Why sustainability must be part of doing good business, Donal Sullivan, Future Planet

Shane is joined by Future Planet CEO Donal Sullivan to discuss the work Future Planet is doing, his experience has been since taking over as CEO and what challenges he has faced so far.

He also discusses making sustainability part of doing good business, how legislation is changing and why it’s important for businesses to understand and adjust to it and how there is an urgency to climate action and sustainability and how it requires mass mobilisation to make the necessary changes. Finally, Donal speaks about Future Planet's plans for the near future.

LinkedIn: https://ie.linkedin.com/in/donal-sullivan-0a7121b

Future Planet: https://www.futureplanet.com

About Donal

With 25 years of experience in the technology industry, prior to Future Planet, Donal was a senior global executive in Johnson Controls, Tyco and Flextronics. He is a recognised authority on sustainable buildings and how technology can be used to accelerate sustainable progress at an enterprise scale. Donal has been a leading voice on low carbon, sustainability projects around the world, with a great example in his home city Cork, where he built Ireland’s smartest building as a new global HQ for Johnson Controls at One Albert Quay.

About Shane

Shane is currently interning with Irish Tech News. He is in his third year of studying Journalism at NUI Galway where he also studies IT and is studying programming and web development.