Mr John McGowan

Mr McGowan is a Chartered Engineer, and a former President of Engineers Ireland, and of the Irish Academy of Engineers.  Originally working with Jacobs International, his last role was project director on the EPCM of Intel’s Fab10. He subsequently moved to Intel Ireland, spending four years as the Facility Manager on the Leixlip campus, before being appointed General Manager of Intel Ireland. After three years, he was transferred to co-leading Intel’s global Corporate Services group, based in Phoenix AZ, responsible for the ongoing delivery of new wafer fabs etc across the globe, with a typical annual spend of $2.5b.  He spent three years as Managing Director of McNamara construction, before establishing his own consultancy service, working as a non-executive director for a series of engineering  companies, including DPS Engineering Ltd.