{"id":387658,"date":"2026-04-08T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387658\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:47:10","slug":"mayo-appoint-ruairi-conroy-as-countys-first-ceo-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387658\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo appoint Ruair\u00ed Conroy as county\u2019s first CEO \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mayo-gaa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mayo-gaa\/\">Mayo GAA<\/a> has appointed Ruair\u00ed Conroy as the county\u2019s first chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A native of Tuar Mhic \u00c9adaigh in Mayo\u2019s Gaeltacht, Conroy was ratified as CEO by delegates at Tuesday evening\u2019s county board meeting and will start the role in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A graduate of University of Limerick and TU Dublin, where he studied IT and Telecommunications and Strategic Management, Conroy started his career working in the media, where he held sales positions for radio stations 98FM and Spin 1038. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He then joined Google, spending five years in commercial sales management positions, during which time he completed the Google business leadership programme at Duke University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">After leaving Google in 2013, he joined another tech company, AdRoll, where he became their Director of Sales for Europe, the Middle East and Asia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He returned to Mayo in 2015, taking an EMEA managing director role with multinational tech company SiteMinder. He subsequently joined Diligent, a US software company, becoming the vice president of global sales development and site leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Having previously lined out as a player Tuar Mhic \u00c9adaigh, he has returned to coach underage at the club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAs a native of Tuar Mhic \u00c9adaigh, it is an incredibly proud moment for me and my family that I have been appointed as the new chief executive of Mayo GAA,\u201d said Conroy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cFrom the moment I take up this position in June, similarly to the men and women who wear the green and red jersey each season, I will do my upmost to help the future prosperity of Mayo GAA and improve the sustainability of our clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayo GAA has appointed Ruair\u00ed Conroy as the county\u2019s first chief executive officer. A native of Tuar Mhic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10863,61,60,43,10864,172200],"class_list":{"0":"post-387658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-bestof","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-topix","13":"tag-water-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387658","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=387658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}