prospective
students
DCU has over 25,000 graduates working in more
than 30 countries in leadership positions in
industry and academia, both in the private and
public sector. Below are just a sample of the
successful, rewarding career paths that
graduates of our business and language degrees have pursued.
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Bachelor of
Business Studies graduate, Sinead
Colton, is currently a senior portfolio
manager with Lee Overlay Partners Limited, a
currency overlay firm based in Dublin. Upon
graduation she moved to London to work with
Chase Manhattan as a foreign exchange and
options salesperson. In 1996 she joined JP
Morgan Investment Management as a currency
trader, and subsequently moved to the
position of portfolio manager within the
currency overlay group. In 1999, she
was one of the founding partners of Lee
Overlay Partners. The firm manages currency
exposures on behalf of institutional pension
funds. Assets under management are currently
€1.5 billion, from an internationally
diversified client base.
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Seosaidh O'Connor,
Bachelor Business Studies, works
for Wyeth Medica as a HR consultant. Wyeth
employs 1,500 people at their Newbridge site
which produces solid dose pharmaceuticals.
Seosaidh provides a full range of HR
services to his client groups, focusing on
organisational development, succession
planning, project and change management,
people development, mentoring and coaching.
Since joining the company in 1998, he has
held a variety of roles from employee
relations officer to HR consultant and was
the project manager for the implementation
of a major IT solution on site. He is
currently facilitating a global change
programme (Shop Floor Excellence) involving
sites from Ireland, Puerto Rico and the US.
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Gerard Boylan,
BA in Accounting and Finance, has recently been
appointed finance director of Tedcastles Oil
Products Ltd (TOP). TOP is a privately owned oil
importation and distribution company employing 180
people in Ireland and with annual revenues of
approximately €350 million. The company is part of
the Reihill owned fuels, chemicals and property
group, which has interests primarily in Ireland,
Northern Ireland and Scotland. Gerard, a qualified
chartered accountant joined TOP in 1999 as head of
financial projects after six years in
PricewaterhouseCoopers culminating as a senior
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John McWalter,
BA in Accounting and Finance, is managing
director of HSBC Global Investor Services (Ireland)
limited (HGIS). HGIS are trustee custodians to over
160 mutual fund vehicles with in excess of US $6
billion in assets from an international client base.
HGIS is part of the HSBC group, which is one of the
largest financial institutions in the world. John
started his career with Irish Intercontinental Bank,
qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1993. John
moved to Ulster Bank Investment Services in 1994 and
worked in various roles from fund accounting manager to head of the risk management and control
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Carla Schuermann,
BA in European Business, is currently working
as a market research professional for Eli Lilly in
Bad Homburg (near Frankfurt) in Germany. She is
responsible for primary and secondary research
including working with market research agencies and
its target group of specialised physicians. Carla
has also developed an induction plan for new team
members and she is working on a team satisfaction
questionnaire/process as well as coordinating a
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Michael Dwyer,
B.A. in International Marketing & Languages, is chief executive officer of Empathy
Marketing Limited (Pigsback.com). Michael
has worked in the FMCG sector for 15 years,
with Jacobs, Danone and Green Isle Foods,
before establishing Empathy Marketing
Limited (EML) in April 2000. Michael has
worked in Ireland, the UK and France.
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Sandra
Lawler and Aldagh Mc Donogh, BA in
International Marketing and Languages, put
their degrees to good use with an
international marketing career, working for
brand leading companies in Ireland and
abroad. Both followed similar paths, with
Aldagh taking senior roles in Kerry Foods,
Baileys and Coca-Cola and Sandra with
Kerrygold, Irish Distillers and Groupe
Pernod Ricard. In 2000, having seen an
opportunity, they set-up Alternatives
Outsource Marketing, an innovative marketing
company. Alternatives provides skilled
marketers to companies to work with them on
an interim or consultancy basis, to address
their marketing and commercial needs.
Alternatives also have an upskilling
division, which upskills clients in
marketing and commercial best practice. The
company is going from strength to strength
and clients include Guinness UDV, Glanbia,
IDL, Bank of Ireland, Nestle, Nivea,
Microsoft, McDonalds and Vodafone.
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Fiona Harte, BA in Applied Languages
(now Languages for International Communication)
is currently employed as European business
development manager with NewWorldIQ, a provider of
intelligent enterprise marketing automation
solutions. Fiona has held numerous sales & marketing
roles including account director for Lotus, QMS and
Gateway's customer relationship programme with a
below-the-line direct marketing agency. She was also
response manager at Oracle with responsibility for
managing Oracle's inbound and outbound Internet &
telemarketing team across five European countries.
Fiona also holds a Masters in Strategic
International Marketing from DCU.
Catherine
Spencer, BA in Applied Languages, is
currently lecturing in German and intercultural
studies at DIT. She is also completing a doctorate
at the Institute of German Studies at the University
of Birmingham on “National Identity in Austria 1945
– 1955.” Catherine has worked for the School of
Applied Language & Intercultural Studies at DCU and
lectured at the Institute for Translation and
Interpreting, Karl Franzens-Universitaet in Austria.
Catherine holds a masters on the translation of
(Austrian) drama. |
