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[1] Cara Taylor has been annaounced as
Business Growth Enabler, Southern region,
Ulster Bank . As a Business Growth Enabler
for Ulster Bank, Cara is responsible for
developing SMEs and providing expert
business advice to startups. She is heavily
involved with the bank’s Boost initiative,
organising networking events and
information seminars to local businesses
across the region.
[2] Lisa McCaul has been announced as
Business Growth Enabler, North region, Ulster
Bank. Previous to this role, Lisa spent two
years as Business Executive to Ulster Bank’s
Head of Business Banking NI, three years as a
lending specialist and a further nine years in
portfolio management with Ulster Bank.
She is actively involved in both the RBS
Women’s Network and Entrepreneurial Spark.
[3] Áine Hughes is to be Associate,
Restructuring & Insolvency at A&L Goodbody.
Áine specialises in providing advice to
insolvency practitioners and financial
institutions in Northern Ireland on both
contentious and noncontentious matters.
Áine's work includes acting in the
appointment of fixed charge receivers or
administrators and the preparation and
negotiation of settlement agreements. Áine
regularly appears before the High Court in
Northern Ireland to attend to matters such as
bankruptcy and winding up applications,
actions for possession of land and contentious
summons/writ actions.
[4] Jonathan Hacking is Associate, Mergers,
Acquisitions and Corporate at A&L Goodbody
with responsibility for advising clients on a
wide variety of commercial agreements.
Jonathan specialises in commercial law,
technology, IP matters, data protection and
cyber security. Jonathan trained and qualified
in London in 2009 before joining A&L
Goodbody Belfast in September 2015.
[5] Jago, has added to its senior team with the
appointment of Kate Ferguson as
Communications Director. Kate brings more
than 15 years’ experience of PR and marketing
communications, spanning both inhouse and
agency in London and Northern Ireland. She
has directed and managed PR and
communications activity for companies
varying from global brands to local startups.
Kate will bring strong creative insight, media
relations and strategy development
experience to the team along with first class
communications skills to the practice with
clients in the consumer and corporate sectors.
[6] Miriam Kerbache has been appointed as
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general manager of the Ormeau Baths. She
has previously worked in business
development, human resources and
operations management. Miriam
established and managed a large New York
based startup’s UK headquarters in Belfast,
growing her team to over 50 engineers,
support and development staff in four years.
She is a highly motivated and driven
individual with strong knowledge of the IT
startup sector in Northern Ireland. work across the agency’s growing consumer
and corporate client portfolio.
She brings three years of professional PR
and Communications experience to her new
role, having worked across a variety of high
profile consumer clients as part of the
consumer team in a Belfast PR agency, as
well as inhouse as the PR & Comms
manager for a Northern Irish FMCG
company. Sarah is an active member of both
CIPR and the PRCA.
[7] Dana McCusker has been appointed to
the role of Director at LK Communications.
Dana, whose career in PR, Marketing and
Business Development spans some
seventeen years, joins the company from
awardwinning hospitality group, Genesis
Pubs Ltd, of which she was Marketing and
Business Development Director.
She is a former director of one of Northern
Irealnd’s largest PR agencies, where she led
multiple highprofile consumer, corporate
and public affairs accounts across the public
and private sectors. [9] Modern Office Supplies
has appointed Rory McCurry Managing
Director. Rory will bring his experience to
MOS to drive the image and reputation of
the company within Northern Ireland. A key
aim is to make clients aware of the range of
services offered by MOS and to ensure the
company maintains its stellar reputation for
the highest level of customer service.
Track Record: Rory spent his previous
working life in corporate communications
with Lanyon Communications.
[8] LK Communications has appointed
Sarah Fox to the role of Account Manager to