Marina Donohoe has been appointed as Enterprise Ireland’s Head of Research and Innovation. In this role she will lead on Enterprise Ireland’s extensive portfolio of investments in industry focused academic research and commercialisation of third level intellectual property. She will also manage a wide range of programmes focused on advanced innovation including in company-based research, Disruptive Technologies as well as our very successful teams focused on European research programmes.

Marina has enjoyed a distinguished career with Enterprise Ireland and has held a number of senior positions in our head office in Ireland, as well as across our network of international offices, including the United States and UK. Marina led on the establishment of six new offices globally for Enterprise Ireland, including Silicon Valley, Sao Paulo and Copenhagen, and the development of the organisation’s Eurozone strategy.

She previously served as the Manager of our West Coast office in the US, as well as the Director for Americas. Marina also spent time as the Clean Tech manager in the organisation, as well as serving as Head of the Business and Consumer Services department and Head of Education in Ireland. She was most recently the Enterprise Ireland Director for UK and Northern Europe, a role she held for eight years.

Marina is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin (BSc Mgmt), UCC/IMI (MoB) and has attended executive development programmes at IMI, Stanford, Colombia and LSE.