Kim Majerus, managing director, Cisco Ireland
3rd February 2010
Access for all to the digital opportunity.
If you take a look at the opportunities in e-commerce or opportunities for investment, you have to demonstrate that you as a country are able to supply products, people, talent, ideas, innovation – whatever it might be.
If we as a country took the opportunity to invest in the infrastructure, to provide that access, that tool, we could get a lot of people to the next level.
Obviously if you’re in Ballsbridge you’ve got connectivity without a problem, but if you’re in a small village down on the south coast of Kerry, do you have access and availability?
I think the Government has to have some responsibility in providing a push, but I think it’s the private sector that’s going to drive it as well. You can enable and you can offer but if there’s no one to receive the opportunity on the other side it becomes difficult.
We’re identifying ways to allow Irish SMEs to communicate, not just across the border from Northern Ireland to the Republic, but looking at getting that brilliant idea that was created in Wexford communicated to a large major corporation in the UK, in France or in the US. So, the private sector is going to also stimulate some of the ingenuity and innovation by listening.
Kim Majerus' biography
Kim Majerus is managing director at Cisco in Ireland and has worked in the technology industry for more than 20 years.
Majerus has been with Cisco for more than seven years, joining in the Channel organisation in the US. In 2006, Majerus moved to Cisco's UK and Ireland operations and subsequently became managing director of Cisco in Ireland.
Prior to joining Cisco, Majerus held a variety of roles at Motorola and Harris Corporation. She was born and brought up in the Chicago area of the United States but now lives in Dublin.
