John is President and Chief Executive Officer at G24 Innovations and is President and Founder of the Irish Technology Leadership Group. Prior to joining G24i, John Hartnett was senior vice president of global markets at Palm, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide sales, service and support. Before that, he was executive vice president of worldwide operations, service, support and eCommerce at Handspring, Inc. He was an integral member of the executive leadership team that led to the 2003 merger of Handspring and palmOne to form what is known today as Palm, Inc.
John has over 20 years of senior management experience across sales, marketing, and operations in the US and Ireland. His career in high tech boasts some of the industry’s leading companies.
John is a member of the Wireless Advisory Board in the U.S. for Enterprise Ireland and is the President and Chairman, as well as a founding member, of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) in the U.S.
John earned a marketing degree through the Marketing Institute of Ireland, a post-graduate diploma in finance through the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and completed the executive management program at Stanford University. He is on the board of the University of Limerick Foundation. John is a member of the American Ireland Fund and the US-Ireland Alliance.
John Stanton is the President of the Irish Innovation Center (IIC) dedicated to the growth of Irish technology start-ups in the Silicon Valley. He also serves as Executive Director of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG), a non-profit aimed at helping Ireland embrace new technology opportunities. In addition, John is a member of the Irish Technology Capital (ITC) management team investing in "Market Changing" early stage, high growth companies.
John has amassed a wide variety of technology and entrepreneurial experience over his 25 year career. Prior to joining the IIC in 2010, John served as President of MarketMinds, a consultancy firm he founded dedicated to bringing new products to market. He also served as Founder and CEO of CubeGuard, a simple but elegant office productivity tool for preventing interruptions and communicating availability status to coworkers.
Prior to founding his own companies, John served at Palm as Vice President of Product Marketing, Vice President of Mobile Software and Services, and Vice President Customer Support and E-Commerce. Previous to that, he held various leadership positions with several top technology companies in the Silicon Valley including: Apple, Intuit, Hewlett Packard and Eclipse, a highly successful supply chain consulting firm where he played a key leadership role in building the company's double and triple digit growth.
Bobbi has over 25 years of experience working with high tech startup companies in Silicon Valley and is currently a consultant assisting startup companies develop business plans and establish operations.
Prior to her consulting career, Bobbi worked with GRiD Systems, Palm Computing, Handspring, Virgin Electronics and Pinger, Inc. She has excelled in a variety of senior level positions in sales and marketing in both a domestic and international capacity. In addition, Bobbi has significant operational experience in the physical establishment of startup companies in Silicon Valley.
Bobbi holds a BS in Business, Finance from California State University, Chico and an MBA in Marketing from Santa Clara University.
Cian currently operates as a full-time executive consultant where he specializes in Business Management, Operations & Strategic Management and new business startups in the High-Tech sector.
Cian Hughes has held key positions in General Management, Operations Management and Localization Management with some of the world’s leading organizations over the past 19 years including Lotus/IBM, ITP (now SDL), Intel, MetaCreations (now Viewpoint), Pivotal, Curious Labs (now e-frontier).
Additionally Cian played a key role in start up of the International Operations entities in Ireland for MetaCreations, Curious Labs & Pivotal.
Cian holds a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from University College, Dublin, Ireland, and a Diploma in Management from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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