Business movers: People starting new jobs in Ireland

New appointees with CorkBIC, Murray Group, Seat and Cupra Ireland, TEKenable, Onate and Teagasc

New roles: (top row, left to right) Larry O’Donoghue, Nicola Cooke, Ger Boyle; (bottom row) Vishal Sharma, Hugh Lyons, Dr Atikur Rahman.

Here is a selection of people starting new roles with CorkBIC, Murray Group, Seat and Cupra Ireland, TEKenable, Onate and Teagasc.

Larry O’Donoghue has been appointed as chief operating officer with CorkBIC, tech advisor to high potential start-ups. He will take the lead in identifying international funding opportunities for high growth companies through CorkBIC’s strategic partnerships in Europe and the US. He has been a senior consultant with CorkBIC for the past four years. Prior to that, he was COO and head of HR with Natural Training Ltd. He holds a BSc in Business Information Systems from UCC. CorkBIC is a private sector organisation, set up to identify and build knowledge intensive companies based on promising technology and capable innovative people. At any one time, CorkBIC has 40 or 50 projects in the pipeline. Some 85% of start-ups engaging in this integrated process survive after five years, versus the 50% global survival average.