Our People
Our high performance team makes service and results the priority. Our executive team of 15 is led by Managing Director Ita Gibney.
All of our senior level consultants work in focussed teams to service our clients. This pool of expertise draws on a depth of experience across all of Ireland and throughout the world. Our consultants draw on backgrounds encapsulating print, broadcast journalism and public affairs.
Ita Gibney - Managing Director
Ita Gibney is founder of Gibney Communications. She was previously an Executive Director in one of Dublin’s largest public relations consultancies, where she worked for thirteen years. She became Group Director of Corporate Affairs in Greencore Group plc, which recruited her shortly after its flotation. She has over 30 years’ experience in corporate and financial PR and has advised public and private companies, multinationals, professional firms, representative bodies and state enterprises.
Carlo Crighton - Chairman
Carlo has over 15 years’ experience as a senior PR consultant in domestic and international public relations and marketing. He was until recently the International Director of Edelman’s Technology PR Practice, responsible for Europe, Asia and Latin America. He was a Board member at Text 100’s publicly quoted parent company, Next Fifteen Communications Group PLC (UK;NFC), and a member of the team which brought the company successfully to the market on the London Stock Exchange in 1999.
Donnchadh O’Neill - Deputy Managing Director
Donnchadh has worked in public relations for more than ten years and has gained extensive experience across the healthcare, State and technology sectors as well as with leading corporates and arts and sports organisations. He joined PR from RTE, where he was a producer with RTE Radio One on leading daily shows including Liveline and 5-7 Live. He reported to the nation from the Sydney Olympics and Paralympics. He has written for many of Ireland’s national newspapers and presented and produced radio documentary programmes. Donnchadh holds a BA in Communications Studies from Dublin City University and began his career with the Leinster Leader newspaper in Kildare. He is a board member of leading independent theatre company Bedrock Productions.
Niall Quinn - Senior Account Director
Niall has a strong track record in advising senior management on the development of communications strategies to support the business plans of listed companies, financial services companies, state agencies and representative organisations. His award-winning work has included working on some of Ireland’s largest corporate transactions and managing profile building programmes. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and the Faculty of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology, Niall joined the company from Ernst & Young in 2002 where he worked in their Corporate Tax division. He is a member of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland and in December 2010 was elected Vice President.
Mark Leech - Account Director
Mark has over twelve years corporate and consumer public relations experience. He has devised and managed PR strategies for some of the leading Plcs in Ireland as well as working alongside semi-state bodies and government departments. Mark has extensive experience in business development and marketing having been part of a management team which developed an eCommerce retail company from start-up to a successful business, which involved an aggressive strategy of financial investment and growth. He has specialist experience in online PR, digital marketing and social media and advises on how the internet can be used to generate attention, traffic and sales. Mark holds a Bsc in Communciations from DIT Aungier Street.