Paul O'Kelly

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Paul O'Kelly is a strategic thinking and planning business consultant who served as the Manager of the County Offaly Gaelic football team for 7 months in 2003.[1] Paul has a strong background in Irish Sports and was asked by the President of the GAA Nicky Brennan to develop the Strategic Vision and Action plan for the GAA after his time with the County Offaly Football Team.[2][3]

Irish Sports involvement

During his college years O'Kelly suffered a knee injury which ended his Gaelic football career. Motivated to be involved in sports in Ireland, Paul went on to study coaching and gained further skills which would lead him firstly into a career in sports coaching and most recently Business Consulting. At the age of 22 he coached St. Bride's Co. Louth Senior football team to win the Cardinal O'Donnell Cup. After this success, O'Kelly got involved with coaching of Edenderry football club. He worked with the underage teams initially and also held positions as secretary and treasurer of the club before coaching the senior team. In 1985 Paul O'Kelly lead the Edenderry Gaelic Football team to their first championship title in 28 years. Paul has also managed Round Towers of Clondalkin twice and Abbeylara of Longford. Paul got involved with the Offaly senior GAA team in the late 1990s and was involved in the coaching when Offaly won the Leinster Title in 1997 and their first ever National League Title in 1998. Paul has worked behind the scenes with several counties thereafter as well as being on the management team for the Monaghan GAA team.[4]

Internationally Paul was retained by Cervélo when they were expanding their professional cycling team with the appointment of Joop Alberda of the Netherlands.

The Dubai Government retained Paul to work with 17 sports leaders in UAE on Hamdam Bin Mohammed Programme for Sports Leadership led by Ohio University, USA.

He advised Irish Olympic Sailors who are preparing for London 2012.

Professional career

Paul is the founding partner at O’KellySutton. Prior to establishing his own consulting company more than 20 years ago he was Manager of European Marketing for a US Fortune 200 company. In this role he was the first employee in Europe and established a highly profitable customer base in 7 countries.

His consulting experience began with enabling Irish companies build sales in international markets and US companies establish a strong presence in Europe. Since then he has worked in more than 20 countries, 30 US states and helped open accounts with 300 of the Fortune 1000 companies. Paul is currently working in Ireland, UK, Holland, Switzerland, Africa, Middle East, USA and with subsidiaries in 15 countries and the five continents.

Paul O'Kelly is a member of the Department of Foreign Affairs funded Atlantic Corridor which is building business and education links between the midlands of Ireland and regions in the United States. Prior to the acquisition of Sunderland A.F.C O'Kelly worked with Niall Quinn to develop a strategy for the development of football at Sunderland.

He is a Board Member of Atlantic Corridor Ireland, a body funded by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.[5]

External links

References

  1. ↑ Shane Murray. "O'Kelly succeeds Nolan as Offaly manager'". RTE News. Retrieved 2007-06-14. 
  2. ↑ PJ Cunningham (2004-09-16). "Offaly strikers won't be doing a Cork on it". The Irish Independent. Retrieved 2004-09-16. 
  3. ↑ Richard Curran (2003-05-29). "Honeymoon period over in the Lyons' den". The Irish Independent. Retrieved 2003-05-29. 
  4. ↑ David Farrell. "Paul O'Kelly Interview'". Edenderry GAA Football Club. Retrieved 2011-06-23. 
  5. ↑ http://okellysutton.ie/sutton/index.php/who-we-are/paul-okelly/


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