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Martin Murphy, managing director, HP Ireland
Martin Murphy is managing director for Hewlett Packard (HP) Ireland and is responsible for driving HP’s business growth in the Irish market. In recent years, HP Ireland has achieved record growth and is now the largest IT and services provider in Ireland.
In June 2000, Murphy was appointed managing director of HP Ireland, having joined the company’s consulting organisation in 1986. In 1995, he was made sales director of the company in Ireland and presided over year-on-year double digit growth across all product lines North and South.
Since then, he has successfully steered the Irish operation through the Compaq merger, one of the largest in the history of the State, as well as other global acquisitions locally, including Electronic Data Systems, Mercury Interactive Corporation, Synstar and Schlumberger Business Continuity Services.
More recently, Murphy has been setting out the stall for HP as a key driver for innovation and job creation in the Irish economy.
In March 2009, HP created 500 new jobs in Leixlip as part of an €18-million investment in a multi-lingual support centre, followed in November with a further 50 jobs being created at HP’s Galway software development centre, which has been designated as a Centre of Expertise for Cloud Computing Services.
Murphy also sits on the board of the UCD Smurfit School and the Institute of Directors.
About HP
Founded by Stanford University classmates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939 – who decided the company name with a coin toss – global technology corporation Hewlett-Packard (HP) employs some 4,000 people in Ireland at its bases in Dublin, Kildare, Galway and Belfast.
HP has invested more than half a billion dollars in its greenfield site in Leixlip, Co Kildare, transforming it into the highly advanced Liffey Park Technology Campus. At the heart of the Leixlip campus lies the Dublin Inkjet Manufacturing Operation (DIMO), which is only place in Europe to manufacture print cartridges for HP inkjet printers.
The company also recently announced the creation of some 500 jobs at its Leixlip campus, as part of a major expansion to create a global services desk, which deals with HP customers in 16 countries.
HP’s Clonskeagh base in Dublin houses the company’s Customer Solutions and Support Centre (CSSC), which provides multilingual problem-solving support to enterprise customers across Europe and the developing world.
The company’s Galway operation houses its European Software Centre, which focuses on software and services R&D, software publishing services, and software management and e-business services.
HP has continued its growth in the Irish market of late, recently becoming the No 1 PC vendor in Ireland.
