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Business 100 Profiles  Patrick
Gallagher
Giants Enterprises
Entering his 31st year with Giants Enterprises, a wholly owned subsidiary
of the San Francisco Giants baseball team, Patrick Gallagher has risen
in the ranks from marketing director to president.
Before joining the Giants organization, Patrick was an executive at
Marine World/Africa USA and Sea World theme parks. With the Giants, he
played a large role in the design and naming rights of the new stadium,
SBC Stadium. Pacific Bell was the original partner.
He also develops other uses for the stadium besides baseball, such as
soccer matches and concerts. Under his leadership, the Giants have received
numerous accolades, including the MLB Marketing Excellence award.
Patrick is a past president for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Peninsula
area.
He also sits on the executive committees of the San Francisco Convention
and Visitors Bureau and Special Olympics of Northern California. A second-generation
Irish-American, he traces his roots to counties Donegal and Clare. He
and his wife Joan live in Palo Alto, California with their two children.
 Colleen
Goggins
Johnson & Johnson
Colleen Goggins is a member of Johnson & Johnson’s Executive
Committee and has served as Worldwide Chairman, Consumer Group since June,
2001.
Goggins joined J&J in 1981. After working on several projects, she
transferred to J&J GmbH in Germany, as Director of Marketing. In 1992,
she became President of J&J Canada; in 1994, President, Personal Products
Company, U.S.; in 1995, President, Consumer Products Company; she was
promoted to Company Group Chairman in 1998.
Colleen earned a B.S. in food chemistry from the University of Wisconsin
and an M.M. from Northwestern University’s Business School. She
is a member of the Board of Trustees for Historic Morven, Inc., and The
Nature Conservancy in New Jersey.
Patricia, whose Irish heritage is on her father’s side, was named
to the 2007 Fortune “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” list,
and has been a regular on the list for several years. She is proud of
J&J’s Women’s Leadership Initiative, designed to support
leadership development of the firm’s female employees around the
world.
 David
Greaney
Synergy
David Greaney is founder and president of Synergy, a Boston-based real
estate investment and development company.
Synergy acquires, develops and manages real estate opportunities in the
New England region. The company’s $250 million portfolio is scheduled
to double in 2008, primarily due to its partnerships with Irish-based
equity.
David is a certified public accountant in Massachusetts and has held
positions in the investment management groups of Harvard University and
PricewaterhouseCoopers. He serves on the board of the Massachusetts Special
Olympics and is a director and trustee of the New England Chapter of the
Ireland Chamber of Commerce U.S.A.
He is also actively involved in numerous other Irish and business organizations
throughout the region, including The American Ireland Fund. Born in Limerick,
David is a graduate of University College Dublin. He currently resides
in Boston with his wife Kathy and his son David.
 John
Hartnett
Palm, Inc.
As Senior Vice President of Global Markets, John Hartnett is responsible
for Palm, Inc.’s worldwide sales, service and support. Palm is a
market leader providing worldwide mobile computing solutions to consumers
and business, via breakthrough innovations from the original Palm Pilot
to today’s Treo line of smartphones.
The company is headquartered in California and has offices around the
world, including a European
engineering center in Dublin. John earned a marketing degree through the
Marketing Institute of Ireland, a post-graduate diploma in finance through
the Association of Chartered Accountants and completed the executive management
program at Stanford University.
A native of Limerick, he is on the board of the University of Limerick
Foundation. He is a partner in Atlantic Bridge Ventures, a European based
venture capital firm with offices in Dublin and London. Married with four
children, he is a founding member of Munster Rugby USA, and a member of
The American Ireland Fund.
 Philip
C. Haughey
The Haughey Company
Phil Haughey is president of the Haughey Company, Inc., a family real
estate investment, development and management firm located in Boston,
Massachusetts. The company’s interests include retail, commercial
and industrial properties in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
and Maine.
A graduate of Harvard College, Phil serves as vice president and governor
of the Harvard Club of Boston. In 2005, he was awarded an honorary degree
from the University of Ulster.
Phil is a second-generation Irish-American who traces his roots to Keady,
County Armagh on his father’s side, and Cork on his mother’s.
He is a member of the North American Board of the Michael Smurfit Graduate
School of Business, U.C.D as well as the Eire Society of Boston and Comhaltas
Ceoltoiri Eireann. He is also the Chairman of both the Friends of Harvard
Celtic Studies and the Friends of the Boston Irish Famine Memorial.
Phil and his wife Peggy live in Newton, Massachusetts. They have four
children and ten grandchildren.
 James
J. Houlihan
Houlihan-Parnes / iCap
James J. Houlihan, representing the fourth generation in a family business
founded in 1891, is managing partner of Houlihan-Parnes/iCap Realty Advisors,
LLC, and a founding member of the new national real estate company, iCap
Realty Advisors.
A graduate of Manhattan Preparatory School and Fordham University’s
School of Business, Jim recently put together an exhibit entitled “Fighting
Irishmen: A Celebration of the Celtic Warrior” which premiered at
the Irish Arts Center in New York City and is currently at South Street
Seaport Museum.
He is a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in Westchester and
has served as Chairman of the Great Hunger Memorial Committee of Westchester
County. He also serves on the Board of Directors of St. Patrick’s
Home in the Bronx. A fourth-generation Irish-American on his father’s
side with roots in Kenmare, Co. Kerry, and second-generation, with roots
in Tyrone and Donegal, on his mother’s side, Houlihan lives in Bronxville
with his wife Pat and their five children.
 Thomas
J. Hynes
Meredith & Grew
Thomas Hynes became president and chief executive officer of the real
estate giant Meredith & Grew in 1988.
A full-service commercial real estate firm, Meredith & Grew provides
brokerage, development and advisory, counseling and valuation, capital
markets, and property and asset management services to a broad range of
clients. Tom, who has over 41 years of experience in the sales, leasing
and consulting end of commercial, industrial and institutional real estate,
joined the company in 1965.
Prior to joining Meredith & Grew Tom served as a real estate advisor
to the New Boston Garden Development Corporation. Tom has served as a
trustee or director at various companies and organizations, including:
Prentiss Properties Trust, New World Bank, Marine Biological Laboratory,
and Sea Education Association.
A graduate of Boston College, he holds an honorary Doctor of Laws degree
from Emmanuel College, where he is a former chairman of the board of trustees.
Tom is married with two children.
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Neville Isdell
The Coca-Cola Company
Neville Isdell was named to his current position as CEO of The Coca-Cola
Company in June 2004, and is the 12th chairman of the board in the history
of the company. He began his career with Coca-Cola in 1966 at the local
bottling plant in Zambia and held management positions throughout Coca-Cola
worldwide.
In 1998 he became chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Beverages Plc in Britain,
where he oversaw that company’s merger with Hellenic Bottling and
the formation of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, then the world’s
second-largest Coca-Cola bottler.
He is chairman of the U.S. Russia Business Council, a member of the board
of trustees of the International Business Leaders Forum and the United
States Council for International Business.
Isdell received a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the
University of Cape Town and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School
Program for Management Development.
A native of Downpatrick, County Down, Isdell moved to Zambia as a child.
This year, he received an honorary degree from the University of Ulster.
 Edward
J. Joyce
Chicago Board Options
Edward J. Joyce is president and chief operating officer of the Chicago
Board Options Exchange (CBOE). He began serving in that capacity in June
2000, following his election by the CBOE Board of Directors.
Prior to that, Ed served as executive vice president in charge of business
development and in that role was responsible for coordinating various
key activities central to relationship management. He has been with the
Exchange since 1974.
Joyce serves on the Board of Directors of the Options Clearing Corporation
and CBOE Futures Exchange.
He is on the Advisory Board of the Illinois Council on Economic Education
and is active in the Knights of Columbus. A second-generation Irish-American
with roots in Kilkenny Wexford and Clare, he earned a B.S. in Business
Administration from Illinois State University and an M.B.A. from DePaul
University.
Married with three daughters, he says, “ I am proud of my Irish
heritage and the values that have been passed down to me, including the
enjoyment of life and the importance of family and friends.”
 Garrett
Kelleher
Shelbourne Development Group, Inc.
Garrett Kelleher is executive chairman of Shelbourne Development Ltd
and the Shelbourne Development Group, Inc. He owns substantial real estate
investments in the U.S., Ireland, the UK, France and Belgium.
Kelleher will own a significant share in The Chicago Spire Equity, the
Santiago Calatrava designed building that will be the world’s tallest
exclusively residential building and the tallest building in the western
world.
A Dublin native, Kelleher moved to Chicago in the early 80’s, starting
off as a subcontractor renovating apartments. Before moving into property
development and investment, he owned one of the largest painting companies
in the Midwest.
Kelleher moved back to Ireland in 1996 and has been involved in property
development deals worth over 2.5 billion euros, not including The Chicago
Spire. He considers Chicago his second home, and is a member of the Metropolitan
Organizing Committee, a group dedicated to bringing the 2016 Summer Olympic
Games to Chicago. Kelleher, who studied math at Trinity College Dublin,
has seven children.
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