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Killarney man promoted to Managing Director at Teneo

By Michelle Crean
Killarney man Dan O’Neill has been promoted to the role of Managing Director at CEO advisory firm Teneo and has also joined the senior leadership team in Ireland.
In his new position, he will assume a leadership role within the strategic communications division in Teneo Ireland which incorporates CEO and leadership advisory, corporate communications, Government and public affairs, media training, and crisis management amongst other services. Teneo’s wider service offering in Ireland comprises of brand strategy advisory, digital strategy and content creation, sports advisory and sponsorship, performance, consulting and financial, and people advisory.
The company employs over 80 people in its Irish division. Globally Teneo has more than 1,500 employees located in 41 offices around the world. The company is headquartered in New York.
Dan is the son of Donie and Alice O’Neill (nee Slattery), brother to Rory and Stephen and comes from the Muckross Road. He is also a relative of the legendary Radio Kerry broadcaster Weeshie Fogarty who was his uncle-in-law.
Dan has worked with the organisation for just over nine years having joined at entry level in September 2013. He specialises in all aspects of strategic communications and reputation management and advises the CEOs and senior leaders of both Irish and international organisations.
Prior to this, he worked as a traffic and travel broadcaster with AA Roadwatch broadcasting on RTÉ Radio One while some will remember him delivering traffic updates on the 2FM Breakfast Show with Hector Ó hEochagáin. He also has experience working in sports broadcasting at a national level with RTÉ and in local radio with iRadio, Red FM and Clare FM. In his earlier years, Dan worked in the Tatler Jack Pub on Plunkett Street while he studied at University College Cork.