Speakers
Ireland's leading professionals will work with the Endeavourees collectively for one day and will then provide each participant with one-to-one consultancy. The workshops will take place between November and December 2009 and will address Strategy and Business Models, Communications, Marketing and Branding, Financials, Sales, Technology, Team and IP/Patents/Legal issues
Brian English graduated in electronic engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 1986 and later achieved the Diploma in Marketing of the Marketing Institute of Ireland. After a 20 year career in international business at companies such as Artesyn Technologies, Emerson and the XP Power Group, he set up Qupact International in 2003 and launched PACT - a programme to guide companies through the complex task of setting up and managing third party sales channels in international markets. PACT is endorsed by the Irish Exporters Association as a valuable tool to help both indigenous and multinational companies located in Ireland to establish or expand their positions in overseas markets and is delivered as a module in the prestigious and academically accredited International Selling Program offered by the Dublin Institute of Technology for Enterprise Ireland.