is a first-generation Irish-American. Both her father, Thomas Mayo and Cork. He says that his Irish heritage “links me to my family Gerard Kelliher, and her mother, the former Mary Christina Brosnan, and the past while at the same time giving meaning to the present and were born in Castlegregory, County Kerry. She lives in New Jersey future by inspiring me to help people who struggle.” Tynan is married with her husband and three children, and has visited Ireland four times. with two children.

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The Irish Oil Man Continued from page 41 of the coastline of the United States is off limits to oil and gas. Now, the moratorium was actually lifted in September because Congress did not choose to extend it. So now it [exploration] is potentially open again. But before we can [explore], there still has to be a process by the Department of Interior to actually identify and award leases, and a filing process so that people can bid on the leases and then do the THOMAS JOHN GIBBONS PHOTO BY: exploration work, and if they find some- thing then produce the oil. There are a lot of steps that have to be taken to move for- ward from where we are. But at least the moratorium has been lifted.

There was also talk about taxing oil companies’ profits. What we would like to do is invest more. And to do that, you need to create the November 6, 2008: O’Reilly receives the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship from Ambassador Joseph B. Gildenhorn, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Woodrow Wilson Center (left), opportunity for investors. And adding and Ambassador Frederick M. Bush, Associate Director, Woodrow Wilson Center (right). taxes on an industry that’s already highly taxed – we’re already much more highly plans Ð not like the mess that you see in the rockets from here in Dublin as they’re taxed than any other business, and paying Wall Street or in some of these other coming. [Chuckles]. I’ll always remem- much higher taxes as a percent of our places. So this is an industry that a coun- ber that. You have to be very aware of income than other business. So increasing try needs to be proud of and recognize the what’s going on. Right now, in the last six taxes further just takes away money that value that it creates. Not just the value for months, all anyone’s been talking about could be used for investing. And we’ve shareholders, but the employment we cre- in Ireland have been two things Ð house done this before. We had what were ate, the energy we supply, it’s a good prices, which are going down, and the called profit taxes in the early eighties. thing. [The oil industry] shouldn’t be vil- [American] election. Congress went back and studied the ified like it has been because it’s conven- impact of those windfall [profit] taxes, ient to do so. What would your advice and what it found out was that it acceler- be toward the Irish now that ated the decline in oil and gas production Ireland has potential reserves they are facing a downturn in the U.S. It made us even more depend- of 10 billion barrels of oil in in the economy? ent on imports. So it had exactly the the North Atlantic, but they They have gone through 20 years of wrong impact. We want to be a country are difficult to develop.Would almost incredible economic growth. What where we’re less dependent on foreign oil Chevron be interested in brought about that growth? It was open and more independent Ð able to produce taking on the challenge? markets, it was labor flexibility, and it more of our own energy here in the Well, we are exploring in the North [Sea], was investment in education. There were United States. and they’re producing oil in the North a lot of things that were fundamental to So taxing more is the wrong answer. [Sea]. We have nothing currently in the that growth. I think it would be a big mis- Opening up more opportunity for invest- coastal area off Ireland. take to say, “Well now, we need to do ment has the advantage of not only pro- something completely different.” ducing more energy domestically, but it It’s a possibility? The cause of the setbacks in Ireland has also creates jobs, when you think about it. Yes. It’s all possible. We’re a big opera- been too much focus and too much You go down to the Gulf of Mexico and tion, you know. North America obviously, money chasing into real estate. That’s the look at where we’re producing oil and gas Central Asia, Latin America, Asian issue. Property values got inflated. That today and look at all the high-quality jobs Pacific, Africa Ð needs to be corrected. And that could be that we’ve created. There are well-paid helped by better lending practices, just engineers, we’ve got mechanics, opera- How did growing up on like it could be corrected here [in the tors, we’ve got a whole supply chain of the small island of Ireland States]. They’re going to have to live people that are involved in our business Ð affect your worldview? through that transition. But it should tell tens of thousands of people that are One thing about growing up in a small everybody how important it is to continue employed for Chevron alone in that area. place is it makes you completely aware of to diversify the economy so that it’s not There are 1.8 million people employed in what’s going on in the world because you so property value focused. But a lot of the industry in the United States directly, have no choice. I’ll always remember the things have been done right, and they and another four million indirectly. night of the Cuban Missile Crisis – I’ll shouldn’t lose sight of that. That’s six million jobs. And most of never forget that. Just sitting there won- What is Poland doing today? It’s doing those jobs are very high-quality jobs, with dering if these two countries start shoot- what Ireland did 20 years ago. And so, good pay, good benefits, funded pension ing rockets at each other, if we could see what has to happen, Ireland has to contin-

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ue to move up the scale of [higher value] administration and the Congress are going Angola, we’ve helped reinvigorate the work. A lot of the lower value work has to have to take a long-term view. If they central highlands that had been gutted by already moved away. It’s no longer a try to manage this by making short-term civil war in 2001. Angola’s got tremen- country for call centers and all that sort of changes back and forth every year or two, dous agricultural potential and it had been stuff. It’s higher value and you can only we’ll never get there. absolutely decimated. By working with do that if you have a competent, well- World Vision and USAID, we were able trained, and flexible workforce. And One of your catch phrases to reengage two million people out of a keeping the corporate taxes low to be is “getting results the right population of 13 million back into the competitive so that Ireland is an attractive way.” Can you explain? agricultural sector. place to invest. That’s really what Chevron is about. In Indonesia we just opened up a big We’re a business organization, so our pri- Polytechnic Institute in a province that had Any advice for President-elect mary role is to invest, employ, produce been decimated by the tsunami. We’ve Obama? goods, make money so that the investors trained thousands of people. We had I think getting the economy right is prob- in our business garner a reasonable already built an institution in Pekanbaru. ably the number one priority for Obama. return. However, one of the things we Why do we do that? Well, these people are Getting energy right is an important issue want to do is add value to the communi- going to be employed by our company, by too. And it’s not a short-term issue. You ties in which we operate. And in some our suppliers and our business partners. So have to have policies that are sensible, places, it’s almost essential to do that so it’s good for our business, but it’s a tremen- and then stick with them for a long term that you have a sound base from which to dous benefit to the local community. I’m because, you know, changing the energy draw employees, suppliers, or whatever. very proud of our organization. I can’t even system in any meaningful way isn’t In Angola, AIDS transmission from keep track of all the things that they do, but gonna happen overnight. It takes mother to child was a big issue. With our we’ve had some very great successes in decades. involvement in the health care system, community engagement. I’m getting this The investments that we make are not there hasn’t been a case of that in the last award [the Woodrow Wilson Award], but for just next year, they are investments for two years. The blood bank has gone from certainly the company’s getting it more. I the long haul. So, we have to take a long- being 10 percent contaminated to minute just happen to be in the lucky position of term view, and I think that the incoming levels of contamination. In another part of being the leader of the company. IA

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