Leslie Buckley, Chairman
John Callaghan, Non-executive Director
Maria Mahon, Non-Executive Director
Ciaran McCooey, CEO
Brendan Maher, New Products Director
Jane Lorigan, Managing Director
Leslie Buckley was integral to the start-up of Esat Telecom Group plc and Esat Digifone Limited. He held the position of Chief Operations Officer of Esat Telecom during the period 1996 and 1997.
Leslie established his own consultancy business in 1990 and has since been retained on significant public and private sector projects, including the reconstruction of Waterford Crystal plc, the reconstruction and sale of Irish Steel plc, consulting with Irish Rail and the restructuring of Aer Lingus.
Leslie currently serves on the boards of a variety of companies including Saongroup, the Irish Medical Organisation Financial Services Limited and Business Recovery Services Limited. He is a founder of Digicel and is currently Vice Chairman of the Board
John Callaghan is a Director of a number of Irish Companies including Glanbia Rabobank Ireland, Realflex (Chairman) and Vivas Health Insurance.
John is a formal Director of Bank of Ireland, Esat and First Active (Chairman). A Chartered Accountant by profession, John served as Managing Partner of KPMG from 1983-1991.
In addition to being a fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland, he is also a fellow of The Institute of Bankers, and an associate Member of The Institute of Taxation.
Maria Mahon is CEO of Mahon Associates and former Group CEO of Saongroup Ltd. Before joining Saongroup, Maria held senior marketing positions in 98FM, Tourism Ireland and Irish Life.
Maria holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from NUI Galway, and a Masters in Business Studies from Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Maria is currently Chairman of the Marketing Institute of Ireland.
In 2003, Maria was short listed for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year.
Ciaran McCooey is the Group CEO of Saongroup.com and has been with the Company since 2000.
Prior to joining Saongroup.com, Ciaran was a Financial Controller for Marlborough International plc, a Dublin based recruitment company. He also previously worked as the Financial Controller of DPI Southwest Distributing, a US based subsidiary of the Irish Dairy Board.
Ciaran qualified as an Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in Dublin and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and Diploma in Professional Accounting from University College Dublin. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.
Brendan began his career with Mentec, a software and consulting company where he worked as a software developer and systems engineer for four years. He then moved to Saongroup in 1999 where he has worked as Head of IT for 7 years before being promoted to his current role of New Products Director since 2006.
Jane Lorigan was appointed Managing Director of Saongroup Ireland in 2007, responsible for IrishJobs.ie, Jobs.ie and NIjobs.com. She was appointed Managing Director of IrishJobs.ie in June 2006. Jane joined the company as Group Marketing Director in January 2005.
Before joining Saongroup, Jane was Marketing Director for Taylor Nelson Sofres plc in London and International Marketing Manager for TNT Express Worldwide in Amsterdam.
Jane has a degree in Social Science from UCD and a Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
