The Inventiveness of the Irish Mind

Barry O’Leary, CEO, IDA Ireland

“Chief executives of some of the world’s most powerful corporations link their approach to business to the inventiveness of the Irish mind”

David O’Reilly, Chairman & CEO, Chevron

“My ‘sense of Irishness’ was a factor in my working like, highlighting the Irish ability to think from a small perspective about a big issue”

Neville Isdell, ex-CEO and Chairman, Coca Cola

“I think there’s a very specific advantage we have because of the social genre, the way we’re brought up in an Irish community, an Irish society, that equips us extremely well for leadership in today’s world”

Peter Sutherland, Chairman Goldman Sachs

“I have always remained passionately Irish throughout a career of working around the world. It’s an advantage being Irish. You don’t have the historical baggage that others have”