Great US trade visit for all-island network of female entrepreneurs

Participants in the all-island AwakenHub trade mission to New York and Boston reinforces the unique US-Irish business relationship

Cofounders of AwakenHub and AwakenAngels at a reception for the Awaken women founders and investors held in the residence of the British Consul General in New York. Pictured are: Shree Shah, British Consulate-General NY; Sinead Crowley, Cofounder; Clare McGee, Cofounder;  Melanie Hopkins OBE, Acting Consul General at the British Consulate General in New York, Mary McKenna MBE, Cofounder; Maria McKeever, COO, Awaken; Stephanie Paley, British Consulate General in New York and Denise McQuaid, Cofounder, AwakenHub & AwakenAngels.

The 25-strong Irish delegation attending a recent week-long St Brigid’s Day trade mission to the United States proved to be a huge success. 

It was the third such mission run by AwakenHub, Ireland’s only all-island community for women founders, and AwakenAngels, the first women-led all-island investment community.