IGNITE: Graduate Business Innovation Programme

23rd October 2012

UCC announces the appointment of Eamon Curtin to lead the IGNITE Graduate Business Innovation Programme.

Eamon has a wealth of relevant experience having worked with early stage and start-up companies as a consultant, mentor and trainer since 2001. In 2003, he founded HJM Business Development to provide business development consultancy and training services to the SME sector. In recent years, he has worked extensively on training and development programmes for start-up and early stage businesses.

Eamon developed his engineering and management skills with a number of US multinational companies. He spent 5 years in Research and Development at Digital Equipment (Ireland) Ltd. in Clonmel and then joined Burle Industries Ltd. where he was initially based in Cork before taking a long-term assignment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He joined MOOG Ltd. in 1992 where he spent 10 years in a number of management roles including long-term assignments in Copenhagen, Denmark and Milan, Italy.

Eamon is a graduate of the University of Limerick with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics and he also has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from University College Cork.

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