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Partners

We work business-to-business and along with our chosen partners, we work within the following sectors:

  • Treasury & Banking
  • Professional services
  • Insurance & Reinsurance
  • Business services
  • Marketing and PR
  • Employee support services

Our partner's unique expertise will complement the Summit Focus offer to deliver seamless quality work to our clients. Meet them here:

Bracken PR

Brendan Bracken

Bracken PR specialises in results driven corporate and financial public relations in Ireland.

BRENDAN BRACKEN is Managing Director of Bracken Public Relations, which he established in 1991. He is a member of the National Union of Journalists and a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland. Brendan was formerly Information Officer with IDA Ireland and Public Relations Manager with Irish Life Assurance plc. Brendan advises clients on a range of issues including media, reputation… [more ⇓]
management and corporate communications and has carried out a range of PR programmes for organisations in the public and private sectors. Brendan also acts as PR adviser to the Chief Executive of a number of organisations.

rein4ce

Mairi Mallon
rein4ce is a creative public relations company serving the global insurance, reinsurance and risk industries. rein4ce's experienced professionals have the industry knowledge, media contacts and PR skills to deliver big results for clients using traditional and social media.
Managing director MAIRI MALLON is recognised as one of the leading exponents of social media within the re/insurance sector. Mairi Tweets and blogs as 'reinsurance girl' and... [more ⇓]
rein4ce has helped many listed international companies get started using digital platforms such as LinkedIn, blogging and Twitter to attain strategic corporate goals.

rein4ce can create great public relations campaigns to:

  • enhance profile

  • enhance perception

  • enhance profits

In June 2010, Reinsurance Magazine named rein4ce as the fourth most influential PR/Marketing company in the global reinsurance industry.

evolve

DECLAN GRAY
evolve are a multi-disciplined, multi-talented graphic design studio with a belief that "good design is good business".
DECLAN GRAY was born in Dublin in 1968 the son of a flour miller. In school, he dreamed of becoming an architect, but shifted his focus to the design industry after starting an apprenticeship as a compositor in a printing company. After graduating from Bolton Street, College of Technology, he worked for a number of years in the print trade… [more ⇓]
before being head hunted into the reprographics arena, where he redirected his focus to the advertising industry. During his five-year stint as a production director in Typeform, he fostered relationships with the majority of the leading ad agencies around Dublin. Realising that technology was changing at an alarming rate the industry he was in was due for a tough time ahead unless it changed. There was also a gap in the market where the combined services of the advertising and reprographic industries could be offered to a level of companies that were market conscious and growing. It was time to take the leap . . .

 

When he left Typeform to set up his own design firm, he continued to attract work from some of the advertising agencies which went on to become the foundation of his company. With a varied portfolio and some moderate success the company managed to grow through the current down turn. However, with a strong track record in production management he realised he needed an equally strong representation from the design arena and in early 2010 he took on an equal partner and between them they changed the companies direction whilst rebranding at the same time. Print was no longer the front runner in how a company should portray its image . . . a time when design for web and social media would pave the way to new heights had come!

 

As demand for web design and social media have been increasing, evolve have made simple, elegant, and fun sites out of masses of corporate information attracting companies and individuals from all corners and spectrums of business. Our skill is in making even complex systems easy to navigate which has highlighted our design application and business principles within the context of today's digital media.

 

By combining the continuing skill set of traditional design along with the new foray into the online arena, our goal is to continue evolving . . .

Internet Visible

Marcin Onysko
Internet Visible is a creative website design company specialising in simple, effective website build and graphic design incorporating search engine optimisation strategies.
Marcin Onysko, founder of Internet Visible, has a keen interest in computer technology, graphic design and photography. He completed the faculty of… [more ⇓]
Physics and Computer Technologies at University Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan Poland during which he developed his first websites. Working in a photography studio as a graphics designer in 2006, he graduated with excellent results from the Art Computer Graphics at Lodz IT College in 2007 as a graphic designer before moving to Ireland.
In the period 2007-2010, while still building websites, he worked as a photo lab technician and graphic designer. He founded Internet Visible in 2010, developing a strong customer base of numerous medium and small business organisations. Offering core areas of service including website design, graphic design and search engine optimisation, Marcin is responsible for managing all projects from start to finish.
Marcin is a keen photographer, spending much of his spare time sourcing and photographing his target subjects and objects.

THE TEAM

Marie Griffin

Marie Griffin, Managing Director, Summit Focus Ltd

Managing Director for over five years with Event Management International which she co-founded, Marie successfully developed its conference management business from inception in 2005 before setting up Summit Focus in 2010.

A member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, Marie holds qualifications in Business Studies (Cork Institute of Technology) and Digital Marketing (Fitzwilliam Institute). She is co-founder of EventElephant (website portal to build event websites including e-commerce solution for online registrations) and served on the successful steering committee to set up the Events Industry Skillnet and was an active member of NEO Ireland (Network of Event Organisers).

With a background in the financial services sector spanning… [more ⇓]
(dare we say it) almost three decades, Marie has been a full time professional event and conference manager for many years utilising strong marketing expertise from previous employments in the US and the UK. She has been working in Ireland in partnership with leading industry associations to develop relevant internationally reputable conference programmes including the Dublin International Insurance & Management Association (DIMA), Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers (IACT), Irish Association of Investment Managers (IAIM), Institute of Governance, Risk & Compliance (IGRC), etc. An ongoing member of the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MII), Marie has long established relationships with many organisations including Financial Services Ireland (FSI), Society of Actuaries in Ireland (SAI), Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF), Irish Banking Federation (IBF), Insurance Institute of Ireland (III), etc.

Sourcing and securing leading industry experts to deliver quality events every time, Marie and her team engage senior level industry leaders for keynote, presentation and discussion panels, etc. Employing innovative marketing strategies and developing successful online campaigns to promote and market conferences and our client companies, she also maximises on her extensive relationships with local and international companies in the re/insurance, banking, finance and legal sectors; as well as senior industry association representatives, Government ministers and leaders, regulatory authority representatives, key service providers, etc.

Events Marie has developed and promoted in the past include:

Consumer Compliance Seminar

Consumer Protection Code Seminar

Consumer Rights In The Insurance Sector

Corporate Treasury and Cash Management

European Insurance Forum

Leadership Forum

The Business of Climate Change

Treating Your Insurance Customer Fairly

A former Irish international soccer player and former Cork senior county footballer, she still harbours dreams of returning to her younger days of past glory!!! But for now, she is content with the more sedate pastimes of mediocre golf, commuter cycling and leisurely hillwalking.

Gill Brennan

Focusing on quality, excellence and systems efficiencies, Gill assists Summit Focus’ events including the European Insurance Forum while also implementing cloud computing solutions for our organisation.  She brings over thirteen years multi-industry experience specialising in I.T and I.T infrastructure, financial services and resource management. 

http://ie.linkedin.com/in/gillbrennan

Paul Duffy Paul Duffy

A RedHat Certified Technician (RHCT), Linux system administrator, VMWare Certified Professional (VCP), Windows system administrator, cisco firewalls and networking equipment, Paul continues to upgrade and maintain Summit Focus’ IT infra-structure. 

 http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/paul-duffy/5/bb7/7b2

Mary O’DwyerMary O’Dwyer

A valuable contributor to the event team for many years, Mary understands the needs of our clients and our conferences as well as the demands of our valued sponsors and exhibitors to deliver a well-planned event.  She also manages Summit Focus’ banking, book-keeping, Revenue filings, etc.     

Aideen-Smith-WatsonAideen Smith-Watson

A marketing and event management professional in Ireland, the UK and Australia over almost 20 years, Aideen is dedicated to maintaining high quality standards, with strong strategic capability and management expertise. To the Summit Focus team, she brings a strong track record in building influential/profitable customer relationships as well as working to deliver strategically planned event marketing campaigns.  Self motivated, Aideen is proficient in developing and implementing marketing activity across all events and key disciplines of sales promotion, advertising, direct marketing and digital media.  Highly experienced in conducting qualitative research and consultancy for new product development from conceptualisation through to product testing and evaluation, Aideen is a team leader in the preparation of new business pitches, from background research to final presentation.

 
 

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"Thanks to the energy, commitment and professionalism of Marie Griffin who co-ordinated yet another successful European Insurance Forum in 2010."

Stephen Devine, Managing Director, Transamerica

 
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