Aaron Rogan is deputy editor of the Business Post, driving the company’s strategy and editorial content. An award winning journalist who has specialised in business coverage throughout his career, he is also the author of Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever.  

Gillian Nelis has held a variety of roles with the Business Post group, including property editor and deputy editor. A journalist with over 25 years experience, she is currently the Business Post’s managing editor, and is heavily involved in the company’s digital transformation agenda. 

She has a particular interest in the food, tourism and hospitality sectors, writing the paper’s weekly restaurant reviews and editing Food&Wine Ireland, which is published monthly. Gillian is the host of the food podcast Plate, and chair of the judging panel for the Food&Wine Restaurant of the Year awards. 

Barry Guiney is a partner at global executive search and leadership advisory firm Odgers Berndtson in Ireland. He has more than 20 years’ senior executive experience in the technology sector.

He is at the core of Scale Up Collective in Ireland having spent more than a decade of his career specifically working in investor-led businesses, such as Digisoft.tv, Bluemetrix, Xanadu Consultancy. Through his intimate knowledge of the steps to scale, Barry has developed the implicit ability to recognise growth expertise combined with operational excellence in leaders. 

Geraldine King is Chief Executive at The Employment & Recruitment Federation (ERF) and a board member of The World Employment Confederation (WEC).

Geraldine is a regular contributor to media on the labour markets and a conference speaker and is passionate about educating the recruitment profession. Her beliefs and vision are that the recruitment sector should have a full academic career path to retain and attract talent and has been instrumental in the success of the award of the first undergraduate 3 year degree apprenticeship programme for recruiters in partnership with the National College of Ireland. She developed the only certificate programme for recruiters for Irish recruiters and has successfully led the ERF to obtain their own Skillnet.

A visionary leader, Geraldine is passionate about realising the potential of her people and offering her team opportunities to develop and thrive. She fundamentally believes that people are the foundation of success.

She is listed for the 6th year running in Staffing Industry Analysts top 100 EU leaders and in the top 150 Global power Women. She is a regular Global awards adjudicator in the business arena.

Daniel McConnell has been editor of the Business Post since early 2023, and leads the company’s editorial strategy. A multi-award winning journalist, he was political editor of the Irish Examiner for many years, where he made his reputation as one of Ireland’s foremost political commentators. 

A regular contributor to radio and television shows, Daniel is also the co-author of Hell at the Gates: The Inside Story of Ireland’s Financial Downfall. 

Charlie Taylor is Ireland’s leading technology reporter, regularly breaking news stories on the sector and providing incisive analysis on trends both local and international. He is the editor of Connected, the Business Post’s monthly technology magazine, and is a regular contributor at tech events around the country. 

A former award-winning communications consultant, Martina Byrne is chief executive of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland, the representative body of communications professionals in the public and private sectors.  

An experienced leader with over 30 years’ working with national and multinational organisations, Martina’s commitment to lifelong learning led her to return to university as a mature student and gain a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin where she later lectured. 

She also gained valuable research experience during her time with the ESRI, and she has a certificate in company secretarial law.

Catherine Welch is the chair of strategic management at Trinity College Dublin and the director of research at Trinity Business School. Prior to joining Trinity, she was a professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. 

Catherine’s research centres on the international strategies of firms and the pathways they take to expand in global markets. She has a particular interest in the internationalisation of high-technology, science-based firms seeking to bring radical innovations to global markets. 

Charley Stoney has been CEO of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI), the body for the commercial creativity and communications industry in Ireland, for the last two years. 

She is a board member of the European Association of Communication Agencies, where she chairs the national associations committee across 20+ European regions, a board member of the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland, and a board member and joint CEO of the Central Copy Clearance in Ireland.

Prior to IAPI,  Charley held managing director roles in marketing and advertising within the marketing talent business Alternatives, the leading field marketing agency FMI Ltd, and the marketing services agency McConnells Fusion. 

Daniel Murray is policy editor of the Business Post, having taken up the role this year after several years as the company’s political correspondent. He has traditionally focused his reporting on environmental issues and has broken many stories in that field. 

He is the host of Five Degrees of Change, the Business Post’s energy and environment podcast, where he speaks with leading experts in the fields of environmental science and climate change about the policy and personal changes they would make for a greener world. Daniel is the current Newsbrands Ireland political journalist of the year.

In her role as markets correspondent for the Business Post, Kathleen Gallagher covers market trends, economics, investor preferences and their impact on businesses. An award-winning journalist and communications specialist, she has spent over ten years covering and working in the financial services sector.  

Kathleen has previously worked in the US and UK for Citywire, Investment Week and part of the Financial Times group.

Martin Curley is professor of Innovation at Maynooth University, and director of the digital health ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute at the university. He is a former chief information officer and director of digital transformation for the Health Service Executive, and a former senior vice president at Mastercard and head of its global digital practice. 

Martin has been identified as a top ten global influential, inspiring and impactful health leader/educator by a number of international publications, and was awarded the title of European Chief Technology Officer of the year in 2015.