Frank Hannigan

Current

Chairman at Goshido
Managing Partner at Pathfinder

Past

CEO and Co-founder at YouGetItBack
Sales & Marketing Director at Digiserve
Director at Net Results

Sales & Marketing Manager at Ireland On-Line
Head of Sales & Marketing at Examiner Publications
Sales & Marketing Manager at Hot Press
Financial Advertising Manager at Sunday Tribune
Graduate Trainee at Kompass Ireland
Sales Executive at Sunshine Radio

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Education

St. Aidans CBS
Trinity College, Dublin
Marketing Intstitute of Ireland

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Frank Hannigan’s Summary

Frank Hannigan has a 25 year track record of building and scaling successful businesses in the ICT sector. Having moved from a successful career in Traditional Media over a dozen years ago, he has played key leadership roles within Ireland On-Line, Digiserve, EBRD, WeddingsOnline, Razor, Yougetitback.com and most recently Goshido.com.

Frank is a Business Graduate of Trinity College Dublin.

Extensive international experience in business development, evaluation, consultancy and training, in areas such as local economic development, entrepreneurship and venture creation working in USA, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, UK, Taiwan, Albania, Mongolia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Serbia and Montenegro.

Guest lecturer in UCD, DCU, DIT, CIT, LIT, UCC covering topics from Media to entrepreneurship.

Active Director on a number of ICT Boards.

Frank Hannigan’s Specialties:

Sales, General Management, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Leadership, Business Development, Internet, International Development, Project Evaluation, Networking, Door Opener, Catalyst, Self Starter, Training, non-executive Director, mentor, interim management, partnership, MBO, Organisational Behaviour, Project Management, Funding, Partnership

Frank Hannigan’s Experience

Chairman

Goshido

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2009 — Present (4 months)

Goshido allows you to break any project into Actions and Updates. Using these building blocks you interact to create a scalable project plan.

This plan allows team members to put their work in perspective and gives project managers a dashboard on all activity.

As the project progresses, anyone on the team can create, complete, update and delegate actions.

I am proud to join Goshido, founded two years ago by award winning Intel Engineering Architect, Gerard Hartnett.

My job is to turn all the engineering excellence and significant buzz about Goshido into cold hard shareholder value!
Managing Partner

Pathfinder

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

June 2003 — Present (6 years 10 months)

In addition to my consultancy work with EBRD, I have long term commitments to private clients.

I hold a number of valuable board Positions:

Chairman, Goshido Limited
- A cloud platform that makes it easy to plan and execute projects.

Chairman, Razor Communications Limited
- A Media Production House based in Belgrade

Director, Yougetitback Limited
- A solution that returns lost or stolen mobile devices to their owners

Director, WeddingsOnline Limited
- The dominant Wedding Internet media group in Ireland

Over the last seven years I have consulted with mainly Irish companies some blue-chip, some exciting start ups.

I am a regular guest speaker and lecturer on a wide range of topics related to entrepreneurship and technology

Senior Industry Advisor - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

EBRD TAM is a programme that allows experienced business leaders to spend time as non-exec advisors to businesses in former Communist Countries. I am proud to have been part of TAM

I have worked exclusively to date on ICT projects and businesses

The work is varied but essentially has a regular road-map. There is a phase for dealing with major issues. When stable, a phase that allows us to imagine the company's future, building a defensible plan to move towards long term profit and international success. Typically projects last for 18 months.

Projects to date: Albania, Mongolia, Taiwan, Kyrgyzstan,Azerbaijan, Montenegro and Serbia.
- Client evaluation for TAM/BAS.
- ICT incubators in several countries in the Balkans and Asia.
- Advisor to privately owned ICT companies
CEO and Co-founder

YouGetItBack

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

November 2004 — November 2008 (4 years 1 month)

The company was founded in 2004. I served as CEO from start up through to December 2008.

Our global service returns lost or stolen mobile devices to their owners. We have built patent pending technologies with 12 patents already filed.

We have blue chip customers on four continents today.

Yougetitback is becoming the default way that people protect their mobile assets from loss and theft.
Sales & Marketing Director

Digiserve

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years )

Digiserve was a high profile online content business created by the two founders of Ireland On-LIne and myself.
It was created at the height of the dot.com bubble, and survived through a mixture of shareholder commitment and constant reinvention.

The company spawned two software development businesses, two online media properties and an innovative but doomed daily newspaper for Dublin.

I was responsible for the commercial aspects of all these ventures and also led the fund raising programme with Colm Grealy the CEO.

Digiserve gave me over 50% of my grey hair. It also resulted in a huge growth in the number of friends I have in business.

I learned a lot about myself, and about what I want out of my business career.
Director

Net Results

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

The company created and marketed an Internet Appliance for SMEs. It was sold to a Integrity, a Nasdaq quoted company, within 18 months of start-up for a >€2m.
The black box solution that provided post office solution for LAN mail and internet access.
I was responsible for market entry into the UK.
Sales & Marketing Manager

Ireland On-Line

(Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )

IOL was the first commercial Irish Internet Service Provider.

It was bought by An Post, the Irish postal utility and grew to be the dominant player in Consumer and Corporate markets.

IOL Group was sold to Esat for €109m three years later.

An Post hired me to be one of the four executives running this groundbreaking organisation.

I was employee number 28 over two years numbers grew to 120.

The Internet was wild and undefined by comparison to traditional media. My team introduced innovative products and new routes to market almost on a monthly basis.
We quadrupled revenue in a period of two years.
As one of my colleagues rightly says, I joined knowing nothing about the Internet. I left IOL committed to it.
Head of Sales & Marketing

Examiner Publications

(Newspapers industry)

1994 — 1997 (3 years )

• Three and a half years of huge personal development. One of the most dramatic turnarounds in the history of medium sized Irish companies.
• Responsible for commercial management of two daily newspapers with a turnover of over €25m and direct and dotted line man-management for over 70 of the 360 staff.
Sales & Marketing Manager

Hot Press

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )

• Ireland’s dominant music and culture fortnightly magazine. I served on the four man team that doubled turnover and profit in just over two years.
• Responsible for introducing best of breed advertising sales processes and building a valuable sales team.
Financial Advertising Manager

Sunday Tribune

(Newspapers industry)

April 1990 — March 1992 (2 years )

• Two years working with Barbara Nugent and Vincent Browne as a young manager.
• Responsible for financial and IT advertising revenue
Graduate Trainee

Kompass Ireland

(Information Services industry)

March 1988 — June 1990 (2 years 4 months)

• Graduate Trainee programme exposed me to a wide range of sales and marketing projects.
Sales Executive

Sunshine Radio

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

September 1983 — January 1988 (4 years 5 months)

• While most students earned minimum wage, I earned up to €1k per week selling radio advertising on commission only. Stepping out of college in the middle of the last recession, I had skills and confidence that my peer group would take years to learn.

Frank Hannigan’s Education

St. Aidans CBS

1964 — 2001
Trinity College, Dublin

Economics , 1982 — 1986
Marketing Intstitute of Ireland

MMII

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Frank Hannigan’s Interests:

• I am married to Betty with two boys – Niall and Daragh. • I live in East Cork close to Carrigtwohill. • I have travelled extensively through North America, Europe and Asia. I love it. • My work abroad has led me to dig deep into regional business, history, politics, religion and culture. • I have spent 20 years on the water on every kind of craft with a focus on racing yachts. • I am heavily involved in my community and this includes training underage Hurling and Gaelic football teams . Brand Hannigan • Innovative, enthusiastic, creative, strategic, networker, entrepreneurial, driven and fun.