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WRI Management Team
Feargal Mooney - Chief Executive Officer
Feargal was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in February 2008, having served as Chief Operations Officer since joining WRI in 2002. He brings with him a wealth of strategic, operational and financial expertise.
Prior to joining WRI Feargal was responsible for financial planning and analysis at Baltimore Technologies, and previously held the position of Financial Analyst at Pfizer Inc. in New York.
Feargal holds an MSc in Investment & Treasury from Dublin City University, a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Galway, and is a graduate of the Leadership 4 Growth management program at Stanford GSB. He is also an Associate of the Society of Investment Analysts in Ireland and a member of the CFA Institute.
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Mari Hurley - Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
Mari joined the Group in May 2007 and is the Chief Financial Officer. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland having trained and qualified in Arthur Andersen in Dublin.
Prior to joining the Group, she was Finance Director of Sherry FitzGerald Group, Ireland's largest real estate advisory company and previously worked at Bear Stearns Bank plc.
She has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Cork and Masters of Accounting from University College Dublin. She completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2006. She was appointed to the Board in July 2007.
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John O’Donnell - Chief Technology Officer
John joined the group as Chief Technology Officer in June 2010, and since January 2011 he has also been responsible for leading the Property Supply Team. Prior to joining WRI John held the role of Head of Technology at Paddy Power Bookmakers plc for the previous ten years.
Alongside his significant e-commerce experience, John worked in New York for a number of years including almost 5 years as a Technology Operations Manager for Lehman Brothers and was also responsible for the implementation of a newly developed trading platform (OptiMark) onto the Nasdaq Stock exchange in 1999. John has a proven track record of delivering business enabling technology solutions, is a recognised expert in the field of e-commerce technology and possesses a thorough understanding of what is required to structure and staff world class technology development and operational capabilities.
John originally qualified as an Electronic Engineer in University College Galway in 1986 and subsequently also achieved a post-graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis in 1992, also in U.C.G.
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Sanjay Balakrishnan - Chief Commercial Officer
Sanjay joined the Group as Chief Commercial Officer in March 2011 from eBay, where he was Head of Marketing for eBay's Classifieds and Comparison businesses. Prior to his role at eBay, Sanjay worked for 6 years at PartyGaming PLC, performing a variety of roles spanning Marketing and Analytics. Sanjay has been involved in ecommerce ventures since 2000 as an entrepreneur.
Sanjay graduated from Mahatma Gandhi University in India in 1997 in Computer Sciences and is also an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management and London Business School.
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