Trainer Profiles

Hotbed trainers are highly qualified experienced professionals. Each of the trainers below has worked previously worked with Hotbed member companies and very positive feedback from members has meant that we are delighted that Denise, Mary, and Phil are part of the Hotbed network.

Denise Doran (Marketing)

Prior to establishing Marketing on Demand Ltd (www.ondemand.ie) in 2001, Denise worked for fourteen years in international marketing with Hitachi, Nortel and Dell in Dublin, London and Paris. Denise holds a BBS and MBA and is a qualified trainer (NUI Maynooth). She has lectured in marketing and is a mentor with Enterprise Ireland, and an approved FAS & Enterprise Ireland trainer. Denise has worked with hundreds of start-up and SME businesses throughout Ireland.

Mary Goulding (Strategy)

Mary has been a management consultant, business coach and EI mentor since 1996. Mary's extensive business experience since 1981 - which includes setting up a successful European division of a US software company, owner-managing a profitable export-based IT business, running a public company, and mentoring and coaching hundreds of entrepreneurs and companies - gives her particular insight into the myriad of issues that senior executives and promoters of SME companies face.

Phil Kildea (Sales)

Phil set- up his own business in 2001 having been involved in sales training and coaching of staff for 11 years. Phil lectures in Strategic Management and Business Policy. He is the holder of several professional qualifications including a Bachelor Of Business Studies (1st Class Hons), a Graduate in Marketing from MII, a National Diploma in Personnel Management, and Memberships of the IITD & CIPD.