IPBN Member Spotlight Series

The best way for our members to promote their business, is by sharing their successes, setbacks, and highlights so that we can all share in the wealth of information. Our Spotlight Series aims to tell your business story and shine light on the areas where further networking could promote further growth. If you would like to be featured, please send a message to Arnold or Ellis and we will be in contact to help you get the word out.

Shane Moran Discusses the Power of Branding

Shane Moran Discusses the Power of Branding

Brand guidelines are a playbook to communicating what you do and ensuring consistency, not leaving important things to chance as the strategy and guidelines cover positioning, the message, brand personality, identity, presence, and core offers.

João Pereira of Forcera Simplifies the Incomprehensible in Tech

João Pereira of Forcera Simplifies the Incomprehensible in Tech

IPBN member company Forcera is a Software Development, Big Data, Analytics, and AI technology business partner that works across a multitude of sectors, providing end-to-end solutions that range from the cloud to the user interface. In other words, it’s a one-stop shop that creates software intended to drive innovation.

Joana Glória Guides Digital Nomads to the Best of the Algarve

Joana Glória Guides Digital Nomads to the Best of the Algarve

Aside from building up the Digital Nomad-geared platform into the masterpiece it is, Joana is now promoting her newest project-inside-a-project called “Workation.”

Spotlight on Michael O'Dwyer, CEO of Award-Wining TireCheck

Spotlight on Michael O'Dwyer, CEO of Award-Wining TireCheck

The third-annual IPBN Business Success Award for 2021 was given to the IPBN member company TireCheck and was accepted by the company’s CEO Michael O'Dwyer.

Sharon Dehmel Shows Us How Cultural Awareness Can Change the Face of Business

Sharon Dehmel Shows Us How Cultural Awareness Can Change the Face of Business

Start by writing your first and last name with your dominant hand five times. Describe how you felt doing that using three adjectives or so. Now switch hands and do it again. How does that make you feel? Describe it with three more adjectives. These last three words can be used to descr

Abacus is Shaping the Algarve, One Client at a Time

Abacus is Shaping the Algarve, One Client at a Time

When it comes to investing in property in Portugal, particularly in the Algarve, Anne Darlington, Manager of Abacus Financial Services in the Algarve praised the stability and safety that investors can find here.

Monsoon Consulting on Protecting the Talent of Kyiv Employees

Monsoon Consulting on Protecting the Talent of Kyiv Employees

Monsoon Consulting's four current locations include Dublin, London, Lisbon, and Kyiv, which got us thinking: what must the current climate be like for a company like Monsoon? We sat down with Victor Bauer and a member of his Kyiv team, HR and Recruitment Administrator Olesia Oliinyk, to find out.

Upwords' CEO Mário Rodrigues, In No Uncertain Terms

Upwords' CEO Mário Rodrigues, In No Uncertain Terms

Mario Rodrigues, the CEO at Upwords welcomed those in attendance at his Master Class on Thursday, February 10, and introduced his company as a language service provider with 20 years in the market has over 900 native specialized translators that specialize in the language of each sector in 1

Ventura Interior Design Has Some Exciting News

Ventura Interior Design Has Some Exciting News

Ventura Design, Ireland’s leading interior design and bespoke furniture manufacturing company is delighted to announce their expansion into mainland Europe, with the opening of their exclusive showroom in Quinta do Lago's Amancil later this summer.

Serenity Portugal is Giving Clients Tailor-Made Peace of Mind

Serenity Portugal is Giving Clients Tailor-Made Peace of Mind

The potential market of people with chronic medical conditions coupled with the elderly who all have a daily need for support was not being satisfied in Portugal, until now.

Nest Collective is Paving the Way for Something Big in Tech

Nest Collective is Paving the Way for Something Big in Tech

Almost immediately after we were founded, people wanted to join us. We currently have ten companies with over 100 people combined.” Antunes told the IPBN.

Chris Ginguene on the Power of Transformative Listening

Chris Ginguene on the Power of Transformative Listening

What makes music music? Some would argue that it’s the notes written on the page, the time signature that creates the rhythm, or even the heartbeat of the musician playing the piece, but Chris Ginguene argues that it’s the spaces in between the notes — the rests — that make a piece of music into something that we can fall in love with.

Spotlight on Michael Stock of the Quinta dos Vales Wine Estate

Spotlight on Michael Stock of the Quinta dos Vales Wine Estate

Thirteen years ago, Bavarian national Karl Stock bought some land in Portugal with the aim to make the best Algarvian wine on the market. According to his son Michael, IPBN Member and partner for the upcoming Alg

Allan Boyle Shows the IPBN How You Can Scale Your Business Efficiently

Allan Boyle Shows the IPBN How You Can Scale Your Business Efficiently

Allan Boyle of Saltwater Consulting held an IPBN Master Class entitled "How to Scale Your Business Efficiently" on October 12, 2021, in which he presented his wealth of knowledge in the sector through his own career history, his consulting strategy, and a case study.

Vendici Properties Navigates a Lockdown Buying Spree in Portugal

Vendici Properties Navigates a Lockdown Buying Spree in Portugal

Nixon believes that the final sales figures are coming in high for a number of reasons, but mainly, people were stuck in small cold spaces looking at the same four walls craving larger floor plans and warmer weather.

Bernadette Clancy Puts the Craft in Crafters of Ireland

Bernadette Clancy Puts the Craft in Crafters of Ireland

Over the last ten years, Bernadette Clancy has been working as a management consultant for state supports within Ireland specializing in design and innovation so

Desmond O'Neill

Desmond O'Neill

We are an advisory company in the healthcare market providing specialist consultancy services to organisations and companies operating in this sector.

Göran Engberg Wants You to Shape Your Vision

Göran Engberg Wants You to Shape Your Vision

How do business leaders take their wealth of experience in one scenario and apply it to something completely new? The online course “How to Create a Vibrant, Life-Changing Vision" might help facilitate just that.

Emma Allen at the Mespil Hotel Says Things Are Taking Off in Dublin

Emma Allen at the Mespil Hotel Says Things Are Taking Off in Dublin

In advance of the upcoming Members Meet Members event in Dublin on June 30 from 17h until 20h, Emma Allen, Group Sales & Marketing Manager of IPBN member company

Krystyna Rawicz

Krystyna Rawicz

KRA Visionary Project Partners provide Project Management and Building Surveying services to a broad and varied portfolio of clients, including high profile corporate and financial institutions, independent commercial companies and voluntary bodies.

Filipe Santiago

Filipe Santiago

BlueShift is a pool of some of the best hospitality talent in Portugal. Most of our activity is operating hotels and restaurants and developing consulting projects.

Aoife Healy

Aoife Healy

Pathway Consulting believes that having the Right Strategy + Effective Management is the best route to achieving the Clients planned results. We help clients in a variety of ways, depending on their needs.

Mark Downey

Mark Downey

Mark Downey is the owner of Speech and Presence, a communication training and coaching company based in Ireland and now operating in Portugal.

Helder Palhas

Helder Palhas

Aspire Technology delivers End-to-End mobile network optimisation services and software solutions. Networks is in our DNA.

Deirdre Mc Gettrick

Deirdre Mc Gettrick

ufurnish.com is an online furniture search and discovery engine, which helps connect people with amazing furniture from over 100 retailers including John Lewis, Wayfair, Dunelm and Grace & Grey.

Brian Shanahan

Brian Shanahan

Our business is comprised of 4 brands. Informita is a working capital and procurement consultancy, TermsCheck.com is a payment term database and Bonavido.com is a service to help corporates improve their short-term cash forecasts. These three brands are all focused on major corporate clients. The fourth brand is called Plésona. This is a business advisory service focused on small and medium sized enterprises.

Ivo Lemos

Ivo Lemos

AGREEN is an engineering consulting company acting in Project Management, Facilities Management and Consultancy.

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