Gathering for Action
John McGrane Head of Product and Service Sales - Ulster Bank Corporate Banking John McGrane joined Ulster Bank in 1974 and his career has ranged widely across the bank’s Retail, Corporate and Risk divisions, in both frontline and strategic roles. As Head of Product and Service Sales he is responsible for delivering Ulster Bank’s full global service proposition to the SME and Corporate sectors and for the roll-out of key new initiatives. John is a Commerce graduate of University College Dublin, a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers in Ireland and a Fellow of the Sales Institute. John is Deputy Vice President of Dublin Chamber of Commerce and a Director of The British Irish Chamber of Commerce, where he chairs its Culture, Arts, Sports and Tourism subcommittee. He is also a director of Dublin City Enterprise Board, the charity Music Network and The National Concert Hall.
Stuart McLaughlin Chief Executive - Business to Arts Stuart McLaughlin has been Chief Executive of Business to Arts since 2007. He was previously Business Development Director with Accenture, Head of Outsourcing with CapGemini, and Commercial Manager for Fujitsu. Stuart mentors arts managers for Business to Arts, lectures part-time for Trinity College (leading the module ‘Managing the Supplier Environment’ for the MSc Management of Information Systems), and has co-authored degree courses for Oscail, the National Distance Education Centre of Ireland, based at DCU. Stuart is Chair of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC and, in 2009, was named ‘Fundraiser of the Year’ by Fundraising Ireland.
David McWilliams Convenor David Mc Williams is an economist, broadcaster and bestselling author. Most recently he has brought economics to the national theatre with his one-man-show “Outsiders” – a unique partnership with the Abbey Theatre. McWilliams also writes two weekly economics columns in the Sunday Business Post and the Irish Independent. His first book, The Pope’s Children, was the best selling Irish non-fiction book in 2006, spending 52 consecutive weeks in the top five of the bestsellers. Between 2000 and 2006 David hosted the current affairs show “Agenda” on TV3, “The Breakfast Show” on Newstalk 106 and the topical chat show “The Big Bite” on RTE1. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium. Before moving into writing and broadcasting he spent ten years in banking, first as an economist with the Irish Central Bank, then with the investment banks UBS and BNP.