Craig R. Barrett was Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation from May, 2005 to May, 2009. He became Intel's fourth President in May of 1997 and Chief Executive Officer in 1998. He was elected to Intel's Board of Directors in 1992 and served as Chief Operating Officer from 1993 to 1997. Barrett began his tenure at Intel as a Technology Development manager in 1974.

Prior to joining Intel, Dr. Barrett was an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Hartnett is a senior technology executive & investor based in Silicon Valley.  He has over 25 years of executive level experience leading global sales, marketing, and operations. His career in high tech boasts some of the industry’s leading companies such as Palm, Handspring, Metacreations, Claris/Apple, AT&T, Digital Equipment, and Wang. 

He is founder and president of the Irish Technology Leadership Group, a network of global Irish technology leaders who’s main focus is to foster the links between Ireland and Silicon Valley in the areas of Innovation, Investment, Education & Entrepreneurship. He is also founder of both Irish Technology Capital, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm and the ‘Irish Innovation Center’, a San Jose based launching pad and incubator for Irish Technology companies. 

Previously he was Chief Executive Officer at G24 Innovations, a leading thin film solar company.  He held the position of Senior Vice President of Global Markets at Palm, Inc., a Nasdaq public company, where he was responsible for worldwide sales, service and support.   At Metacreations, a web services software company, he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing & Operations.

He currently serves on Secretary of State Clinton’s Northern Ireland Working Committee.  He is also a member of the Global Irish Economic Forum.

In 2011, he was the 25th Anniversary honoree for the “Spirit of Ireland” Award from the San Jose-Dublin Sister City Program.  Since 2004, he has been annually honored as one of the top 100 Irish American business executives in the U.S. by Irish America Magazine. He is a member of the Wireless Advisory Board in the U.S. for Enterprise Ireland, on the board of the University of Limerick Foundation and is a key member of Limerick Institute of Technology’s (LIT) ‘Thought Leadership’ team. He is a member of The American Ireland Fund.  He is the current Chairman of the Board of Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG), a leading global ICT research and innovation center in Waterford, Ireland.

Hartnett holds a Marketing Graduateship from the Marketing Institute of Ireland & a post-graduate diploma in Finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).   He has completed the executive management program at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

John Stanton is the President of the Irish Innovation Center (IIC) dedicated to the growth of Irish technology start-ups in the Silicon Valley. He also serves as Executive Director of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG), a non-profit aimed at helping Ireland embrace new technology opportunities. In addition, John is a member of the Irish Technology Capital (ITC) management team investing in "Market Changing" early stage, high growth companies.

John has amassed a wide variety of technology and entrepreneurial experience over his 25 year career. Prior to joining the IIC in 2010, John served as President of MarketMinds, a consultancy firm he founded dedicated to bringing new products to market. He also served as Founder and CEO of CubeGuard, a simple but elegant office productivity tool for preventing interruptions and communicating availability status to coworkers.

Prior to founding his own companies, John served at Palm as Vice President of Product Marketing, Vice President of Mobile Software and Services, and Vice President Customer Support and E-Commerce. Previous to that, he held various leadership positions with several top technology companies in the Silicon Valley including: Apple, Intuit, Hewlett Packard and Eclipse, a highly successful supply chain consulting firm where he played a key leadership role in building the company's double and triple digit growth.

Johnny has over 20 years of executive management and operations experience with high tech consumer electronics and manufacturing companies.

At Nest, Johnny is responsible for the company's worldwide manufacturing, distribution, installation and service operations.  Prior to joining Nest, Johnny was GM at Sling Media, the digital media company that develops and markets the Slingbox and SlingPlayer technologies.  He was a key member of the management team responsible for growing Sling from a startup technology company to being acquired by and becoming a critical part of Echostar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS), the Denver based video technology provider.  

Before Sling, Johnny worked at smartphone device manufacturer Handspring (acquired by Palm) and prior to that, with Iomega Corporation.  He also spent 10 years in the strategic and operations consulting practices of Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting, now Accenture.  He has extensive international experience having worked in England, the Netherlands and Australia, before moving himself and his family in the US in 1994.

Johnny has a BA in Economics from the University of Manchester, England and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Rory M. McInerney is vice president, Digital Enterprise Group and Director of the Enterprise Microprocessor Group. McInerney leads multiple engineering teams responsible for the design and development of Xeon®, Itanium® and HPC microprocessors targeting the server computing market segment.

Prior to his current role, McInerney led the design team for the Intel® Xeon Multi-Processor family.

McInerney joined Intel in 1990 as a senior engineer on the Intel 395 Cache Controller, and later moved to a design role on the Intel 486 family of processors. He later joined the design team for the first 64-bit Intel Itanium processor and went on to lead successive generations of this processor family.

In 2007, McInerney received an Intel Achievement Award for delivering the Tulsa Xeon-MP processor to market. He holds two U.S. patents on microprocessor architecture and has 5 technical papers published in refereed journals and conferences.

McInerney graduated from the National University of Ireland, Cork, in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1997 with a master's degree in business administration. He is an alumnus of the Graduate School of Business having completed the Stanford Executive Program in 2008.

As senior vice president of Cisco's Voice Technology Group (VTG), Barry O'Sullivan leads Cisco's Voice over IP and Unified Communications Business. Generating in excess of $2 billion annual revenue, VTG is responsible for developing the company's IP telephony systems, IP phones, customer contact solutions, and unified communications applications including messaging, video and audio conferencing, and enterprise collaboration.

When he came to Cisco in July of 2002, Barry served as vice president and general manager for VTG's Customer Contact Business Unit. Two years later he became vice president and general manager for the IP Communications Business Unit, where he helped the company grow from number six to the number one market share position worldwide. Before joining Cisco, Barry spent 18 years at Nortel Networks as vice president and general manager of the contact center business and, prior to that, as vice president of Enterprise Voice for Nortel Networks Europe.

Mr. O'Sullivan holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the National University of Ireland as well as a Masters degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University, California.

Cian Hughes currently operates as a full-time executive consultant where he specializes in Business Management, Operations & Strategic Management and new business startups in the High-Tech sector.

Cian Hughes has held key positions in General Management, Operations Management and Localization Management with some of the worlds leading organizations over the past 19 years including Lotus/IBM, ITP (now SDL), Intel, MetaCreations (now Viewpoint), Pivotal, Curious Labs (now e-frontier).

Additionally Cian played a key role in start up of the International Operations entities in Ireland for MetaCreations, Curious Labs & Pivotal.

Cian holds a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from University College, Dublin, Ireland, and a Diploma in Management from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Richard A. Moran is a San Francisco based venture capitalist, best selling author and evangelist for organization effectiveness. He began his career in Silicon Valley at Atari.  He is best known for his series of business books beginning with Never Confuse a Memo with Reality and is credited with starting the genre of "Business Bullet Books". His newest book is Sins and CEOs to be released in lat 2011. He is a Partner at Irish Technology Capital and serves on the boards of Accretive Solutions, Mechanics Bank and Integreon. 

Previously he served as a Partner at Venrock and was also the Chairman of Portal Software. He is a former Accenture Partner where he focused in the technology, media and financial services practice.

He often works with corporate boards to improve effectiveness and serves on the board of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Mr. Moran holds an A.B. from Rutgers College, an M.S. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Miami University.

Conrad started Innovalight in the solar business in Silicon Valley in 2005 and was President & CEO until it was acquired by DuPont Corporation (NYSE: DD) in August 2011.

Prior to Innovalight, Conrad was senior vice president for Oclaro (Nasdaq: OCLR). His career has spanned research and development, product management, marketing, sales, general management and operations in global organizations such as NEC, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems. Conrad has extensive international experience having lived for many years and run major operations in Germany, UK and Japan. Mr. Burke was also a venture partner at Sevin Rosen Funds, focused on semiconductor investments.

At The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Conrad received theTechnology Pioneer Award. In October 2010, Conrad was presented an award at The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year™ event in Dublin by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese.

Conrad has an MSc in Physics from Trinity College, Dublin, a BSc in Physics from UCD, and he has attended The London Business School..

Liam Moore is responsible for Business Development and is also Legal Counsel for ITLG, and for Irish Technology Capital and the Irish Innovation Center.

Following the major partnership ITLG forged with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the global authority on entrepreneurship, as a Kauffman Affiliate Liam is Program Director and Facilitator for the delivery of the Kauffman world-leading entrepreneurship and innovation FastTrac® programs to Irish and international companies, whether start-ups or existing businesses investigating next-stage growth and opportunity. This partnership is part of ITLG’ mission to develop a diaspora innovation strategy to combine university internship programs, entrepreneurship training, advice on entrepreneurship policy, the Irish Innovation Center and a global network of Irish technology executives, to serve existing and aspiring entrepreneurs in non-academic environments to produce a viable source of young entrepreneurial companies for the future.

Liam is also CEO of Ireland’s leading provider of Continuing Professional Development (‘CPD’) to the professions, with a venerable panel of expert speakers which includes the holders of the highest national and European offices in both the public and private sectors, and the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. Prior to that Liam was personal advisor to leading Irish, American and European political, business, diplomatic and charitable figures, and ran a successful law practice for many years before working in international real estate in Europe and the Middle East. He continues to be a Consultant to his legal colleagues.  

Liam read Law at University College Cork, Ireland before going on to qualify as a Lawyer, a Mediator and a Collaborative Practitioner. He was a legal journalist and lecturer, and now works with many Irish law firms to raise their awareness and help them improve and promote their businesses through the effective use of technology.

Kieran Hannon has spent the last 20 years helping build the best consumer experience in the mobile, digital and retail
sectors. Kieran brings his rich marketing and advertising background at top performing mobile and consumer electronics companies to Sidebar and will lead the charge in sales, marketing, content and distribution activities.

Before Sidebar, Hannon served as CMO of online retailer Cooking.com where he helped the company expand its base with new partners and reach customers in innovative ways. Prior to this, Kieran was executive vice president of marketing at Helio. There, he spearheaded the company’s brand development across traditional and non-traditional marketing channels. He launched several innovative products and industry firsts such as Ocean, the world’s first dual slide mobile device, and helped spearhead cutting-edge mobile services such as MySpace Mobile and YouTube Mobile.

Before this, Kieran served as the vice president of marketing for RadioShack Corporation where he developed and implemented the company’s first integrated marketing campaign in more than 10 years. Under his direction, the award-winning campaign ushered in the most successful sales day in RadioShack’s history and earned retail and marketing accolades from industry groups, including the gold honors for excellence from both the National Retail Federation and the Experiential Marketing Association.

Prior to this, Kieran was also a highly respected advertising agency executive. As president of Grey Worldwide in San Francisco, he directed changes that resulted in the growth of the San Francisco office, making it one of the top performing agencies in the Grey network. Earlier in his career, Kieran managed marketing campaigns for industry leaders such as Sprint, HP, Sun Microsystems, 24 Hour Fitness, Oracle, Chevron, E*Trade, Levi's, Ask Jeeves and E*Loan and produced an impressive record of enhanced market penetration and bottom-line contribution. For this work, Kieran was named one of the top marketing strategists by Crain's Business Marketing.

Kieran is a Technology Advisory Board member of Enterprise Ireland, a government agency responsible for promoting Irish companies around the world and an Advisory Board member of the Irish Technology Leadership Group. He also serves on the advisory boards of MyReceipts.com (Third Solutions) and MediaMojos. Kieran graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland with a diploma in civil engineering. He originally hails from Dublin, Ireland where he held junior and senior records in swimming at the national and international levels.