Chairman

Stephen Cloonan is chairman, director or advisor to a number of companies in a number of different sectors. 

After university Stephen joined Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) as a trainee chartered accountant.  In 1983 Stephen did a management-buy-in to a retail consumer electronics business (Harry Moore Limited). He ran this business from 1983 to 1997, growing it 50 fold and sold it to Dixons Stores Group in 1997. In 1995 and again in 1997 he was named as one of Europe’s top 500 Entrepreneurs as part of the European Commission sponsored “Europe 500” Project.

Stephen spent some time in the US on the OPM programme at the Harvard Business School. Since then he has been involved, variously, as investor, advisor, director or chairman, with a range of businesses. These have varied in size from a dozen or employees to over 1000 and in revenues from a few million euro to more than €300m.

Since 2002 Stephen has been Chairman and a shareholder in First Advertising.

Stephen is a former member of the Chartered Accountants in Business Committee and is a former Chairman of the Chartered accountants in IT Businesses Forum. He is a member of the Institute of Directors and is President of the Harvard Business School Association of Ireland.