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Ronan Gillespie
Location: Swords, Co. Dublin
Phone No: +353 86 242 5680
Email: ronangillespie@ireland.com
Website: www.nextstepinternational.eu
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Ronan Gillespie established independent business development consultancy
Next Step International for food and drinks sector businesses in May 2007.
In addition to being a member of the Enterprise Ireland Mentor Network,
Ronan is on the team of business advisers used by Dublin Institute of
Technology for Enterprise Ireland’s International Selling Programme. He
successfully provided consultancy to 10 Irish food companies on the Irish
Exporters Association business development programme, Channel Clusters,
from 2009 to 2011, which was run with leading foodservice providers Pallas
Foods and La Rousse Foods.
Ronan is a very strategic individual with broad business experience. He is
energetic and has a reputation for delivering results. His key skills are in
finding appropriate solutions through taking initiative, planning, negotiating,
project management, and people and resource management.
He holds a B.A. (hons.) in International Marketing & Languages from Dublin
City University.
Ronan’s experience includes 16 years in the international drinks business
with Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard, where he played a major role in the global
success of Jameson Irish Whiskey, which saw a four-fold increase in brand
sales, over that time period. As Regional Director Developing Markets, he
had overall responsibility for sales development, profit, and the successful
implementation of Jameson marketing strategy, in a number of significant
markets in Europe, and throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia.
While with Irish Distillers, he also worked extensively on developing
Bushmills Irish Whiskey from Co. Antrim in international markets. His last
role in Irish Distillers was Business Development Director (International).