Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly

Maria Mahon has extensive business experience in leadership positions in the media, technology and service industries. Maria brings a unique blend of international entrepreneurial and leadership experience to the companies she works with at executive, board and advisory level. She has previously held the position of Marketing Director for Dublin’s leading music Radio Station, 98FM working with the programming and marketing teams to restore its No.1 position in the local market and also held the position of International Brand Manager of Tourism Ireland responsible for the roll out of the All Ireland Tourism brand globally. In 2006 Maria established a consulting practice to advise and mentor CEO’s on developing and implementing funding and growth strategies for their businesses. But she has ‘walked the walk’ too as the group CEO of Saongroup.com, growing the business from a single online recruitment startup in Ireland to an international group of market leading sites including sites in Ireland, UK, South America, South Africa, the Caribbean and China - through both organic growth and acquisition. Her board positions have included Vice Chair of Communicorp Media from 2019 - 2021 prior to its successful sale to Bauer Media, Vice Chair of Saon until it’s sale to Axel Springer in 2013, and vice chair of ChinaHR for a 2 year period before its sale. She recently finished as chair of the board and interim CEO of GoContractor - a leading SaaS business selling into the Construction and renewable energy sectors in Europe and the US, following its sale to a Safety Plus of the US. This is the 39th episode with guest Maria Mahon, Chair, Director, Business Owner in the Davy podcast series 'Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly'.

Sandra Healy is an Engineer, an Organisational Psychologist and NLP Master Practitioner. Sandra's career spanned 20 years in the global telecoms industry and five years at Dublin City University where she established the DCU Centre of Excellence for Diversity & Inclusion. In 2020, Sandra spun inclusio out of DCU. Over the past 18 years, Sandra has championed and driven diversity and inclusion practice across industry and is considered a leading expert. In 2014, she was involved in establishing the EU Diversity Charter for Ireland. In 2020 Sandra joined the Expert Advisory Group for Ireland’s Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality and is currently on the Leadership Advisory Council for Ireland's Police Force. In 2023 Sandra contributed expertise to the EU (AI) Artificial Intelligence Act and ISO certifications on equality. inclusio's gamified software is proven to capture the hard-to-get people data. It provides employers with the most comprehensive and reliable people and culture data on the market. The scientific data captured through inclusio empowers leaders with the insights they need to deliver meaningful culture change and achieve true employer excellence. Through concrete insights instead of guesswork, leaders can deliver on their cultural ambitions and respond to regulatory and mandatory reporting. The platform analytics and culture frameworks ensure growing companies can attract talent, remain competitive and be globally compliant. This is the 38th episode with guest Sandra Healy, CEO and Founder of inclusio in the Davy podcast series 'Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly'. This podcast brings you insightful conversation between Aidan Donnelly and entrepreneurs and business owners/management with their own unique story to tell. If you like what you hear, please like, share and subscribe.

Niall McConnell and Nik Healy, co-founders of Convergent. They have spent the entirety of their business life working with companies to dissolve information chaos in business which is a significant barrier to business growth. For businesses to perform optimally, information must be unbound and flowing seamlessly across various systems, departments, and users. Founded in 2014, Convergent is a document and information management consultancy that challenges short-term thinking to solve information, document control, and automation problems. Convergent’s unique approach to information management is to tailor solutions that meet the specific needs and requirements of businesses and process owners. Niall has spent almost 25 years working in tech and prior to Convergent Niall worked in Business Analyst, Project Management and Commercial roles in Fintech companies. He heads up the Convergent business operation and oversees the commercial, finance and marketing functions as well as supporting the Solutions and Technical Teams. Nik has previously held Management Consulting roles in Ireland and Canada. Nik leads the Solutions Team at Convergent and is widely regarded as one of Irelands leading document & information management experts. Nik also regularly speaks at Irish and international conferences. This is the 37th episode with guests Niall McConnell and Nik Healy, co-founders of Convergent in the Davy podcast series 'Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly'. This podcast brings you insightful conversation between Aidan Donnelly and entrepreneurs and business owners/management with their own unique story to tell. If you like what you hear, please like, share and subscribe.

DMG Media is part of one of the largest media companies in the world and continue to grow their position in Ireland. It is home to some of the best-known media brands in Ireland and the expanding portfolio of websites, newspapers and magazines is crafted every day by 140 staff delivering compelling content to over 3.6m adults in Ireland every month. Over the last 22 years they have been continuously growing both organically and through acquisition and are now one of the largest media content producers in Ireland. It has developed and built some of Ireland’s most popular consumer and business media brands including The Irish Daily Mail, The Irish Mail on Sunday, EVOKE, Rollercoaster.ie, Extra.ie, OneFabDay.com, MailOnLine, Geek Ireland, ExtraG.ie, and BusinessPlus.ie. They are consistently innovating to address the ever-changing digital landscape by investing in and developing content distribution, data measurement, audience targeting and commercial segmentation technologies – their motto is “Engaging Audiences Through Great Content”. With me today is Paul Henderson, who has been the CEO of DMG Media Ireland since 2008 driving consistent revenue and profit growth each year. His extensive career in Irish media began at The Irish Daily Star, where he advanced to Director of Sales. Subsequently, he was part of the TV3 (now Virgin Media) launch team as Group Sales Manager. He is a Chartered member of the Institute of Directors. He holds a BA in Marketing from the Marketing Institute of Ireland and a Graduate Diploma in Business Finance from the Irish Management Institute. This is the 36th episode with guest Paul Henderson, CEO DMG Media Ireland in the Davy podcast series 'Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly'. This podcast brings you insightful conversation between Aidan Donnelly and entrepreneurs and business owners/management with their own unique story to tell. If you like what you hear, please like, share and subscribe.