Edel Creely
Edel Creely is an Irish engineer, entrepreneur and managing director of the company Trilogy Technologies.
Early life[edit]
Creely was born in Dublin and grew up in Terenure.[1] She is the youngest of five children. Her father ran a Spar supermarket. Growing up she played the violin and now regularly plays with the Hibernian Orchestra.[2][3] Despite her musical interests, Creely choose to study mechanical and electrical engineering in Trinity College Dublin when she was 17.[3]
After college, Creely travelled to Guyana in South America and started working for Guyana Airways. While she was there she taught maths and music for a short while, and later travelled around Europe playing music.[1]
Career[edit]
In 1993, Creely began work with Datapac, an IT service provider. She worked as commercial director of its systems division before she was appointed managing director in 2008.[4]
In 2009, Creely co-founded Trilogy Technologies, an IT managed and cyber security services company, following the acquisition of IT focus and the merger of Team DBA[5]. In 2014, Creely expanded her company to the English market by acquiring b2Lateral which gave them a strong presence in the City of London.[6][7] On 17 September 2018, Trilogy Technologies further expanded through the acquisition of Zinopy Security, a cybersecurity provider. [8]
Creely is an advocate for indigenous Irish technology sector. She served eight years on the Irish Software Association (ISA), a precursor to Ibec, and was chair from the years 2013-2015.[9][10] In 2015 Creely was appointed to the Board of Ibec and in the year following she was honored with the position of Deputy Director . In 2017, Creely would then become the president of Ibec.[2][11]
In 2017, she was appointed President of the Board of Irish Business and Employers Confederation (Ibec)[1]. She was awarded the TechExcellence Person of Year 2017 for recognition of work in her field.[12]
Creely has been a member of Enterprise Ireland’s Advisory Group on strategy for the software sector 2015-2020 and has helped the government with their ICT Action Plan to increase the output of ICT graduates.[13][14] She also serves as a non-executive director on the board of the Marie Keating Foundation, a cancer awareness charity.[9]
Honors and recognition[edit]
- Awarded a Fellowship of the Irish Computer Society in 2015.[2]
- Awarded TechExcellence IT Person of the year in 2017[12]
- Business Person of the Month December 2017[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "New Ibec boss takes a long-term view". Independent.ie. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Business Person of the Month December 2017: Edel Creely, Trilogy Technologies and Ibec President". Business & Finance. 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Edel Creely on Courage and Empowerment". Women in Leadership. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Collins, John. "Datapac appoints chief executive". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ "Business & Finance CEO 100 2018 listing announced - Part 2". Business & Finance. 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ O'Brien, Ciara. "Trilogy Technologies to create 30 jobs as it expands in Dublin". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ "Edel Creely". Techerati. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ Kennedy, John (2018-09-17). "Trilogy Techologies acquires Zinopy Security". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Speakers". CIO Summit. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ O'Halloran, Barry. "Most Irish tech companies plan to hire more staff this year". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ "Ibec: Edel Creely named new president". Shelflife Magazine. 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Tech Excellence Awards 2017 winners announced". Techcentral.ie. 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2019-10-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Edel Creely | Learn From Leaders". www.learnfromleaders.ie. 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ "Technology Skills 2022: Ireland's Third ICT Skills Action Plan Launched". www.ics.ie. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
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