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#NYNB18 IER A L S O C I E T Y&P ISH H IST ORICA R I C A N I R AME SHAPING THE FUTURE JUNE 7 - 8, 2018 Headline Partner The conference will highlighting the bridges of progress and prosperity being built between the citizens of the two great cities of New York and Belfast, looking optimistically to the future while celebrating our shared past. A Belfast delegation of community, cultural and business leaders will meet with their New York counterparts to discuss investment, embedding the peace, tourism, the arts and how they can work together to the mutual benefit of their communities.
www.irishecho.com / Irish Echo / JUNE 6 - 12, 2018 / Page 18 New York - New Belfast Conference 2018 ‘Knowledge economy’ grows by the Lagan By Johnny Hanna Partner and Head of Tax, KPMG in Northern Ireland orthern Ireland is a region on the rise as a N walk through Belfast will testify. As a location for inward investment and entrepreneurial activity, it is city that is hard to beat. A combination of first class infrastructure, competitive costs and a vibrant social environment all combine to provide a compelling case for companies looking to locate in Northern Ireland. Belfast is now the second-fastest growing knowledge economy in the UK, has been named Europe’s most business-friendly city of its size by the Financial Times fDI magazine and is ranked in the top 10 local areas in the UK for productivity. Indigenous companies like First Derivatives, Kainos and Almac have led the charge, but they are not alone in recognising the benefits. They have been joined by a raft of canny inward investors – over 800 at last count - who have been attracted to the city by a highly-educated workforce, the best broadband connectivity in Europe, an outstanding education system, a strategic location and an excellent quality of life. Many of those investors originate from the US. Amongst those who have chosen to locate here are Allstate, Citi, Baker McKenzie and Chicago Mercantile Exchange - all of whom have a Johnny Hanna. considerable presence in Belfast. Tellingly, all have reinvested (in most cases several times over) since inward investors are our greatest advocates and will sound inward investment decisions and we’d be first arriving in the city and have embedded provide countless reasons why investing in Belfast delighted to tell you more about why choosing themselves in the local economy and wider society. and in Northern Ireland makes business sense. Belfast can make a big difference to your business. In addition to the business community, our We’re committed to helping your company make We look forward to hearing from you. Conference finale to honor Irish Echo’s Irish American of the Year for 2018, Congressman Joe Crowley Congressman Crowley will be honored at His cousin, New York City firefighter the NY/NB conference finale reception at John Moran, was killed as a result of the Pier A on Friday evening, June 8. 9/11 terrorist attacks. Crowley subsequently authored a bill that provided the 9/11 Congressman Joe Crowley, whose political Heroes Medal of Valor to all emergency career has taken him into the front line of workers who died as a result of the attacks. the nation’s political life, is the Irish Echo The bill was passed unanimously by the Irish American of the Year for 2018. House and Senate. Congressman Crowley is the eleventh Crowley is a leading member of the person to win the accolade since it was congressional Friends of Ireland. One of his revived in 2007. recent initiatives has been aimed at naming Crowley succeeds university lecturer and a park in the nation’s capital after Irish Great Hunger curriculum pioneer, Professor patriot and immigrant, Thomas Addis Maureen Murphy, who was the 2017 Emmet. recipient of the title. Rep. Crowley joins a distinguished and Married and a father of three, Crowley, a varied Irish American of the Year roster. He Democrat, represents New York’s 14th is the third member of Congress to be congressional district in the U.S. House of named to it, the other two being Republican Representatives. Prior to redistricting, he Peter King and Democrat Richard Neal. represented New York’s 7th congressional Rep. King was Irish American of the Year district. in 2016 and broadcaster Adrian Flannelly Rep. Crowley is chairman of the Queens was the 2015 title holder. County Democratic Party and became chair The winners prior to Mr. Flannelly were of the House Democratic Caucus in 2017. As Philanthropist Loretta Brennan Glucksman, such, he is the fourth ranking Democrat in attorney and rights activist Brian O’Dwyer, the House of Representatives. author Pete Hamill, Congressman Neal, His congressional career goes back to author Colum McCann, New York City 1998, so this year marks his twentieth council speaker Christine Quinn, and U.S. anniversary on Capitol Hill. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Crowley was born in New York City, the “We proudly welcome Congressman son of an Irish-American father and an Crowley to the growing family of Irish Echo immigrant mother from County Armagh. Irish American of the Year award holders,” He was a member of the New York State said Echo publisher, Connla McCann. Assembly from 1987 to 1998. Congressman Joe Crowley.
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www.irishecho.com / Irish Echo / JUNE 6 - 12, 2018 / Page 20 New York - New Belfast Conference Honorary Chairs Andrea Haughian, Bill Cox, Christine Quinn, CM Daniel-Dromm, Erin Doyle, Francis Schott, Invest NI Partner Cox CEO Win New York City Council Producer, Saturday Restaurateur New York Law Firm, LLC Night Live Stage Left Jim Clerkin, President John J. Reilly, Partner John Connorton, Desmond Lyons, Larry Kirwan, Leo McGuire, LPM & CEO Möet Squire Patton Boggs Partner Hawkins Lyons McGovern LLP Songwriter and Strategies LLC. Hennessey, USA Delafield & Wood LLP Playwright Lorraine Turner, John Lee, Executive Brian McCabe, Susan McKeown, Representative Rob Walsh, NI Bureau Director, Goodman Chairman, American Executive Director of Mike Fitzpatrick, Columbia New York Media International Irish Historical Cuala Foundation New York State University Society, NY Assembly Mary Ann Pierce, Nick Malito, President Shaun Kelly, Global Steve Lenox, Suzanne Aquino, Nigel Eccles, MAP Digital IBO Chief Operating Officer Co-President Irish Global Category Head- CEO Flick KPMG International Network USA Professional Services, Chain IQ Geraldine Hughes, Liam Lynch, Irish Terry George, Director Erin Rice, Maura Kelly Jennifer M. Frankola, Actor, Writer, Producer Studio, NY and Screenwriter Political Action Emmy-winning Attorney, Lewis Johs Committee Producer, Marketer Avallone Aviles LLP, International Union of Partnerships Islandia, New York Operating Board of Directors, Engineers, Local 825 IIBN-NewYork
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www.irishecho.com / Irish Echo / JUNE 6 - 12, 2018 / Page 22 New York - New Belfast Conference Speakers and Participants MODERATOR MODERATOR MODERATOR MODERATOR Leo McGuire Paul Nicholas John Lee LPM Strategies McErlean Malito Executive Director, LLC xxx Attorney at Goodman Media Schnader Harrison International Segal & Lewis LLP and President of the Irish Business Organization of New York Christine Rick O’Meara the Marsho-Raimo Award from the United Andrew Richard M. O’Meara is a Federation of Teachers (UFT). Kinealy Dromm is the founder of the Queens Lesbian McCullough Since completing her PhD retired Brigadier General, Andrew is WIP’s Director USA, and trial attorney and Gay Pride Committee and has organized the at Trinity College in first Queens LGBT Pride Parade and Festival, of Communications, Ireland, Christine Kinealy who presently serves as based in New York. the Director of the which he still puts on the first Sunday in June in has worked in educational Jackson Heights. Dromm co-founded the Queens Originally from Belfast, and research institutes in Division of Global Affairs, Andrew received an MA Rutgers University. He Chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Dublin, Belfast and Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG), as well as the and MSc (in Psychology England and, more has received a PhD in and International Politics) Global Affairs from Generation Q Youth Services Program in Astoria. recently, in the USA. In He also helped found the Queens Pride House. from the University of September 2013, Professor Kinealy was appointed Rutgers University and a Juris Doctorate from Edinburgh, with a focus on political activity Fordham University. He has also received two A fluent Spanish-speaker, Daniel has been the founding Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger honored by the Sociedad Puertorriqueña de within immigrant and diaspora populations. Prior Institute at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Masters Degrees in History and International to joining WIP, Andrew was a senior political Affairs and graduated from the US Army War Queens. He is a member of the NAACP – Professor Kinealy has published extensively Corona/East Elmhurst branch and has also been advisor in the UK Parliament, managing the on modern Ireland, with a focus on the Great College and the US Army Command and General SDLP’s office in the House of Commons. He was Staff College amongst other schools. He honored by the Korean-American Association of Hunger. These publications include, This Great Central Queens. In October of 2006, Dromm awarded a Parliamentary Researcher of the Year Calamity. The Great Irish Famine 1845-52, Repeal presently teaches in the Division of Global Affairs award for his work on policy areas including at Rutgers University and the Holocaust Studies received a Community Leadership Award from and Revolution. 1848 in Ireland, and Daniel the TimesLedger newspapers. international development and legacy issues O’Connell and Abolition. The Saddest People the Program, Stockton University and has developed related to the Northern Ireland peace process. Sun Sees, and her most recent book, Charity and and taught in the first Homeland Security Studies Program in New Jersey. In the days and months the Great Hunger in Ireland. The Kindness of Larry Kirwan Strangers. More recently, she completed a following 9/11, O’Meara worked as an EMT and Larry Kirwan was the Brett Zych graphic novel on the Great Hunger, entitled, ‘The Red Cross Responder at the World Trade Center Hailing from Ardglass, leader of the Irish Bad Times’ or, in its Irish language version, ‘An Site. His interests are reflected in courses he has Co. Down, Brett has been political rock band Black Droch Shaol’. Professor Kinealy is also a Director taught and developed over the years at various in New York for just over 47 for 25 years. A of the Frederick Douglass Ireland Project, and is institutions including War Crimes, Genocide, and 3 years. He joined playwright and novelist, currently completing a book on ‘Frederick International Law, Nationalism and Ethnic Jefferies in June 2016 on an Irish Echo columnist Douglass in Ireland’. Violence, Intelligence Law and Function, US the European Equity and host/producer of Professor Kinealy has lectured throughout Security Interests in Sub-Saharan Africa, US Sales desk, covering Celtic Crush on SiriusXM the world on the Great Hunger. In 1997, she was Security Interests in the North Pacific, Human small New York Hedge Satellite Radio, he has invited to speak to invited audiences in both in Rights Law and Practice, Nuremberg: the Trial funds and larger asset written 16 plays and musicals, three novels, a the British Houses of Parliament and in the and It’s Legacy for the International Legal managers in the Midwest. memoir, and A History of Irish Music. He is American Congress on this topic. Since 2013, Community, Contemporary Issues in International Prior to this, he was consulting for several large president of Irish American Writers and Artists. Professor Kinealy has been named one of the top Law, The American Way of War, Evolution of the US banks with KPMG (Oct 2014-May 2016). Brett His play, Rebel in the Soul, finished a successful 100 educators in Irish America. In March 2014, Global System and Human Development. began his career with Cowen in New York (Jan run at The Irish Repertory Theater, NYC, on May she was also inducted into the Irish America Hall As an Adjunct Faculty member of the 2011-Dec 2011) under the auspices of the USNI 21st and he is currently recording songs for his of Fame. Earlier this this year, she won an Emmy Defense Institute for International Legal Studies, Mentorship program set by then-US Special latest musical, IRAQ. for her contribution to the documentary, ‘The O’Meara has traveled to such diverse locations as Economic Envoy Declan Kelly. Following this, he Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora’. Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine, Slovenia, then spent nearly 3 years in London with Cowen the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Erin Rice on the US Equity Sales team. Brett is a former Peru, El Salvador, Panama, Guinea, Rwanda, Erin is currently the pupil of St Patrick’s Grammar in Downpatrick and Nathan Chad, Sierra Leone and Iraq where he has taught Coordinator of graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a Richardson rule of law and governance issues to civil and Community Relations and BSc. in Management and Spanish in July 2010. Nathan M. Richardson is military stakeholders and helped to develop the Political Action Brett is a keen fisherman, reader and runner. an accomplished programs designed to strengthen constructive Committee for the performance poet and relationships between members of civil and International Union of published author based military society. Operating Engineers, Jerry Hanweck out of Suffolk, Virginia. As a Fellow in the Stockdale Center for Local 825. In her role For over 20 years, Gerald His published collections Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy, with the Operating Hanweck, CEO and are “Likeness of Being” O’Meara worked with colleagues towards the Engineers, Erin works to track projects and founder of Hanweck, has and “Twenty-one adaption of military ethics to emerging economic development throughout Local 825’s been at the forefront of Imaginary T-shirts.” He has also contributed to technologies and he has written and presented territory, which covers all of New Jersey and five derivatives research, the following anthologies: The Poets Domain, The widely in the area of the use of robotics and other counties of New York State, as well as strategy and technology Cupola, The Channel Marker and Skipping technologies as tools of war. He continues this coordinating the Union’s Political Action innovation. Prior to Stones. Richardson teaches a variety of work as a member of CETMONS, Consortium for Committees. founding Hanweck, he workshops for emerging writers and his past Emerging Technologies, Military Operations and Previously she worked at Lenox Consulting, a spent ten years with residences include creative writing instructor for National Security, The International Society for US and Ireland based strategic communications JPMorgan, where he served as Chief Equity the Camp Rise Summer Arts Program which was Military Ethics, the International Association of firm. Prior to entering the private sector, Erin Derivatives Strategist and led the bank’s U.S. awarded the 2012 National Arts & Humanities Genocide Scholars and CIVIC, Campaign for served as an aide in the office of Congressman Fixed-Income Derivatives Strategy team. Earlier in Youth Program Award from The White House. Innocent Civilians in Conflict. Bill Pascrell, Jr. In addition to her governmental his career, he worked as a derivatives researcher role, Erin also worked on the Congressman’s re- at Discount Corporation of New York Futures, and elections efforts, serving as Campaign Manager, as a software developer at Microsoft. Glenn Patterson Daniel Dromm A frequent industry speaker, Mr. Hanweck Glenn Patterson is the and has worked on countless campaigns in Daniel Dromm has been a has also taught master’s-level business courses author of ten novels, various other capacities. progressive leader in at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate including Gull (2016), Erin is a founding Member of the Board of Queens for over 20 years. School of Management and the Graduate School which tells the story of the Irish Network’s New Jersey Chapter, and was An award-winning public of Business at the University of Chicago, in John DeLorean and the named 2016 Irish American Youth Ambassador by school teacher, Dromm addition to dozens of seminars on financial Belfast factory where the the Irish Echo. She is a member of the non- was elected to the New derivatives. Mr. Hanweck holds a PhD in DMC12 sports car was partisan Women’s Political Caucus, NJ SEED, and York City Council in 2009 managerial economics and decision science from built. The Mill for Grinding has been honored for her dedication to New and represents District 25 the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Old People Young (2012) Jersey’s Labor community. She was elected to (Jackson Heights & Northwestern University, and an AB in was Belfast’s first One serve as a delegate to the 2012 Democratic Elmhurst). He serves as the Chair of the mathematics from Princeton University. City One Book choice. He has also published two National Convention. She earned a Bachelor of Education Committee. collections of his journalism and a memoir, Once Arts in English with a Journalism Concentration Prior to his election, Dromm was an award- Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times. He is the co- from Montclair State University. A lifelong New winning New York City public school teacher at writer (with Colin Carberry) of Good Vibrations Jersey girl, Erin now lives in Montclair. PS 199Q in Queens from 1984 to 2009. In 2006, (BBC Films) and wrote the libretto for Long Story Dromm was chosen as “Outstanding Teacher of Short: the Belfast Opera. He is director of the the Year” by his school’s principal and in 2009, Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s. he was chosen as “Educator of the Year” by the Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside. He has also received
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www.irishecho.com / Irish Echo / JUNE 6 - 12, 2018 / Page 24 New York - New Belfast Conference Speakers and Participants Raffaella Folli system, and more. Corey has also been able to Cannes, and Berlinale. Her radio work has been International and Teterboro Airports. ( $700 Raffaella Folli is a forge consensus on tough issues to achieve long- broadcast on BBC Radio across the UK, RTE, and million in annual revenues) Professor of Linguistics, sought goals in Council District 3. He won the in the US, Canada, and Germany. She has been Goal is to leverage management, business Head of School of creation of a new public park in Chelsea and profiled as a theatre director in The Stage development and labor negotiating experience to Communication and negotiated a landmark land-use agreement to magazine, and her theatre work has toured the full benefit for my organization. Provost of the Belfast and save Hudson River Park’s Pier 40 and its athletic extensively across the UK and Ireland. Specialties: Union negotiations, airline Jordanstown Campuses fields, while creating nearly 500 units of development, cargo development and leveraging at Ulster University . She affordable housing and a new South Village synergies in transportation mergers and studied Philosophy at the Historic District. Tom Di Napoli acquisitions. Strategic business development for He is a member of the Council’s LGBT Caucus Thomas P. DiNapoli is the target airport situations.Expert in Port University of Milan. In and is the only HIV positive elected official in 54th Comptroller of the development for cars, cocoa and containers. 1998 she completed an MPhil in Linguistics at the New York State. State of New York. A life- University of Oxford and then in 2001 a DPhil in long Long Islander, Tom Linguistics, also at the University of Oxford. She joined Ulster University in 2005 having previously was raised in a middle- Sentor Tim held research positions at the University of Geraldine Hughes class, union household Kennedy Geraldine Hughes and saw the value of hard Senator Tim Kennedy, Arizona (2001-2001) and then the University of received the Los Angeles work and stretching every born on October 20, 1976, Cambridge (2002-2005) . Ovation, Garland and dollar in the example set is a lifelong Western New Her main research area is theoretical syntax. Drama Critics Circle by his parents. York resident. Tim grew Her standing in linguistics is evidenced by her Awards and a Drama In 1972, Tom won his first election and served up in a blue-collar family extensive publications in top journals in the field, League Award as a trustee on the Mineola Board of Education, in Buffalo, where his various grants from different research councils Nomination for becoming the first 18-year-old in New York State parents, Marty and Mary and extensive collaborations with academics in Outstanding Performance to hold public office. He attended Hofstra Kennedy, raised Tim and the UK and the US. In 2011 she was awarded a for her solo play Belfast University, earning a bachelor’s degree in history his four siblings to work hard, focus on their Distinguished Research Fellowship award in Blues, which she also and graduated magna cum laude in 1976. He education, help their neighbors, and get involved recognition of her research achievements. wrote. Stage credits include Jerusalem opposite worked in the telecommunications industry for 10 in their community. Tim and his wife, Katie, live in She is part of the linguistics team that in Mark Rylance after (Broadway & West End years, and went to night classes and earned a the City of Buffalo where they are raising their 2012 established the Ulster Centre on productions.) Other theatre credits include: master’s degree from The New School three children, Connor, Eireann, and Padraic. Multilingualism (UCoM), an information service Particle Of Dread (opposite Stephen Rea), Cyrano University’s Graduate School of Management and Since being sworn into office in January 2011, for people raising or working with children De Bergerac (Broadway), Translations Urban Professions. Tim has kept a strong focus on protecting the growing up with more than one language. As part (Broadway), Molly Sweeney (Irish Repertory In 1986, he ran for the New York State most vulnerable in our community. He of UCoM, she is involved in Language Made Fun, Theatre), Pumpgirl (MTC), ), Orson’s Shadow, The Assembly and was elected to represent the 16th spearheaded the passage of Jay-J’s law, a programme designed to support the language Cripple of Inishmaan, The Weir, The Architect. District in northwestern Nassau County for the legislation that Tim introduced to stiffen penalties needs of multilingual children or migrant children Television credits include: Kevin Can Wait,The next 20 years. Tom was elected State Comptroller on repeat child abusers. The legislation was in Northern Ireland. The programme is in Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Nurse Jackie, Mercy, The on Feb. 7, 2007 by a bipartisan majority of the inspired by Jay J Bolvin, a young boy who was collaboration with the Barnardo’s and is funded Good Wife, Law and Order CI, Law & Order SVU, State Legislature. He was elected Comptroller by brutally abused by his father. Sadly, Jay J’s father by a grant by Big Lottery Fund. Law & Order, Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic New York’s voters in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. received a light sentence due to antiquated Riddle, ER. She has starred in several features Tom is known for his integrity, independence and sentencing laws. Tim worked with colleagues in Jayne Brady including The Book Of Henry, Gran Torino, Rocky even-keeled leadership. both the Senate and the Assembly to secure Jayne joined Kernel Balboa, Time Out Of Mind and Killing Lincoln. His record of accomplishments include passage of Jay J’s Law. Since then, he has Capital 2013 having held Geraldine received an honorary doctorate from identifying billions in waste, fraud and cost pushed through several pieces of legislation to a Senior Executive role in Queens University, Belfast for her contribution to savings in government, uncovering corruption in reform Child Protective Services, as well as Kernel Capital portfolio the arts. She is currently appearing in Harry State and local governments, leading to dozens Jackie’s Law, which protects victims of domestic company since 2007. Potter and The Cursed Child on Broadway. of arrests and tens of millions in restitution, violence from GPS stalking. Jayne’s investment focus providing robust oversight of school district Tim has also fought to protect Western New is ICT, Telecoms and operations and education spending, successfully York’s seniors. He worked with community and Engineering. Jayne is Michael Alcorn advocating for State law changes to increase Michael Alcorn joined the government leaders to secure funds to transform currently Chairman of the oversight of special education contractors after the former Holy Family Elementary School in staff at the School of widespread abuse was found, developing an early Institute of Engineering Buffalo into a senior apartment complex. He also Music at Queen’s warning system to identify municipalities and and Technology in Northern Ireland (2013/2014), fought for a significant increase in eligibility for University Belfast in 1989 school districts showing signs of fiscal stress, and holds and has held a number of advisory and EPIC, a state program to help pay for prescription as Composer-in- managing the third largest public pension fund in board roles with organisations focused on drugs. With Tim’s support, the income eligibility Residence and later took the nation through difficult losses during the economic and social development.Jayne’s career for single seniors has increased from $35,000 to up a lecturing position at Great Recession, reformed how it operates and has involved leadership positions with both $75,000, and has increased for couples from the University. He devised received high praise for industry leading multinationals and start-ups, across a variety of $50,000 to $100,000. This has opened up and developed the Music standards, investing nearly $2 billion in private operational and executive roles. Jayne has lived eligibility to thousands more seniors in Western Technology pathway at equity and loan programs to benefit New York- and worked in culturally and politically complex New York. Queen’s, the first such programme in Ireland, and based businesses. environments in a variety of global locations led the successful bid to develop the Sonic Arts including Europe, China, India and North Research Centre, a multi-million-dollar research Gareth Maguire America. Roles have included international sales, centre that linked researchers in music, electrical John O’Donoghue business development, corporate due diligence John O’Donoghue is CEO Gareth Maguire has engineering and computer science. SARC was been at the forefront of and ownership of a range of cross functional Senior Vice President and opened in 2004 and remains a key international the Sport Changes Life technical projects of scale. Director of Equities at research facility for work in immersive 3D audio movement since the pilot as applied in the game and film industries. OTR Global, a very highly regarded global primary of the Victory Scholarship Corey Johnson Michael Alcorn’s compositional interests lie at the Program in University of intersection between instrumental writing and research firm servicing Corey Johnson was the largest mutual funds Ulster in 2007. elected by his peers to areas of new media creative practice involving There has been 28 experimental technologies. His music has been and hedge funds. In a serve as Speaker of the 30+ year career on Wall Victory Scholars in total New York City Council on performed and broadcast in the UK, Europe, since its launch in Sport North and South America, and the Far East. He Street, John has run the January 3, 2018. He was Equities division at Cowen & Co (a mid tier Changes Life, formerly USNI Sport. The idea of re-elected in 2017 with has received commissions from the BBC, the bringing elite scholar athletes from America to National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Investment Bank), where he was a member of the 94% of the vote to Operating and Executive committee. He was head earn a Masters and at the same time work in the represent Council District Nash Ensemble, Singcircle, the Smith Quartet, local community and raise the aspirations of Darragh Morgan, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, of Equity trading at Credit-Suisse and a member 3, which includes the of the firm’s Global Equity Operating committee young people in sport, all while playing the sport neighborhoods of Opera Theatre Company and the Ulster Orchestra. they love came from Co-Founders CEO Gareth In recent years he has worked on film music and and prior to CS he was a partner at Schroders Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, PLC. Whilst at Cowen & Co. John was Maguire, Professor Deirdre Brennan at the Flatiron, West SoHo, Hudson Square, the sound design projects in the UK and US. He was University of Ulster and International business Director of SARC from its inception in 2001 and instrumental in opening an office in Belfast in Meatpacking District, Columbus Circle, Times 2012, with particular assistance from Invest NI, man Mark Marais. Square, the Theater District, the Garment District later became head of the School of Music, Film CEO Gareth Maguire has lead the way with and Drama. Along with colleagues at Ulster the office still currently employs 50 people. and part of the Upper West Side. John still maintains extremely strong ties his vision to help develop basketball and change Raised in a union household where his University he has been leading a major research the lives of young people of Ireland through sport and capacity-building project around the with Northern Ireland, working closely with both mother, a homeless services provider, and his the Queen’s University and Catalyst-Inc.He has developing EHOOPS Programs and Sports father, a Teamster, instilled in him the values of enhancement of the creative industries, Programs with his wife Deirdre. The Victory particularly the screen industries in Northern served and continues to serve on private community service and political engagement, companies and charities both in the US and Scholarship program has gone from strength to Corey came to national attention in 1999 when, Ireland. He is now Professor of Composition and strength in the past number of years with a Dean of Internationalisation in the Faculty of Arts, Ireland. John is graduate of Queen’s University as the captain of his high school football team, and is a trustee on The Foundation Board. rebrand of the company in early 2012 to Sport he took the courageous step of coming out Humanities and Social Sciences. Changes Life. publicly as gay. Corey’s actions landed him on the front page of the New York Times and he began Aislinn Clarke Ed Harrison telling his story to audiences of young people Transportation Executive Tim Murray Aislinn Clarke is an Tim Murray was hired as across the country. He would later serve as in port and airport award-winning Director of Athletics at chairperson of Manhattan’s Community Board 4, development. Personal scriptwriter, film-maker Marist College on Feb. 17, becoming the youngest person to chair a experience includes and director, whose work 1995. His athletic community board in the five boroughs. marketing and has been professionally paradigm of Corey has earned a reputation as a tenacious development seaports on produced for film, stage, commitment, leadership, advocate for his constituents and a prolific the U.S. east coast and and radio internationally. integrity, discipline and legislator at City Hall. He has passed dozens of hub airports and major Her film work has been accountability has proven pieces of legislation, standing up for tenants, general aviation airports. screened and showcased to be a model for victims of domestic violence, transgender New Managing, at film festivals, events, unprecedented success and growth for Marist Yorkers, those involved with our criminal justice marketing and developing Newark Liberty and markets all over the world, including BAFTA,
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www.irishecho.com / Irish Echo / JUNE 6 - 12, 2018 / Page 26 New York - New Belfast Conference Speakers and Participants athletics during his tenure. The following year, the team won the Atlantic 10 Professor of Architecture His research is focused on both the creative Under Murray’s direction, Marist athletics Championship, just three years into the tenure of and Director of the industries and the ways in which theory and has undergone exceptional growth and Head Coach Stephanie Gaitley. The softball Graduate Program in practice can be brought together in research, achievement since joining the Metro Atlantic program steadily became a regional powerhouse Urban Design at City training and education. Most recently he has Athletic Conference in 1997, becoming one of the under Reilly, as well, advancing to the NCAA College of New York. His been involved in various arts data research most competitive programs in the MAAC. In the Tournament in six of seven seasons, with the previous academic projects with national bodies such as NESTA in 2013-14 school year, Marist captured its 12th winningest coach at Fordham University, Bridget engagements include the UK. He has published widely in a range of overall Commissioner’s Cup, which is awarded as Orchard, at the helm. Professor of Urbanism journals/books and his practice has been a symbol of overall excellence in athletics. That and Director of the exhibited in a number of commissioned gallery total is the most of any school in conference Institute of Urbanism at exhibitions in London, Coventry, Belfast, Derry, history. The Red Foxes are the only school in Rajesh Rana the Academy of Fine Arts Lough Neagh, and the National Gallery of conference history to win four consecutive MAAC Rajesh Rana is Director in Vienna, Gensler Chair at Cornell University, Namibia. Commissioner’s Cups, while capturing 30 overall of Andras House ltd, Hyde Chair in Nebraska University, Saarinen He was the Ofcom Content Board member Commissioner’s Cups since Murray began at his which is Belfast largest Chair in the University of Michigan, Gilbert Chair for Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2013. From post. hotel group and an in the University of Michigan, both the Davenport 1995 to 2004 he was also a board member of the On Feb. 15, 2014, Marist became the first established property and Bishop Chair at Yale University, and Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission school in MAAC history to win 100 conference development company. professorships at the Architectural Association, and chaired the education committee which championships when it captured the women’s Rajesh trained Cooper Union, Harvard University, and Columbia developed the seminal Wider Literacy policy swimming & diving title. Through the 2014-15 as an architect at Oxford University. document. In his spare time he is a freelance school year, the Red Foxes have won a School of Architecture, Sorkin is architecture critic for The Nation, broadcaster with BBC Radio Ulster and has conference record total of 106 MAAC and specialised in urban contributing editor at Architectural Record, and written and presented a range of documentaries championships. In addition, Murray has design. He worked in this field across the UK and author or editor of twenty books. His books for BBC national radio. increased the varsity sports from 20 to 23, Ireland, and produced the original Development include Variations on a Theme Park, Exquisite adding women’s soccer, women’s lacrosse and Framework for Titanic Quarter while working at Corpse, Local Code, Giving Ground (edited with women’s water polo. Turley Associates. Joan Copjec), Michael Sorkin Studio: Wiggle Cllr Donal Lyons Under Murray’s leadership, Marist student- At Andras House, Rajesh is responsible for (Works in Progress), Some Assembly Required, Donal Lyons is 33, a athletes have also thrived in the classroom and hotel operations and property development. The Other Plans, The Next Jerusalem, After The Trade Dublin native and a UCD the community. The Red Foxes won the MAAC company, which was established by his father, Center (edited with Sharon Zukin), Starting From Science graduate who Pepsi Goodworks Challenge in 2013, 2014 and Lord Rana, owns and operates six hotels and Zero, Analyzing Ambasz, Against the Wall, has lived in South Belfast 2015, which goes to the top conference’s top serviced apartments sites in the city. The group Indefensible Space, New Orleans Under since 2006. school for community service. Marist also led the is about to open its seventh hotel, Hampton by Reconstruction (edited with Carol Reese and Donal replaced Claire conference in selections to its Academic Honor Hilton Belfast City Centre, which will be the first Anthony Fontenot), All Over the Map, and Twenty Hanna as Councillor for Roll for the 14th year in a row in the 2014-15 Hampton on the island of Ireland. Andras is also Minutes in Manhattan. Balmoral in July 2015 school year. extending and refurbishing two of its existing In 2005, Sorkin founded Terreform, and is after Claire took up her Murray has overseen the improvement of hotels, bring the total room count of the group to currently its president. He is editor-in-chief of its new role in the Assembly. athletic facilities all over the Marist campus in 1000. imprint, UR (Urban Research), which was Donal is a member of the City Growth and recent years. In the fall of 2011, extensive Rajesh is working on plans for a new hotels launched in 2015. He is on the board of several Regeneration Committee and the People and renovations to the James J. McCann Recreation in Portrush and Derry, major grade A offices in civic and professional organizations such as Communities Committee of Belfast City Council. Center were completed. The newly-branded Belfast and further projects in Belfast. Urban Design Forum (Vice President) and the Donal is also on the board of the South McCann Arena now features chair-back seating, Rajesh is currently Senior Vice President of Architectural League of New York (Director). He Belfast Partnership Board, is a member of video boards and a new playing surface. An Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce. He is is also a member of the International Committee Amnesty International, the National Union of 11,660-square foot addition connected to the actively involved in the development community of Architectural Critics. Journalists, the Drumglass Wind Energy Co- south end of the McCann Center includes new has been responsible for bringing together a Sorkin has been the recipient of several operative and the Boundary Brewing offices, locker rooms, player lounges, conference group of stakeholders and community groups in fellowships and awards. His recent awards Cooperative. rooms, video editing rooms and a film theater. the south west of the city centre, with the include “Design Mind” from the National Design Donal was previously employed by the Irish The building also received lobby and restroom purpose of coordinating major capital projects Award in 2013; and Fellow in the field of Labour Party and Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore and renovations. that are planned for the area. architecture planning and design from the John has worked in the field of public policy and law Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2015. reform and as an SDLP activist since moving to Belfast. Marianne Reilly Michael George Donal is married to Claire Hanna MLA and Marianne Reilly ’82 was Michael George is a Philip Cassidy they have two young children. introduced as Manhattan partner with The Versant Philip has responsibility College’s director of Group (“Versant”), a real for solutions, pricing and intercollegiate athletics estate focused asset strategic projects as well management company. Francis Schott on March 30, 2016 by the as developing, deploying Francis Schott and his school’s president, Dr. Prior to joining Versant and maintaining our partners own Stage Left Brennan O’Donnell, and in 2017, Mr. George technology platforms. and Catherine Lombardi vice president for student served as a Managing They enable improved Restaurants in New life, Dr. Richard Satterlee. Director of Fortress customer engagement Brunswick, NJ for 25 “Marianne Reilly brings to Manhattan an Investment Group LLC. Prior to joining Fortress in and better business and 11 years respectively. impressive record of accomplishment as an 2009, Mr. George spent ten years with Deutsche outcomes on behalf of more than 450 clients With numerous awards, administrator and educator,” said O’Donnell. “As Bank where he was most recently a Managing supported by Concentrix staff. Under Philip’s each has been an accomplished student-athlete, a former coach, Director in the Institutional Client Group with leadership, Concentrix has created an ecosystem considered among the and an alumna of the College, she has a deep responsibility for the Bank’s largest North to streamline front- and back-office functions best in the state since understanding of what is needed to excel in this American clients. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank that adapts to industry-specific processes while it’s opening. He also consults on food and important position.” in 1999, Mr. George served as Co-Head of improving performance via actionable data. beverage to the industry. He had a hand in “I am extremely excited to be to be able to Mortgage Backed Securities Trading at Lehman helping Belfast organize its successful come home to Manhattan College,” Reilly said. Brothers where he started his career in 1986. Paul Moore Restaurant Week promotions. He is a “It is a dream come true and I would like to Mr. George graduated from St. Catharine’s Professor Moore joined professional wine and spirits judge. thank both President O’Donnell and Dr. Satterlee College, Cambridge University with an the University of Ulster Francis took an active role in the for this amazing opportunity.” undergraduate degree in Engineering Science in 1999 and has since redevelopment of New Brunswick, and sat on the One of 39 female ADs at the Division I level, and a postgraduate diploma in Computer been active in the board of The Special Improvement District of that Reilly returned to her alma mater as the first Science. Whilst at Cambridge University Mr. development of the town. He is an advocate for redeveloping female athletic director in the school’s history. George played Rugby for the University 1st XV for creative arts/industries communities, for the arts and for the role one She arrived in Riverdale with a diverse portfolio three years, ‘walking-on’ to the team. policy in the university. can play in the other. He has regularly testified of work in collegiate athletics administration He was head of the before the NJ State Senate and Assembly. He after spending three decades at nearby Fordham School of Creative Arts holds a leadership role on the board of The New University, where Reilly began her career as an Tom DiGati and Technologies from Tom is the VP of Client Jersey Restaurant Association and has assistant in recreation, facility management and 2008 to 2017 and has now been appointed as represented the NJRA in the media and in front Success at Unosquare, a club sports. She was elevated to associate head of a new School of Communication and of government on issues concerning small Portland, Oregon based director of athletics in 1996 to accompany her Media. He is a Director of Ulster’s Creative business. software engineering responsibilities as the senior woman Industries Institute (CII). He was awarded a He is a noted public speaker and consultant firm that provides IT administrator for the Rams’ athletic department. personal chair in 2009 becoming Professor of on food, wine, beverage and community. For 5 consulting and builds In her prior position, Reilly served on the Creative Technologies at the Magee campus, and years, he was co-host of The Restaurant Guys web and mobile leadership team of Fordham’s Athletic was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in radio program. applications for BFSI, Department and supervised NCAA compliance, 2014. Healthcare, and academic eligibility and athletic training while Software customers. also serving as a sport administrator for a Unosquare has been one of the 100 fastest number of varsity programs. Reilly also served growing private businesses in Oregon four years on the Atlantic 10 Conference’s Strategic in a row and was most recently named on the Planning Committee. Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in During her years at Fordham, Reilly the USA for 2015, 2016 and 2017. Tom lives in the mentored many coaches, administrators and Philadelphia suburbs with his wife and two student-athletes and oversaw the successful children. development of the women’s basketball and softball programs. In 2013, Fordham’s women’s basketball team christened Brooklyn’s new Michael Sorkin Barclays Center by reaching the championship Michael Sorkin is the principal and founder of game of the A-10 tournament, a game that Michael Sorkin Studio. His practice and work garnered the highest attendance ever recorded spans design, criticism and pedagogy. for an A-10 women’s basketball championship. Since 2000, Sorkin has been Distinguished
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www.irishecho.com / Irish Echo / JUNE 6 - 12, 2018 / Page 28 New York - New Belfast Conference 2018 Hanweck the innovator at Northwestern University. pmcdermott@irishecho.com Searching around for a dissertation By Peter McDermott topic, he asked a friend of his father’s Gerald A. Hanweck Jr. during his for some ideas. He had none, but sug- career has left not just one but two gested that the doctoral student work iconic American corporations – in both part-time for his brokerage firm. instances, when the company was get- Hanweck had heard, however, ting to the next level. through friends at the University of First there was Microsoft, which in Chicago that doctoral programs didn’t 1989 as a recent graduate he decided permit its students to work and so he had already become too big with 500 approached the dean with some trepi- or so employees. “That’s not really dation. what I’d signed up for,” he said. “He looks pretty sternly at me and He repeated that sentiment when slaps the desk,” he recalled of the describing his later move from J.P. dean’s reaction, “‘Thank God, some- Morgan & Co. not long after it had one around here wants to go get a real merged with Chase Manhattan Bank at job!’” the turn of the millennium to become At that real job he met a few new JPMorgan Chase, a giant in world mentors and when they all joined J.P. banking. Morgan, the by-now Dr. Hanweck fol- In the case of that first departure, lowed them. He spent 10 years there which led him back to university to through 2003. “He served,” says his study for his doctorate, Hanweck, it company’s website, “as Chief Equity seems, is expected to make the per- Derivatives Strategist and led the functory statement of regret. bank's U.S. Fixed-Income Derivatives “I kick myself for not sticking Strategy team.” through with it and getting all the Although J.P. Morgan was a compa- stock and stock options,” he said. But ny with thousands of employees, a big the CEO doesn’t look at all unhappy history and its own bureaucracies, it sitting in the offices of the company still had a “small feel” and in Gerald A. Hanweck Jr., the CEO and founder of Hanweck, pictured last Friday outside that bears his name on the 42nd Floor Hanweck’s sphere, he could work with the New York Stock Exchange, which is close to his company’s headquarters at 30 at 30 Broad St., in the Financial District a degree of independence. Broad St. It has also has offices in Chicago and established its first overseas base in in Downtown Manhattan. “We could be fairly innovative and Belfast in 2015. Hanweck, says its website, “is the nimble,” he said. American market. “It’s a million differ- use it. So we think that was pretty leading provider of risk analytics as-a- After leaving, he become involved ent options, 5,000 different underlying innovative.” service with our real-time, data- Transatlantic move in real estate development in Las stocks, millions and millions of quotes enabled, global, cross-asset risk analyt- Vegas, which was, he said, “enlighten- a second. It’s a real computational ics platform.” ing in many ways,” and also prof- problem,” the CEO said. “And so, that “Innovation, flexibility, ability to get itable. formed the basis of our product suite When looking for ways to expand things done quickly,” the CEO and “While I did okay at it,” Hanweck as it is today.” globally and to service existing inter- founder said, enumerating some of the remembered, “it wasn’t what I wanted He said of programming and quan- national clients, the company settled advantages that smaller operations can to do long term.” titative financing, “bring the two on Belfast in 2015 as the ideal place to have. “Companies with big bureaucra- He did some consulting work back together and it becomes quite a power- set up an overseas office. Conor Allen, cies are not as nimble. You can’t take to companies like JPMorgan in part- ful combination. a friend and former colleague with advantage of new technology, take an nership with Michael Hollingsworth, “One of the things we’ve done as a roots there, recommended it initially, idea and run with it as easily.” who is now Hanweck’s chief operating firm is to bring together quant finance and the more Hanweck and A smaller company can be on the officer. and computer science to solve these Hollingsworth investigated the more cutting edge, which Hanweck has been “Then one day I was playing big problems,” Hanweck said. “They they liked what they saw. with its key role at the intersection of around with some of the new graphics may be relatively easy computer sci- Hanweck, which has offices in computer science and quantitative cards that Nvidia had put out — this ence problems but they may be hard Chicago, put together a team of four in finance. was about late 2006,” Hanweck said. quant finance, or vice versa.” Belfast. It’s now a team of eight and Its founder said, “We were the first “And I’d been interested in graphics Nvidia has gone on to make GPUs growing. The CEO added that Invest company to have a commercial prod- processing for compute for quite some for self-driving cars, and is involved Northern Ireland was very helpful in uct in the quantitative finance world time, but the hardware and software the establishment of the office and has with much of what happening in the that used GPUs [graphics processing had never quite been to this point.” continued to be in the three years fields of artificial intelligence and deep units]. He thought at the time: “Wow! I since. learning. “They’ve made a very nice ‘A real job’ can run these options calculations on business for themselves,” Hanweck “It’s a fabulous city. It’s got a really this graphic card, this thing you’d buy said. “We worked very closely with good technology talent pool. It’s got to play video games. I can run this 50 them in the early days and they told us strong universities around it,” “I grew up with finance and econom- times faster.” ‘Yeah, you guys are the first ones out Hanweck said. “It’s got all of the ics,” Hanweck said about his back- “Then I honed my code a little bit,” here.’ things that you could want globally.” ground. His father worked as an econ- he continued, “and it’s 100 times faster “Were other people doing some- He makes two or three visits a year, omist with the Federal Reserve System than on the regular computer and I in Washington. “He’s still a finance thing similar? Yeah, Bloomberg had and it has become favorite destination hone my code some more and it’s 200 real-time options data,” he added, for his family, too. He and his wife professor,” he said of Gerald A. times faster. This is pretty incredible! Hanweck Sr., who is also on the board “Most brokerage screens had some have taken their daughter, who’s 7, “I knew from my own career that and son, 5, all over Northern Ireland, of directors of his son’s company. real-time options data. We chose a dif- there would be demand for this kind of as well to Donegal and as far west as The younger Hanweck had always ferent path, which was to deliver the stuff,” Hanweck said, “stuff I would the Aran Islands. been interested in computer program- analytics as a service. And back in have wanted had it been available.” With those deepening bonds comes ming and after graduating from 2007, that whole as-a-service concept So he and Hollingsworth decided the concern caused by Brexit – not so Princeton with a degree in mathemat- was still forming. that they’d build a company around it. much for his own company, as it ics, he interviewed for the company “We said we’re not going to put out ‘Powerful founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates screens. That would just be competing shouldn’t be overly affected, but before it moved into its Redmond cam- with Bloomberg or Reuters or one of notions of “hard borders” are by their combination’ pus. When after a couple of years these other big guys,” Hanweck said. nature worrisome. Microsoft no longer felt like an exciting “But if we can sell the analytics as a “That would be a big step back for start-up, a doctorate beckoned at the Hanweck products calculate in real data stream, then customers could Ireland and I think Europe in general,” Kellogg Graduate School of Business time in the “monster” that is the build that into their own platforms and Hanweck said.
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