Shortlist 2019
A list of all the shortlists for each award category this year
Shortlist
Advocate of the Year
Dr Michelle Cullen – Accenture in Ireland
Severine Lacaze – Bloomberg
Sinead O Reilly & Barbara Quinn – Ericsson
Coral Movasseli – Girls in Tech Dublin
Laura Fitzgerald – Red Hat
Brenda Romero – Romero Games
Laura Lacarra Arcos – Telefónica
Anne Kiely – Twitter
Gerry Murphy – VMware International Ltd
Tim Hynes – AIB
Business Leader of the Year
Vicky Godolphin – Accenture in Ireland
Michelle Boylan – Bank of Ireland
Barbara Hughes – (formerly at Bloomberg PolarLake)
Brid Quigley – Irish Life
Maebh Costello – McKesson
Laura Farrell – Zurich Technology Hub
Business Role Model of the Year
Medb Corcoran – Accenture in Ireland
Marica Pezzi – Bloomberg PolarLake
Deirdre Giblin – Ericsson
Louise Bernstein – HubSpot
Sarah Cunningham – Mastercard
Helen Coughlan – Oracle
Jennifer Cox – Tenable
Tania Lee – Vodafone Ireland
CIO of the Year
Michelle Kearns – CareDoc
Lorraine McNerney – Ordnance Survey Ireland
Data Leader of the Year
Orla Leane – AIB
Hilary Delany – Bank of Ireland
Róisín Flannery – Bloomberg PolarLake Ltd
Catherine Boothman – Citi Innovation Lab
Grainne Cassidy – LM Ericsson Ireland Ltd.
Dina Medhat – Microsoft
Louise Dillon – Vodafone Ireland
Digital Leader of the Year
Cliodhna Nerney – AIB
Marcella Flood – Allianz Partners
Jenny Armstrong – Diageo
Maria O’Loughlin – Health Service Executive
Vida Kazlauskaite – K-Star Academy
Jacinta Walker – Qualtrics
Eva Lynch – Vodafone Ireland
Employer of the Year
Accenture in Ireland
AIB
Bank of America
Bank of Ireland
Ericsson
McKesson
Entrepreneur of the Year
Darya Yegorina – CleverBooks
Fidelma McGuirk – Payslip
Aileen Carville – SKMMP
E-skills Initiative of the Year
McKesson
Vodafone Ireland
Future CIO of the Year
Deirdre Scallan – Bank of Ireland
Arlene Ennis – Citi
Ellen Ward – Concern Worldwide
Ciara Tobin – Mercer
Aisling Hannigan – Pramerica
Regina Barr – Pramerica
Innovator of the Year
Bank of Ireland
McKesson
Payslip
Tenable
Rising Star of the Year
Qurrat Ul Ain – Accenture’s The Dock
Tracy Keogh – Bank of Ireland and Grow Remote
Dara Casey – Canada Life Europe
Lu Yang – Citi
Aine Usher – Ericsson
Roisin Cleary – Pramerica
Brid Mackey – Red Hat
Nicole Lisizki – Salesforce
Security Champion of the Year
Gina Dollard – AIB
Máire Regan – Energia Generation
Nishu Malhotra – Fiserv
Barbara Bogdanescu – Logicalis Ireland
Naomi Hegarty – Pramerica
Hanim Eken – Sun Life Financial
Kelly McKillen – Truata
Emer O’Neill – VMware Inc.
Edel Briody – Vodafone Ireland
Helen Barron – Zurich Technology Hub
Transformation Leader of the Year
Noeleen Butler – AIB
Angela Bergin – Global Payments
Sheila Kelly – ICON plc
Clodagh Moriarty – Oracle
Shahla Sabetnia – RCSI
Nano Gough – Red Hat
Ruth Kennedy – Revenue Commissioners
Nicole McBrien – Zurich Technology Hub
Woman of the Year
Paula Neary – Accenture in Ireland
Marcella Flood – Allianz Partners
Barbara McCarthy – Ding
Andrea McBride – Pramerica
Karen Egan – VMware
Young Leader of the Year
Caoimhe Kennedy – Citi
Niamh O’Connell – Treum | ConsenSys
Sowmya Halappa – Ericsson
Julie O’Brien – Global Payments
Nina Levchuk – Google
Paula Corcoran – Vodafone Ireland
Talita Holzer – waytoB Ltd.
Patricia Duchene – Wrike