Aaron Rogan is deputy editor of the Business Post, driving the company’s strategy and editorial content. An award winning journalist who has specialised in business coverage throughout his career, he is also the author of Punters: How Paddy Power Bet Billions and Changed Gambling Forever.

Gillian Nelis has held a variety of roles with the Business Post group, including property editor and deputy editor. A journalist with over 25 years experience, she is currently the Business Post’s managing editor, and is heavily involved in the company’s digital transformation agenda. 

She is the editor of the Business Post’s weekly Life&Luxury supplement , and is also chair of the judging panel for the Food&Wine Restaurant of the Year awards.

Barry Guiney is a partner at global executive search and leadership advisory firm Odgers Ireland. He has more than 20 years’ senior executive experience in the technology sector.

He is at the core of Scale Up Collective in Ireland having spent more than a decade of his career specifically working in investor-led businesses, such as Digisoft.tv, Bluemetrix, Xanadu Consultancy. Through his intimate knowledge of the steps to scale, Barry has developed the implicit ability to recognise growth expertise combined with operational excellence in leaders.

Geraldine King is Chief Executive at The Employment & Recruitment Federation (ERF) and a board member of The World Employment Confederation (WEC).

Geraldine is a regular contributor to media on the labour markets and a conference speaker and is passionate about educating the recruitment profession. Her beliefs and vision are that the recruitment sector should have a full academic career path to retain and attract talent and has been instrumental in the success of the award of the first undergraduate 3 year degree apprenticeship programme for recruiters in partnership with the National College of Ireland. She developed the only certificate programme for recruiters for Irish recruiters and has successfully led the ERF to obtain their own Skillnet.

A visionary leader, Geraldine is passionate about realising the potential of her people and offering her team opportunities to develop and thrive. She fundamentally believes that people are the foundation of success.

She is listed for the 6th year running in Staffing Industry Analysts top 100 EU leaders and in the top 150 Global power Women. She is a regular Global awards adjudicator in the business arena.

Daniel McConnell is a leading journalist, broadcaster, moderator and editor.

He has been editor of the Business Post and Businesspost.ie since April 2023 and has overall responsibility for the leadership of the editorial team across digital, multimedia and print.

A seven-time national journalism award winner, Daniel was named Ireland’s journalist of the year and political journalist of the year in 2022. Previously he served as Political Editor at the Irish Examiner and Group Political Correspondent at Independent News and Media (Mediahuis Ireland).

He co-authored the 2016 best-seller ‘Hell at the Gates’ and is a leading contributor to and presenter on national radio and TV, acting as stand-in presenter on Matt Cooper’s Last Word on Today FM.

Charlie Taylor is Ireland’s leading technology reporter, regularly breaking news stories on the sector and providing incisive analysis on trends both local and international. He is the editor of Connected, the Business Post’s monthly technology magazine, the host of the Connected News Podcast and is a regular contributor at tech events around the country.

Dr Martina Byrne is a business leader and communication specialist with over 30 years’ experience across the private, public, and non-profit sectors. As CEO of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) she has led strategic and digital transformation for the membership body dedicated to promoting the professional practice of public relations and communication in Ireland. In 2024, she was appointed to the Board of the National Gallery of Ireland by the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media.

Before taking on executive leadership roles, Martina was a lecturer and researcher at TCD and the ESRI and an award-winning communications and public affairs consultant.

Catherine Sanz is the legal affairs editor of the Business Post, having taken up the role earlier this year after several years as the paper’s legal correspondent. She reports on corporate lawsuits, business restructurings, and the legal services market in Ireland. Her work has received numerous awards and she is also the author of Drama Drives Interest: The Web Summit Story.

Prior to the Business Post, Catherine worked for ABC News, Storyful News, The Times of London (Ireland Edition), and The Sunday Times.

Catherine Welch is the chair of strategic management at Trinity College Dublin and the director of research at Trinity Business School. Prior to joining Trinity, she was a professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. 

Catherine’s research centres on the international strategies of firms and the pathways they take to expand in global markets. She has a particular interest in the internationalisation of high-technology, science-based firms seeking to bring radical innovations to global markets. 

Charley Stoney has been CEO of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI), the body for the commercial creativity and communications industry in Ireland, for the last two years. 

She is a board member of the European Association of Communication Agencies, where she chairs the national associations committee across 20+ European regions, a board member of the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland, and a board member and joint CEO of the Central Copy Clearance in Ireland.

Prior to IAPI,  Charley held managing director roles in marketing and advertising within the marketing talent business Alternatives, the leading field marketing agency FMI Ltd, and the marketing services agency McConnells Fusion. 

Daniel Murray is policy editor of the Business Post, having taken up the role this year after several years as the company’s political correspondent. He has traditionally focused his reporting on environmental issues and has broken many stories in that field. 

He is the host of Five Degrees of Change, the Business Post’s energy and environment podcast, where he speaks with leading experts in the fields of environmental science and climate change about the policy and personal changes they would make for a greener world. Daniel is the current Newsbrands Ireland political journalist of the year.

Martin Curley is professor of Innovation at Maynooth University, and director of the digital health ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute at the university. He is a former chief information officer and director of digital transformation for the Health Service Executive, and a former senior vice president at Mastercard and head of its global digital practice. 

Martin has been identified as a top ten global influential, inspiring and impactful health leader/educator by a number of international publications, and was awarded the title of European Chief Technology Officer of the year in 2015.