In the podcast today Melanie Boylan speaks to Martina Fitzgerald of Scale Ireland about the work they do to support business owners. Tech StartUps and ScaleUps all need support and essential sign posting to get started. Here we learn what’s involved and how the hard work of the tech industry of the last 12 months has actually improved against the backdrop of COVID.
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Martina Fitzgerald is the CEO of Scale Ireland, the independent not-for-profit organisation which represents and advocates on behalf of Ireland’s tech start-up and scale-up companies. Martina has two decades senior communications experience, including as RTÉ’s political correspondent. She is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed book, ‘Madam Politician: The women at the table of Irish political power’.
In 2019, Martina was a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University in New York, having earlier in the year delivered communications and empowerment training to pre-university women in Laos and Washington. She is a member of Ireland’s independent National Screening Advisory Committee and a board member of Dóchas.
? We are excited to announce that @MartinaFitzg is the new CEO of @ScaleIreland, the representative body for ?? tech start-ups & scale-ups.
For this next phase Martina will lead advocacy for the sector, ensuring tech startups can form part of the #innovationdrivenrecovery pic.twitter.com/lnZeITYBvC
— Scale Ireland (@ScaleIreland) November 15, 2020
Scale Ireland is an independent not-for-profit organisation which represents and advocates on behalf of Ireland’s tech start-up and scale-up companies. There are currently 2000 indigenous tech start-up and scale-up companies employing 47,000 people around the country.
Website; www.scaleireland.org
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