Top 100 Women in STEM
DCU Ryan Academy CEO, Ann Horan and DCU academic, Dr Christine Loscher have been named in the 100 Top Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths by Silicon Republic. They are joined in this roll call of great female role models by DCU graduate Regina Moran, CEO Fujitsu; Alrlene O'Neill, science communicator; and Anne Ravanona, CEO, Global Invest Her. The technology news site will recognise the top 100 at a special celebration on Monday 30th June.
Ann Horan, DCU Ryan Academy (Leadership, entrepreneurship)
Ann Horan is CEO of the DCU Ryan Academy, a not-for-profit joint venture between Dublin City University and the family of the late Tony Ryan, founder of Ryanair. The academy, based in Citywest, Dublin, aims to be a leading supporter of entrepreneurs and innovation in Ireland. It offers a range of programmes designed to educate and develop entrepreneurs and accelerate the growth phases of entrepreneurial ventures. In 2014, it has been running the Female Propeller for High Fliers - an accelerator programme for female-led start-ups that specifically addresses the challenges facing female entrepreneurs. An accountant by training, until 2005 Horan was managing director of Bank of Ireland Finance and is current president of the International Women's Forum in Ireland.
Christine Loscher, Dublin City University (Immunology, food science)
Dr Christine Loscher is director of Dublin City University (DCU) Health Technologies Research and Enterprise Hub, and a researcher in the Food for Health Ireland (FHI) consortium, an Enterprise Ireland-supported initiative that links academics with major Irish dairy and ingredients companies to mine milk and other foods for potential bioactives. Through FHI, Loscher has started to work with researchers at Teagasc, Moorepark, to look for ingredients that could help infants with milk allergies. Aside from her lab research, Loscher also directs the BioAT-structured PhD programme, and she is to be the academic lead in a new nano-bioanalytical research facility being built on the DCU campus.
Regina Moran, Fujitsu (Leadership, engineering)
Regina Moran has been CEO of Fujitsu Ireland since 2006. She she leads a 350-strong team focused on delivering ICT services to the Irish marketplace. Like Ann Kelleher, Moran is an engineer by training. After qualifying, her career began as an electronics engineer with Amdahl, a computer mainframe manufacturer, where she progressed to become a co-founder of the services and consulting group there. In 1997, Moran co-founded DMR Consulting Ireland, which later became Fujitsu Consulting and subsequently merged with Fujitsu Services in April 2004. She is vice-president of Engineers Ireland and a director of EirGrid.
Arlene O'Neill, CRANN (Physics, STEM communications)
With a BSC in Applied Physics and PhD in physics from Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Arlene O'Neill is a nanomaterials scientist turned science communicator. Her current role is communications, education and outreach officer for CRANN and TCD School of Physics, but she is also a Smart Futures ambassador, helping support secondary students, their teachers, guidance counsellors and parents in learning more about careers in science, technology and engineering. O'Neill is also involved in the DART of Physics project, which brings physics to the public by giving physics lessons on the DART line in Dublin, and in DART stations around Dublin. She regularly visits schools and gives talks, hoping to inspire young people to get involved in science.
Anne Ravanona, Global Invest Her (Investment, advocacy)
Anne Ravanona is founder and CEO of Global Invest Her, focused on getting women entrepreneurs funded faster and increasing gender diversity at work. She is a dynamic, global businesswoman with more than 20 years of experience in management consulting and global business development. She has interviewed more than 45 global women leaders, and is founder and president of Women Entrepreneurs Network in Paris. She has a BA in international marketing and languages from Dublin City University and a diploma in global strategic management from Harvard Business School. Based in Paris, she has dual nationality (Irish and Spanish) and speaks five European languages.
Courtesy of Silicon Republic