Impact Ireland Award presented to Mary Robinson

Impact Ireland Award presented to Mary Robinson

Kieran McLoughlin Adam Clayton Mary Robinson The Edge Alan Foy

Dublin, 10th June 2022 – Former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Mary Robinson, has been presented with the inaugural Impact Ireland Award in recognition of her career-long contribution to global environmental sustainability.  The Impact Ireland Award was presented by The Edge and Adam Clayton, members of the Global Advisory Council of Impact Ireland.

Photographed at the presentation were (from left):  Kieran McLoughlin, Managing Partner, VentureWave Capital;  Adam Clayton; Mary Robinson; The Edge; and Alan Foy, Chairman, VentureWave Capital.

“The presentation of this Award is the highpoint of the first in-person meeting of our Global Advisory Council with members of the Council present from Ireland, Britain, the United States and Asia. Our Impact Ireland fund invests in tech companies that advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.  All of these businesses will be grown from Ireland.  We are proud to salute Mary Robinson as an Irish woman who is a global champion of Sustainability,” said Kieran McLoughlin, Managing Partner, VentureWave Capital which founded and manages the Impact Ireland fund.

The award event was attended by an Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD and Mairead McGuinness, Ireland’s EU Commissioner for Financial Services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union. Former Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, is Chairman of the Global Advisory Council of VentureWave Capital.

Kieran McLoughlin Adam Clayton Mary Robinson The Edge Alan Foy

Dublin, 10th June 2022 – Former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Mary Robinson, has been presented with the inaugural Impact Ireland Award in recognition of her career-long contribution to global environmental sustainability.  The Impact Ireland Award was presented by The Edge and Adam Clayton, members of the Global Advisory Council of Impact Ireland.

Photographed at the presentation were (from left):  Kieran McLoughlin, Managing Partner, VentureWave Capital;  Adam Clayton; Mary Robinson; The Edge; and Alan Foy, Chairman, VentureWave Capital.

“The presentation of this Award is the highpoint of the first in-person meeting of our Global Advisory Council with members of the Council present from Ireland, Britain, the United States and Asia. Our Impact Ireland fund invests in tech companies that advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.  All of these businesses will be grown from Ireland.  We are proud to salute Mary Robinson as an Irish woman who is a global champion of Sustainability,” said Kieran McLoughlin, Managing Partner, VentureWave Capital which founded and manages the Impact Ireland fund.

The award event was attended by an Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD and Mairead McGuinness, Ireland’s EU Commissioner for Financial Services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union. Former Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, is Chairman of the Global Advisory Council of VentureWave Capital.

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