Inspirational engineering leader to give lecture

Returning to his home city of Limerick, the CEO of one of the world’s largest engineering and construction companies and graduate of UL, Dr Hugh O’Donnell will deliver the 2010 ULAA Alumni Lecture on 13 April.

An Honours Graduate of Mechanical Engineering from 1987, Dr O’Donnell joined the global Kentz Corporation in 1991 and was named CEO in 2001. Since then, he has steered the company to huge success internationally. Dr O’Donnell was named the Ernst & Young International Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 and in 2008 was honoured by his alma mater when he received the prestigious UL Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution to Business.

Dr O’Donnell’s Lecture is the second of a new series launched by the UL Alumni Association (ULAA) in 2009 and which aims to bring accomplished graduates of the University back to the campus each year to deliver a lecture of interest to the student, graduate, faculty/staff and wider community. The inaugural lecture in this new series which is sponsored by Ulster Bank was delivered by Mr Nika Gilauri BBS ’99 and Prime Minister of Georgia.

The title of Dr O’Donnell’s Lecture is ‘Irish Culture Driving International Business – The Story of Kentz‘. In his own words, the theme of the Lecture is “the leveraging of the humility, humour and modesty of the Irish culture all over the world to go and do things that others dare not. I will include a series of anecdotes of experiences in business from all over the world that have each supported the building of a billion dollar international organisation.”

This public lecture will be held on campus at 3pm on Tuesday, 13 April. Access is by ticket only with all tickets available free of charge from the ULAA office on campus. For information or to add your name to the attendance list, please telephone: 061 202475; email: ulaa@ul.ie or visit www.ulaa.ul.ie

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