Michael J Dowling
Chairman, North American Advisory Board, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. President/CEO, North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System
Michael P Beckerich
Founder, Carala Ventures Ltd. Managing Director, Classics of Golf
Margaret Brennan
Anchor & Reporter, Bloomberg Television News
Aidan F Browne
Partner & Director of Business Development, Sullivan & Worcester, US Consultant, A&L Goodbody
Thomas W Codd, Jr
North Texas Managing Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
James M Corgel
General Manager, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM
Michael G Corrigan
Co-Founder/Former Partner, Shelbourne Capital Partners LLC. Former Vice President, MGM Inc
Susan A Davis
Founder/Chairman, Susan Davis International
A James DeHayes
Chairman/CEO, DeHayes Consulting Group
Robert L Dilenschneider
Founder/Principal, The Dilenschneider Group
John E Drew
Founder/President, Drew Company, Inc.
President/CEO, Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center Boston.
John G Duffy
Michael C Finnegan
Former Managing Director/Head of Regions, Public Finance, JP Morgan Securities, Inc.
James P Hynes
Founder/Chairman, Hynes Capital Resources; Former M/D, Fidelity Ventures
John F Kearney
Chairman, Anglesey Mining plc, Canadian Zinc Corp., Labrador Iron Mines Ltd., Conquest Resources Ltd., Xtierra, Inc., and Minco plc
John J Kelly
President/CEO, Hanover Stone Partners LLC. Former President, Arthur J Gallagher & Co. of NY, and former V/P at Aon
Shaun Kelly
Vice Chairman for Operations, KPMG LLP
David C McCourt
Chairman/CEO, Granahan McCourt Capital LLC. Board Member, Narrowstep, Inc., Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network, and JP Morgan Chase
Judith A. McHale
President and Chief Executive Officer, Cane Investments, LLC
Trevor Madigan
Global Business Manager, Global Marketing Solutions, Facebook
Thomas J Moran
Chairman/President/CEO, Mutual of America Life Insurance Company. Chairman, Concern Worldwide (US)
Kathleen A Murphy
Dean R O’Hare
Retired Chairman/CEO, The Chubb Corporation
Director, HJ Heinz Co., The Fluor Corp., AGL Resources, SeaPass Solutions, and DFA
James E Quinn
Former President, Tiffany & Company.
Board Member, Mutual of America Capital Management and other companies
Paul S Quinn
Partner, Nossaman LLP, Washington DC
Edward T Reilly
President/CEO, the American Management Association Former President, The McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company
Brian A Ruane
CEO of Alternative and Broker-Dealer Services - BNY Mellon. Former Head of Global Financial Institutions. Board Member, Pershing LLC
John T Sharkey
Chairman/CEO, Kane Saunders & Smart
John P Sievwright
Retired Senior Vice President/COO - International, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Non-executive Director, FirstGroup plc, UK
Michael J Sullivan
Partner, Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP. Former US Ambassador to Ireland (1998 - 2001) Former Governor of Wyoming
Paul Haran
Chairman, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Board Member, Glanbia plc, and Mater Private Hospital. Chairman, Edward Dillon & Co. Retired Secretary General, Dept Enterprise Trade & Employment
Prof Ciaran Ó hÓgartaigh
Professor and Chair of Accountancy at UCD. Principal of UCD College of Business and Law and Dean, UCD Business Schools
Prof Tony Brabazon
Professor of Accountancy
Director UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Michael Carey
Executive Chairman, The Company of Food, Non-Executive Director of the Conusmer Foods Board of Bord Bia and Traidlinks. Chariman of the board of Marketing Institute of Ireland.
Pat Cox
President, the European Movement International. Former President of the European Parliament. Director, Tiger Developments Europe
Laurence G Crowley, CBE
Chairman, Gaisce - The President's Award, Ecocem Ltd., The Middletown Centre for Autism, The Gate Theatre, Realex Payments, and “Your Country Your Call”. Director, O'Flaherty Holdings Ltd., Aer Lingus Group plc, and Bord Gais Eireann. Former Governor, Bank of Ireland
JP Donnelly
Group Chief Executive, Ogilvy Ireland
Liam FitzGerald
Chief Executive, United Drug plc. Non-Executive Director, C&C plc.
Professor Pat Gibbons
Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Strategic Management UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Emer Gilvarry
Managing Partner, Mason Hayes + Curran, Solicitors
Loretta Brennan Glucksman
Chairman, The American Ireland Fund
Anne Heffernan
Head of Human Resources, Dunnes Stores
John Herlihy
Vice President, Global Ad Operations, Google Ireland Ltd
Vivienne Jupp
Chair, Accenture Institute for Public Services Value and Chair of CIE
Mark Kavanagh
Chairman/Chief Executive, Hardwicke Ltd. Chairman, Custom House Docks Development Co. Ltd.
Jerome Kennedy
Board Member, Independent Newspapers, New Ireland Insurance Co. plc and Total Produce plc
Former Managing Partner, KPMG
Professor Mary Lambkin
Professor of Marketing
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Jerry V Liston
Chairman, Kevin Broderick Ltd. Non Executive Director, Glanbia plc. Former CEO, United Drug plc.
Gary McGann
Chief Executive, Smurfit Kappa Group plc. Chairman, Aon McDonagh Boland. Director, United Drug plc
Cyril P McGuire
Co-Founder/Chairman/CEO, Trintech Group plc
Professor Damien McLoughlin
Anthony C. Cunningham Professor of Marketing Asociate Dean, International
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Martin Murphy
Managing Director, Hewlett-Packard Ireland Ltd.
Ronan Murphy
Senior Partner,
PricewaterhouseCoopers in Ireland
Anne Nolan
Chief Executive, Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association
James O’Dwyer
Senior Partner/Former Chairman, Arthur Cox.
Director, Goldman Sachs Bank (Europe) plc, Stafford Holdings, and Fyffes plc
Jim O’Hara
Former Vice President, Technology Manufacturing Group, Intel Corporation. Former General Manager, Intel Ireland Ltd.
Amanda Pratt
Director, Avoca Handweavers Ltd
Lochlann Quinn
Deputy Chairman, Glen Dimplex. Chairman, National Gallery of Ireland and the ESB. Former Chairman, AIB Bank
Ann Riordan
President, Institute of Directors in Ireland. Chairman, Dublin Regional Tourism Authority and the National Standards Authority of Ireland. Non-executive Director, Tourism Ireland Ltd., FIT Ltd., and EBS Building Society. Former Manager, Microsoft Ireland
Tom Roche
Chairman/former Founding Director, NTR plc. Non-Executive Director of other companies
Michael Smurfit Jnr
Chief Executive, SF Investments Director of other companies
Dr Michael WJ Smurfit
Former Chairman, Smurfit Kappa Group
Peter D Sutherland SC
Chairman, Goldman Sachs International and the London School of Economics. Board Member, Eli Lilly, Allianz, Koc Holdings, and BW Group Ltd. Chairman, The Trilateral Commission (Europe). Foundation Board Member, the World Economic Forum.
John Travers
Executive Director, Global Finance Academy at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. Former founding CEO, Forfas, and Science Foundation Ireland. Board Member of a number of public and private bodies.
David Widger
Partner, A&L Goodbody
Our graduates are in high demand. 56% of the class of 2010 were employed immediately on graduation and 85% within 6 months. Average salaries from the 2010 class were 4.6% above the national average and have increased on average by nearly 30% since. To help you towards potential graduate employment, we offer a dedicated career guidance service under the direction of a trained and experienced recruitment specialist. Our MSc Career Manager is available throughout the year for one-to-one consultations ,to help you identify career opportunities and provide support to you with your career planning. Employability skills workshops are held on campus regularly. These include workshops on writing CVs, graduate applications, interview skills and creative job searching.
The Career Development Centre welcomes many employers and guest speakers throughout the academic year and you will be kept informed of opportunities to meet with visiting speakers from corporate organisations and recent graduates. We also hold career fairs on campus which are attended by leading companies such as KPMG, Kerry Group, First Derivatives, Kellogg EHQ, Microsoft, Paddy Power, Unilver, Google and many more.
UCD Smurfit School’s reputation for excellence has encouraged many organisations to recruit directly from our campus by advertising opportunities through our careers service.