Business movers: People starting new jobs in Ireland

New appointees with Sidero, Actavo, Aspira, Statham’s, Aramark and Ardanis

New roles: (top row, left to right) Joe Dowling, Elaine Phillips, Thomas McGrath; (bottom row) Ken Harker, Terry Woods, Stefan Goor.

Here is a selection of people starting new roles with Sidero, Actavo, Aspira, Statham’s, Aramark and Ardanis.

Joe Dowling has been promoted to chief technology officer at Irish software and cloud firm Sidero. leading its technology direction. He brings 30 years’ experience to his new role, He was Sidero's agile line manager for the past five years. He previously worked with Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Athlone lab as technical research lead. He also spent 15 years with Nokia in its London and San Diego bases as a systems engineer and consultant. During his career, Joe has been granted three US patents in telecomms systems; priority channels in communication; and intermodulation distortion, a metric of signal linearity. A recent graduate of a Masters in Cloud-Native Computing from Athlone IT, he has been published in a number of conference and journal publications.