Season 11
The Global Interview season 11 features a fantastic group of creatives, leaders and thinkers. This season we have two artists and architects - both well recognised and with different styles. A Digitalisation Lead of Siemens, an Enterpreneur and Award-winning in Digital Expert, a Developer and Author, Founders and Chief Executive Officers, and a Start-up Consultant, Speaker & Mentor.
"I'm very values-driven. Goals and milestones are just the breadcrumbs on the strategic path, but where are they leading to? I need to know. I'm motivated by knowing that what I am working on is somehow making the world a better place for someone."
Joan Mulvihill
Joan Mulvihill
Digitalisation Lead at Siemens Experienced
CEO & Senior Manager
Joan Mulvihill continues to be at the forefront of driving technology adoption in Ireland as the Digitalisation Lead for Siemens. Having held the position of CEO of the Irish Internet Association for 7 years, followed by 2 years as the Centre Director for the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce.
Her role at Siemens builds on Siemens’ and her deep commitment to and understanding of the needs of Irish business for their digital transformation. Digitalisation means working differently.
“Focusing on the accumulation of money will lead to misery rather than happiness. Build your life around relationships, the things that you love to do and most importantly, NEVER GIVE UP. I suffered from anxiety and depression. I knew that drawing and art was a huge release for me and made me happy.”
Marc Turley
Marc Turley
Artist, Illustrator, Musician at The Urban Giant
Marc Turley (also known as The Urban Giant) is an Illustrator from Birmingham UK who hand draws buildings in a way that captures every detail whilst maintaining a calmness within the composition.
His work is a combination of rigorous research, sketchbook studies and highly detailed line drawing.
After spending 10 years at The Birmingham School of Architecture and landscape, he qualified and worked as an architect in the West Midlands before leaving the profession to retrain as an Illustrator.
“Then I got headhunted by the UN, which was a really interesting time because I had only ever run my own companies and suddenly I'm senior inside the most bureaucratic, hierarchical, strange organisation you would ever want to work in.”
Katz Kiely
Katz Kiely
Entrepreneur, Thought-Leader & Award-winning Digital Expert
I am the Founder and CEO of a company called beep which stands for the Behavioural Enterprise Empowerment Platform. Our mission is to completely redefine what work means for people who work in large companies, so that's one of my jobs!
During the lockdown, I set up a charity. An organisation which is the very first-ever national digital map of real-time needs from frontline healthcare workers.
Our mission is to make sure that everybody working on the frontline feels safe and has the equipment that they need to keep them safe in this anxious-making time.
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Never-ending learning. Listening to everyone, but doing what I consider right. Wanting to find a solution instead of wanting to be right. Being interested in others instead of trying to talk about myself.”
Csaba Toth
Csaba Toth
ICQ Global Founder, Global DISC™ Developer & Author
Csaba Toth is a British/Hungarian entrepreneur, researcher and speaker based in the UK. And the founder of ICQ Global, a people development organisation with licensed partners in 34 countries.
Csaba is the developer of the multi-award-winning Global DISC™ model and the best-selling author of the Uncommon Sense in Unusual Times hybrid book published with Marshall Goldsmith and John Mattone (Steve Jobs’ former coach).
“There is so much to do and so much to learn. I love that. The busier I am, the happier I am. It is nice to be doing something that has a direct positive impact on the people we work with. No matter what obstacle or moment that gives you pause to stop. Do not! Keep moving forward. Keep swimming.”
Philip Hogan
Philip Hogan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Cliffrun Media Ltd.
Philip is CEO and Founder of Cliffrun Media. This age/med-tech company develops solutions that serve a global ageing population. Their flagship product, the ACORN Age Friendly Smart tablet was designed for older people who require extra support to become digitally connected. Since its launch it has seen rapid adoption nationally and now plans for international expansion in 2021.
In January 2018 Cliffrun deployed the Acorn Patient Care System PCS solution which evolved in 2020 to support Covid-19 patients and incorporate the social aspects of the ACORN Smart Tablet to improve remote patient management, their welfare and consequent outcomes.
“Listen, learn from others but don't be afraid to make the right decision. Don't think you can do everything yourself, bring in good talent when you can afford to do so, trust your instincts and believe in yourself – if you don't others won't either and the enterprise will fail.”
Hans O’Sullivan
Hans O'Sullivan
Non-Exec Director, Board Advisor,
Start-up Consultant, Speaker & Mentor
Hans has always had entrepreneurial tendencies and could see opportunities, even as a child and teenager, so he started different enterprises.
He graduated as an Electronic Engineer in 1983 and joined a young Irish computer company Mentec ltd. There he developed a Single Board Computer that replaced much bulkier systems. This was commercially successful and led to the growth of a much larger team and range of products.
“If I can prove something at the moment in time using statistics or mathematics or I'm very sure of my argument, it is not unique in terms of its truth.”
Marc Tumson
Marc Tumson
Senior Process Improvement Architect at Atradius
My background, in terms of education, is in political science as opposed to politics. A lot of statistics and proving theories and a little bit more scientific than just talking about the “political”. Like many people around me who finished political science, I didn't really have a notion of what it was I wanted to do with that when I finished university.
I ended up working in the technology space. What probably attracted me the most to was how much was just constantly changing. Combined with the fact that I was looking around myself at how people were working against all of these changes and things constantly evolving and I was just thinking a lot of how we're doing things isn't very logical. I moved within that sector a little bit.