Business Movers 

New roles: (top row, left to right) Deirdre O’Carroll, Professor Dan Kilper, Sarah Thompson; (bottom row) John Kelly, Gary Colton, Alastair McBain.

Here is a selection of people starting new roles with Irish Distillers, Connect, Arthur Cox, Belfast Distillery Company, IPG Mediabrands and PetroNeft.

Deirdre O’Carroll has been appointed as a blender at Jameson whiskey producer Irish Distillers, working with master blender Billy Leighton in Midleton Distillery, Co Cork. She will develop new and existing blends and manage stock, including cask profile and age profile. She holds a degree in Food Science and Technology from UCC and a diploma in Distilling from the Institute of Brewing and Distilling. She joined in 2012 as part of the first year of the Jameson Engineering Programme, and was appointed as a process technologist. She was part of the team developing new pot stills in the Garden Stillhouse and the new columns in the Midleton Distillery expansion project. As a bond supervisor, she helped oversee the 1.7 million casks maturing in Midleton.