Advocating for Irish Tech StartUps & ScaleUps with Martina Fitzgerald, Scale Ireland

In the podcast today Melanie Boylan speaks to Martina Fitzgerald of Scale Ireland about the work they do to support business owners.

Martina Fitzgerald is the CEO of Scale Ireland, the independent not-for-profit organisation which represents and advocates on behalf of Ireland’s tech start-up and scale-up companies. Martina has two decades senior communications experience, including as RTÉ’s political correspondent. She is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed book, ‘Madam Politician: The women at the table of Irish political power’. In 2019, Martina was a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University in New York, having earlier in the year delivered communications and empowerment training to pre-university women in Laos and Washington. She is a member of Ireland’s independent National Screening Advisory Committee and a board member of Dóchas.

Scale Ireland is an independent not-for-profit organisation which represents and advocates on behalf of  Ireland’s tech start-up and scale-up companies. There are currently 2000 indigenous tech start-up and scale-up companies employing 47,000  people around the country.

Website; www.scaleireland.org

https://twitter.com/scaleireland

https://www.linkedin.com/company/scale-ireland/

https://www.facebook.com/ScaleIreland.org