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John Cummins Place of Birth: Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland Business: Cal OpEx State: Pennsylvania First Established: 2015 Your Position in Business: CEO Website: www.www.calopex.com Company Twitter Handle: @cal_opex Total Employees: 20 Where You Live: Doylestown, PA First Job: Service Technician What it taught me: Hard work, travel, the importance of clientinteraction. Family: Wife Adele (VP of Talent Management) and two kids Zara andScott Danger.

Best advice anyone ever gave you: You will never be a prophet in yourown land. The most important thing for business success is: Hard work and risktaking. You know you’re Irish if… You know "I will yeah" means I won't... Biography: John Cummins is CEO of Cal OpEx and has over 15 years’experience in Calibration Programs. John has worked across varioussectors such as Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Food & Bev andSemiconductors. In this time, he has worked with the Calibration teamsof Merck, Wyeth, Stryker, Pfizer, Genentech, and many more. He is aCertified Pharmaceutical Industry Professional from the ISPE and holdsqualifications in Electronics, Process Instrumentation & Control, andTechnology Management. He now focuses on leading his internationalteam of Calibration and Data Specialists in implementing globalprograms for clients in the Life Science industry.

Timothy Hillert Place of Birth: Brooklyn, NY Business: BenXchange State: NY and PA First Established: 2013 Your Position in Business: CEO/ Founder Website: https://benexchange.com/ Company Twitter Handle: @benexchange Total Employees: 10 Where You Live: Sanatoga, PA First Job: Groundskeeper, Brooklyn Cyclones What it taught me: It taught me to perform at a high level when workingwith professional baseball players. Focus on every detail and make sureit is perfect for player and fan experience. Working with the amazingpeople in the front office showed me that you need a great team todeliver a great product and experience for your clients and customers. Family: Loving wife Laura Hillert Best advice anyone ever gave you: With any decision you make, the

result may not make everyone happy. The most important thing for business success is: Passion; withoutpassion, it is very difficult to have success with a service or product youare delivering to the market. Additionally, it is can be challenging to bringon the right partners or employees if you do not show the passion youhave for your goals. Biography: Timothy is a serial entrepreneur has over 10 years ofexperience in Insurance and Finance. He serves as the CEO andFounder of BenXchange. There he leads the company’s businessdevelopment and daily operations for the more than 70 website thecompany owns and manages. He holds a B.S. degree in Business andan Executive MBA in Business from The Pennsylvania State University.Hillert serves on the Penn State Berks advisory board forEntrepreneurship Minor of the EBC Division and the advisory board forThe Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Economic DevelopmentCenter. Additionally, he serves as the Chairman of the BusinessDevelopment Committee for the National Investment BankingAssociation.

Kathleen Maguire Place of Birth: County Louth Business: First Contact NYC LLC State: NY First Established: 2015 Your Position in Business: Founder and CEOWebsite: firstcontactnyc.com Total Employees: 20+ Where You Live: New York City First Job: Recording Artist What it taught me: The importance of people skills and how music is avery powerful medium that transcends all boundaries and barriers. Family: Proud daughter of Thomas and Kathleen. One of five siblings. Best advice anyone ever gave you: Listen to sharp people that you trustbut also go with your instincts. You have to believe in yourself, yourabilities and processes. The most important thing for business success is: A defined positionon customer service. An ethos that you truly believe in and can deliver onbecause it's natural to you and company culture. You know you’re Irish if… you treat haggling and negotiating like anOlympic sport.

Biography: First Contact is a boutique real estate firm that specializes inGlobal Mobility and Corporate Relocation. Founded by Irish nativeKathleen Maguire in 2015 in New York City, the company has quicklyexpanded to New Jersey, Connecticut and most recently the state ofTennessee.

First Contact has rapidly established itself as the go-to, trusted teamto relocate CEO's of Fortune 500 companies and high-rankingmanagement of the world's global corporations, providing a full range ofrelocation services ranging from real estate to settling in and destinationpackages.

Recently, First Contact NYC announced a partnership with The HowardMorrel Team at the international brokerage house Engels & Volkers inManhattan. 'With real estate transactions in excess of two billion dollars,the award-winning Howard Morrel Team is the perfect partner to assistus in serving the needs of our clientele who wish to buy or sell real estatein New York City. With 900 offices worldwide, this partnership expandsour ability to provide world-class representation to our internationalclient base.'

Kathleen Maguire, also known as Cathy, moved to New York in 2010.In 2014 she was named in the Irish Echo's Top 40 Under 40 and alsoreceived the Irish Echo's People’s Choice Award.

Sean P. Moynihan Place of Birth: Worcester, MA Business: The Moynihan Group, LLC State: MA First Established: 2007 Your Position in Business: President Website: www.tmgboston.com Company Twitter Handle: @moynihangroup Total Employees: 5 Where You Live: Hingham, MA First Job: Newspaper Carrier What it taught me: A job well done results in happy customers and goodtips! Family: Wife Lynn and children Maeve and Declan Best advice anyone ever gave you: Be true to your values and do notcompromise your integrity The most important thing for business success is: Self-confidence andtenacity You know you’re Irish if… The smell of burning turf brings a smile toyour face no matter your mood. Biography: The Moynihan Group, LLC, a Boston based boutique law firmspecializing in government relations, corporate law, and transatlanticventures.

The firm builds and executes strategies for companies andorganizations in need of government relations and public affairs counselby encompassing legislative, regulatory, procurement and businessdevelopment advocacy. One of the firm’s focuses is advocacy on behalfof Irish companies and organizations seeking to establish or expandoperations in the United States including legal and compliance servicesas well as relationship facilitation within the business, government andacademic arenas.

Likewise, the firm represents American companies seeking toestablish or expand operations into Ireland and Irish companies andorganizations working to identify targets of foreign directinvestment.

The founder of the firm, Attorney Sean P. Moynihan, is a 1992 cumlaude graduate of Providence College and a 2001 cum laude graduate ofSuffolk University Law School’s evening division program. He wasadmitted to the Massachusetts Bar in January of 2002. He spent over adecade working in the Massachusetts House of Representatives asCounsel to the House Ways and Means Committee and Counsel to theHouse Majority Leader.

Moynihan currently serves as President of Irish Network Boston's (INBoston) Board of Ambassadors, Vice President of Irish Network USA (IN-USA) and is a former President of IN Boston, and board member of theBoston Irish Business Association (BIBA).