Letterkenny Chamber is delighted to host the event with Peter Casey, star of Dragon’s Den and MD of Claddagh Resources the company he founded in 1995 in Atlanta.
Peter Casey is all set to inspire an audience next Thursday in the next of Letterkenny Chamber’s “An Audience with” series.
Claddagh Resources is now a global recruitment and search business that places high level executives with some of the world’s largest and most influential consulting and IT firms.
Claddagh currently operates from six locations worldwide including their European base outside Buncrana in Donegal. Peter himself works personally with some of the most influential thought leaders in his client portfolio to personally advise them on selecting and recruiting highly motivated executives.
Peter who was born and brought up in Derry City moved to Australia after university where he founded a series of successful executive search and business support companies.
Over his career, Peter has established successful businesses in three different continents.
The successful businessman lives in Atlanta with his wife Helen and their five children and he divides his time between there, his family home in Derry and the Claddagh headquarters outside Buncrana. He travels extensively, working with a portfolio of blue chip clients worldwide. Since 2009 Peter has invested in commercial, residential and agricultural property in Ireland.
In 2013 Peter was selected as one of the new Dragons on the hit RTE series The Dragons Den. Peter invested in three entrepreneurs and has been working with them to help them develop and grow their business.
He found meeting with the Junior Dragons particularly inspiring and he believes the younger generation offers Ireland a bright future.
Outside of work he enjoys a game of golf and is part of a network of influential Irish Americans. Peter has a very strong personal interest in the value of education in empowering people to achieve their potential. His approach to business is simple. He likes to invest in people.
John Watson, President of Letterkenny Chamber says “In this series of events so far we have been inspired by Sir Gerry Robinson and Jim McGuinness who have told their success and failure stories to enthralled audiences. Peter Casey’s approach may be different again but his deep interest in people will bring a whole new dimension to this conversation. Peter’s story covers continents, successes and failures, travel and home and this is a fantastic opportunity to hear him.
“We also hope to have Connor & Ronan McGarvey of Donegal Pens with us on the night. These boys have clearly inspired the Dragons and peter in particular. Business people like Peter and indeed these young men will we hope inspire others to enter into business in years to come.
“The event will be structured as a conversation and will be as interactive as possible.”
Toni Forrester from Letterkenny Chamber said “ We are delighted that we have been able to secure peter for this event. He is a very busy man and it’s a privilege to bring this event to Letterkenny.
“We are also delighted to be working with the Clanree on this event who are supporting us with sponsorship. We believe this event will appeal to business owners, employees, management teams and leaders from all types of organisations and also provides an excellent opportunity to network with other businesses.”
Bookings are already coming in for this popular event that takes place on Thursday 23rd May at 7pm in The Clanree Hotel. The cost is just €15 per person.