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New blood at the IIA
25-11-2009
by Ralph Averbuch
The new CEO of the IIA inherits a good operation from her predecessor and new challenges too.
There will be quite a few people much relieved that the Irish Internet Association has finally appointed a new CEO to head the organisation. The new blood is Joan Mulvihill who takes over from Fergal O’Byrne. O'Byrne left the IIA a few months ago to take up the position of CEO with Sonru.com. The IIA is a venerable old beast of the internet, having started up in 1997, just one year after Yahoo launched its European services. O'Byrne has been widely recognised as having brought a fresh approach to the IIA when he took on the job, encouraging much greater hands-on activity, training, debates and lobbying and creating an association which felt relevant and vital within the industry at large. He also brought a buzz to the organisation which had perhaps been lacking before. His successor therefore has a lot to live up to, but there's no doubt that Mulvihill comes to the IIA with it in a much better condition than when O'Byrne took up the reins some four years ago. We wish the new CEO good fortune in these difficult economic times.
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