The Mayo man doling out $1m Super Bowl suites

Aiden Mannion was always keen to get back to America. As a business student at DCU, he’d spent a year working in sales with the LA Clippers before he graduated, and he wanted more.

He was good at the job and the job was good to him, and that’s how he ended up working at the $1.3 billion (€1.1bn) Levi’s Stadium, which opened in summer 2014 and hosts tomorrow’s Super Bowl 50.

“I work with Fortune 500 companies both in the Bay Area and nationally,” says Mannion. “I handle suite sales, which are sold on long-term contracts — five to 20 years. They’re not cheap, so we pitch the suite as a total experience — companies can bring out their top clients to one of the best venues in the country for a big game.