Yvonne Scully, MBS (TCD), MBA (TCD) is a Business Consultant, Food Entrepreneur, Business Angel Investor and has a professional background in Finance and Investment Banking.
· Enterprise Ireland Business Growth Advisor on Business Strategy, Sales and Marketing for exporting company clients of Enterprise Ireland. Yvonne sees Business Strategy as being at the centre of Company Growth and Export Development driven by the alignment of all of the other five pillars of a business: People and Management, Sales and Marketing, Operations, Innovation and Finance.
· Enterprise Ireland’s Strategic Consultancy Panel
· Active member of the EI mentoring panel for the past 8 years having mentored 34 EI clients to date and regularly participating in EI Investor Pitches preparing EI client companies to pitch for funding to implement their Sales and Marketing and Exporting Plans
· Programme mentor and trainer on the LEO/Bord Bia/SuperValu Food Academy Programme since its inception in 2014. This programme prepares artisan food and drink and Irish craft producers to supply SuperValu and other Irish retailers
· Export Development Consultant for food and drink, design, craft and consumer product clients of LEO Dublin City, South Dublin and Fingal
· Mentor and trainer on the Annual Bord Bia Foodservice Programme
· On the mentoring and training panels of several Local Enterprise Offices
Yvonne has a keen interest in supporting SMEs to grow and export as a Founder and MD of a food business, Bia Kid Ltd, 2003 – 2009. Supported as a HPSU client of EI and client of Bord Bia, the company ran successfully for six years providing healthy meals and soups for children through all of the Irish multiples, exports to Britain and Northern Ireland, symbol stores and several foodservice operators.
