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Movers & Shakers
VAL GABRIEL
NEW TITLE: Managing Director for Ireland EMPLOYER: HP PREVIOUS ROLE: Marketing VP, HP
Val Gabriel is taking over from Gary Tierney as Managing Director for Ireland at HP, having held various leadership roles at HP over the past 25 years. Gabriel began his career there as a manufacturing engineer at the manufacturing site in Ireland. In his current role, he has successfully built the worldwide Search COE Marketing function covering HP’s full product portfolio.
BRÍD GRAHAM
NEW TITLE: SVP, Presidio Europe and APAC EMPLOYER: Presidio PREVIOUS ROLE: MD, Product Procurement, Presidio
Global digital services and solutions provider Presidio has promoted Bríd Graham to the role of Senior Vice President of Presidio Europe and APAC. This will see her assume overall leadership for the Presidio business that operates out of Dublin, where it currently employs over 300 people. She is taking over from Paschal Naylor, former CEO and Co-founder of Arkphire, who is retiring.
NEW APPOINTMENTS IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY NATIONWIDE
CONOR MCGINN
NEW TITLE: Executive Director EMPLOYER: EDC PREVIOUS ROLE: M&E Design Engineer, Mercury
Cork-headquartered engineering consultancy EDC has appointed Conor McGinn as Executive Director of its Dublin o ice. McGinn has worked in the construction industry for over 18 years, including at Delap & Waller, Smith + Anderson and Ethos. He has extensive experience in delivering large-scale projects.
PAUL STAPLEY
NEW TITLE: Practices & Portfolio Director EMPLOYER: Logicalis UK&I PREVIOUS ROLE: Cloud Practice Director, Logicalis UK&I
IT solutions and managed services provider Logicalis UK & Ireland (UK&I) has appointed Paul Stapley to the role of Practices & Portfolio Director, following two years as Cloud Practice Director. Prior to that he was MD of the UK business for a European managed services provider and spent around 20 years working for BT, Tandberg Television and Ericsson.
Despite a tighter labour market in Ireland, recent research suggests worker attachment to employers remains high. According to WTW’s latest Employee Attraction & Retention research, 70% of employees intend to remain with their employer for at least the next two years. This is an increase from 61% in 2019 and 58% in 2017. Security is top of mind for the 800+ employees in the 2022 survey: pay (50%) and job security (37%) are the key factors to attracting and retaining talent, followed by flexible work arrangements (32%).
