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Graham Byrne, head of Ireland and Scotland businesses, Promethean
Graham Byrne is the head of Promethean’s businesses in Ireland and Scotland.
He took over the role of Head of Ireland in February 2009 and assumed leadership of the Scottish business in December 2009.
He has overall responsibility for developing and implementing market and channel strategies with a view to strengthening Promethean’s ActivClassroom market position.
A key focus has been building Promethean’s educator support capabilities, and enhancing its strong links with government, teacher and parent communities. Graham has been deeply involved in developing innovative partnerships with fund raisers designed to help schools to finance interactive classroom systems, and with educational publishers to create localised interactive curriculum resources.
Byrne was born in 1973. He began his career in sales with Cable in Wireless, working in a number of senior sales roles, before moving to Global Crossing Financial Markets in London as global account director, responsible for managing its global matrix sales teams. Byrne then joined MCI Worldcom (Verizon) in a similar capacity.
On returning to Dublin, Byrne embarked on a number of entrepreneurial ventures, including founding and selling a retail group and acquiring Ashfield, the second level and IT education group.
Byrne studied commerce in UCD before completing his MBA at the Smurfit Business School in 1996.
About Promethean
Promethean's aim is to unlock the potential of human achievement in education and training at all ages around the world. It does so by creating, developing, supplying and supporting leading edge, interactive learning technology and by encouraging the growth of the world's largest online teacher community in this field. In these ways, Promethean is helping bring to life the promise of 21st-century learning, improving engagement and results for learners and teachers alike.
Promethean is a global leader in interactive education technology solutions. Like our namesake, Prometheus, we strive to bring the light of knowledge to the world. Our success is the result of a sincere desire to encourage and create innovative education solutions. Our ActivClassroom is an industry-leading, comprehensive 21st century classroom solution.
Everything we do at Promethean begins with two basic premises:
1 - No one understands teaching better than teachers.
2 - The best way to engage tech-savvy students is through technology.
By thoughtfully combining these two simple ideas, Promethean is revolutionising the way education happens.
Promethean leverages the real-world knowledge that these former educators bring in developing all of our products, solutions and support services. They help guide our specialised engineers in the creation of innovative, relevant, user-friendly education solutions -- solutions that work together to form an holistic education environment that we call The ActivClassroom.
Promethean proudly maintains the world's largest online community of educators on a specially dedicated website: www.prometheanplanet.com. Promethean Planet is where educators find a community of unparalleled peer and technical support as well as a warehouse of premium and free resources -- including interactive lessons, educator forums, and training courses.
