Category Archives: Business Photographer

01.04.12
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Complimentary Therapy Room at Crunl,in Hospital Crumlin

Miriam O’Callaghan is pictured with Fei Sheehy, (age 8) from Clonmel opening the new Complimentary Therapy Room at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin donated by the Julie Wren Trust at the Children’s Medical Research Foundation. The service offers children and their parents attending the National Children’s Haematology & Oncology Centre a range of therapies to help ease some of their suffering. Pic Andres Poveda

Irish Examiner
08.19.11
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Irish Times Front Page | Andres Poveda Photography

1:30pm and as snoozing sales men and taxi drivers shock themselfs off after some dahboard cusine and got ready to get back to the daily grind,  Piercing the horizon was a pillar of white as the S/S Statsraad Lehmkuhl approached the Irish coast. Laden down with a full camera bag I hicked out to the Dublin bay landmark of Poolbeg Lighthouse, only to watch in horror as the ship dissapered behind Houth head. After a quick call to the Dublin Port Authoity I decided to wait out as the ship was not docking in Dublin untill 4pm. After spending three hours at poolbeg lighthouse eventually the sleek white lady mad her grand entrance into the port. 

Irish Times 19 August 2011

The Norewegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl pictured enetering Dublin Port.

04.19.11
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Enter the dragons

Irish Independent Tuesday 19th April

M50 Enterprise Platform Programme ‘Invest’ in their 2010 Participants!

Monday 18th April 2011, The LINC (Learning and Innovation Centre), ITB (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown). As the 2010 cohort of the M50 Enterprise Platform Programme 2010 draws to a close, the LINC offered the participants a golden opportunity, to pitch their businesses to a panel of experienced businesses investors.

Having spent a year at the LINC honing their business skills and progressing with their business plans, whilst receiving invaluable mentoring and training from The LINC, some of Ireland’s best emerging start-up companies are now ready to enter the dragons den world of pitching for investment. The panel of investors at the LINC today included;

· Derek Crawley, NCB Ventures
· Justin Baily, Horwath Bastow Charleton
· Martin Scully, Oyster Capital Partners
· Liz Fleming, Halo Business Angel Network Damian Scattergood from STAR Ts.

Amongst the companies pitching were Safefood 360, a cutting edge food safety compliance software company, who launched in April. Speaking after his pitch, George Howlett, Chief Operations Officer, Safefood 360 said of the opportunity “It was great to have the opportunity to present Safefood 360 to a panel of experienced and insightful investors. Their interest was encouraging and their feedback valued, particularly as we are now seeing to raise second round funding.”

The M50 Enterprise Platform Programme (M50 EPP) is a one year practically focussed enterprise support programme aimed at entrepreneurs who are in the early stages of starting up their own high potential, knowledge intensive businesses. There are twelve places in total being filled this year with the names of the successful companies being announced in the coming weeks.

Martin Scully, Oyster Capital Partners, speaking about what VC’s are looking for in a pitch: “Tell us the business problem you are solving and how your solution will address it, how much you think the customer will pay and how you propose to target the market. What is most appealing is a disruptive technology which can be fully developed on an ongoing basis. We want to contribute to the roll-out of a global sales organisation which typically means heading straight to the US market.”

The M50 EPP is about to launch it’s 2011 in late April and were inundated with applications. “The programme at the LINC is in high demand,” said Claire Mac Namee, Enterprise Manager “Companies that come on our programme have the benefit of top class mentors in all areas of new business development which really helps them accelerate their businesses forward at a rapid pace. They also benefit from basing their companies at the LINC and availing of all of the professional facilities that we have in place. The difficult job we had this year of shortlisting applications is testament to the wonderful creativity and innovation capabilities of the business people in Ireland at the moment. We are very excited about working with the twelve companies chosen and look forward to revealing their identity in the coming weeks.”

The LINC
The LINC (Learning and Innovation Centre) is ITB’s tangible link between the Institute and the Business Community making accessible the skills and expertise of the Institute to the buisness community.

Spanning over 2,000 square metres, the newly refurbished LINC offers a wealth of possibilities to entrepreneurs. Facilities include a boardroom, meeting room, computer labs, entrepreneurship lab, ideas lab, research room, onsite catering and free parking. Tenants also have access to support and mentoring through the “Create, Learn, Grow”
business incubation programme.

http://www.thelinc.com <http://www.thelinc.com>