New chairman at the Enterprise Centre
WEXFORD Enterprise Centre recently appointed local businessman Eamonn Murphy as chairperson of the Enterprise and Innovation Centre in Strandfield Business Park.
A long-time entrepreneur, Eamonn has been involved in many successful start-up businesses both in Ireland and abroad over the years since leaving the family business of Wexford
Viking Glass in 2007 where he was MD.
While there, the company was nominated on two occasions for the Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year
Award.
‘I am truly honoured to hold the office of chairman for such an organisation and would like to thank Philip
Scallan as he steps down.
The centre’s long history was born out of difficult economic times in the 1980s where the priority was to create employment.
‘Since then the centre has had many dedicated people associated with it, both on its board and as chairpersons. With huge effort these people, always with a strong conviction of honourable business ethics, have built up an organisation which now provides a home for over 32 successful companies employing over 150 people. In its history the centre’s client companies have created almost 1,200 jobs,’ he said.
Throughout his career, Eamonn has been involved in many local and national business organisations, among them President of Wexford Chamber and Interim Chief Executive of Wexford Arts Centre where he was intimately involved at a crucial and ultimately successful time of change for that organisation.
He was also a business representative on the Wexford County Enterprise Board and more recently on the National Appeals Board of the Local Enterprise Office.