{"id":128695,"date":"2025-11-08T12:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128695\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:27:21","slug":"founder-of-one-of-donegals-largest-employers-and-visionary-leader-set-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128695\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of one of Donegal\u2019s largest employers and \u2018visionary leader\u2019 set to retire\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of one of Donegal\u2019s largest employers is set to retire at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Derry businessman Philip O\u2019Doherty is to retire on December 31 from Vertiv Ireland, more than four years after the US-based company bought E+I Engineering which he founded in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The provider of electrical switchgear and power distribution systems to data centres employed more than 1,000 people at its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/search?q=Burnfoot&amp;idcanale=6&amp;idcanalericerca=6&amp;sortElement=data_pubblicazione,true&amp;page=1&amp;sortDefault=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Burnfoot<\/a> production facility when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/local-news\/662709\/donegal-based-firm-e-i-engineering-sold-to-us-company.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">it was bought by Vertiv Holdings<\/a> for at least $1.8 billion in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing his retirement, Vertiv Ireland described Mr O\u2019Doherty as \u201ca visionary leader in our industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/news\/inishowen-md\/1937226\/fahan-event-to-hear-story-of-dutch-family-that-hid-jews-from-nazi-persecution.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fahan event to hear story of Dutch family that hid Jews from Nazi persecution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver nearly four decades, Phil built E+I into a global powerhouse in electrical switchgear and power distribution solutions, and we built on that success with the integration with Vertiv in 2021,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis entrepreneurial spirit and technical excellence have left an indelible mark on our industry. Thank you, Phil, for your extraordinary contributions and leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr O&#8217;Doherty, who has been the managing director of E+I Engineering since the takeover, is also the chairman of Derry City Football Club.<\/p>\n<p>After completing a degree in electrical and electronic engineering at Queen&#8217;s University Belfast, he started his career at Dupont at Campsie outside Derry city where he worked for five\u00a0 years before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey.<\/p>\n<p>E+I Engineering expanded to employ more than 2,000 people with manufacturing locations in Ireland, UK, US and UAE.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of one of Donegal\u2019s largest employers is set to retire at the end of the year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[75385,72,1485,75386,61,5969,60],"class_list":["post-128695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-burnfoot","tag-business","tag-donegal","tag-ei-engineering","tag-ie","tag-inishowen","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}