FORMER MANAGING Director of Dromoland Castle Hotel, Mark Nolan has been appointed as the new President of Shannon Chamber.
Nolan succeeds Managing Director of Eoin Gavin Transport, Eoin Gavin in the role.
From 1996 until February of this year, Mark served as Managing Director of Dromoland Castle. In 2009, he added the post of Managing Director of The Dromoland Collection to this role, he undertook a four-year management contract with Castlemartyr Hotel & Resort in Co Cork.
He worked closely with the six-member Board to maintain Dromoland Castle’s sterling reputation as one of Europe’s finest resorts and, in 2012 welcomed the Clare Inn Hotel now rebranded ‘The Inn at Dromoland’ to The Dromoland Collection.
In addition, he founded Hallmark Management Ltd which undertakes small design and fit-out projects at other five-star hotels. Mark sits on the boards of IBEC, the Atlantic Connectivity Alliance, and the school advisory board of Atlantic Technological University. He also sat on the Board of Directors of the Shannon Airport Authority in 2010/2011.
While he stepped down as Managing Director and General Manager of Dromoland Castle in February, he remains involved as a board member, investor/shareholder and consultant. He became General Manager at the five-star Newmarket-on-Fergus resort at the age of twenty nine in 1989.
Last May, Mark received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the world’s largest independent hotel brand, Preferred Hotels & Resorts. He is married to Maria and they have four children, Jessica, Andrea, Gillian and Marcus.
CEO of Shannon Chamber, Helen Downes said Mark’s appointment as President “is a natural progression in his tenure as a board member. His guidance and contribution as a director since 2009 have been invaluable and he has a vastly experienced track record at leadership level. This expansive and cumulative wealth of experience will enable him to steer the board as we work to deliver on a very wide range of programmes to benefit our 330 member companies and the region as a whole”.
She praised Eoin Gavin for his untiring stint as President and noted he was the first Shannon Chamber President to serve for a three-year term. The Sixmilebridge man will remain as a Director with Shannon Chamber.
