{"id":1098,"date":"2014-04-14T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T20:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2016-05-13T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:49:14","slug":"micheal-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/2014\/04\/14\/micheal-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00edche\u00e1l Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/files\/2014\/04\/Micheal-Smith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2513 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/files\/2014\/04\/Micheal-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"Micheal Smith\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/files\/2014\/04\/Micheal-Smith.jpg 200w, https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/files\/2014\/04\/Micheal-Smith-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">VP Technology, IDA Ireland<\/span><\/p>\n<p>M\u00edche\u00e1l Smith leads IDA Ireland\u2019s Technology Division across Texas, the Mid-West and the South-East.\u00a0M\u00edche\u00e1l works with US companies making the leap into Europe for the first time and is also responsible\u00a0for maintaining the relationship between IDA and many of the leading technology brands at a corporate\u00a0level across the region who already have a presence in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>IDA Ireland, the Irish Government\u2019s inward investment agency, promotes Ireland as a cost efficient\u00a0and effective bridge to Europe and EMEA for US and other international companies. IDA works with its\u00a0existing client base of over 1000 of the world&#8217;s top companies in an effort to ensure the development of\u00a0their internationally-focused activities in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00edche\u00e1l has recently moved to the USA from Asia where he spend 7 years. The first 4 of those years\u00a0were with Ireland\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs, based in The Embassy of Ireland in Singapore, with\u00a0an Asian-wide Economic and Innovation remit. He then went on to open IDA Ireland&#8217;s first ASEAN office,\u00a0which he ran for 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Previous to his time in Asia M\u00ecche\u00e1l spent 4 years as an Economic Analyst with Ireland&#8217;s Department of\u00a0Communications and Energy while also working weekends and holidays in his Family&#8217;s food business.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00ecche\u00e1l holds a BSC in Management (Business &amp; Economics) from Queen&#8217;s University Belfast and a MSC\u00a0in Economic Policy Studies from Trinity College Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>(FYI M\u00edche\u00e1l is Irish for Michael and pronounced Me-Haul)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VP Technology, IDA Ireland M\u00edche\u00e1l Smith leads IDA Ireland\u2019s Technology Division across Texas, the Mid-West and the South-East.\u00a0M\u00edche\u00e1l works with US companies making the leap into Europe for the first time and is also responsible\u00a0for maintaining the relationship between IDA and many of the leading technology brands at a corporate\u00a0level across the region who already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","entry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"grid-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"asche","author_link":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/author\/asche\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"VP Technology, IDA Ireland M\u00edche\u00e1l Smith leads IDA Ireland\u2019s Technology Division across Texas, the Mid-West and the South-East.\u00a0M\u00edche\u00e1l works with US companies making the leap into Europe for the first time and is also responsible\u00a0for maintaining the relationship between IDA and many of the leading technology brands at a corporate\u00a0level across the region who already&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.la.utexas.edu\/texaseusummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}