The appointment of Alan Crosbie, Chairman of Thomas Crosbie Holdings
Ltd, as an Adjunct Professor in the John C. Kelleher Family Business
Centre, UCC will be announced tonight (20 June 2006) at the annual Town
and Gown event in UCC. Alan Crosbie is a fifth-generation family
business owner. He is nationally and internationally recognized
as a leading authority on family business. This is reflected in his
frequent invitations to lecture and participate in workshops and
advisory panels, nationally and internationally.
"I am very pleased that Alan Crosbie has agreed to take up the
appointment as Adjunct Professor for the John C. Kelleher Family
Business Centre. His expertise and experience will complement the
existing skills within the centre, and will help us in developing our
work with family businesses throughout the country" said Dr Joan
Buckley, Director of the John C. Kelleher Family Business Centre.
Alan has been involved with the family business initiative in UCC since
the inception of the UCC Family Business Forum in 2001. He has acted as
Chairman of the UCC Family Business Partnership Board since 2003.
He combines his personal intimate experience of family business life
with knowledge gained through research for his book and mentoring other
family businesses. His book has been reprinted in Russia, India and
Pakistan and he has lectured on family business in a number of
countries.
According to Dr Buckley "Adjunct appointments such as this are to
recognise and encourage the significant contributions to the university
of members of the external community, and Alan certainly merits such
recognition. Alan has just finished a period as the Chairman of
Down Syndrome Ireland, where he worked tirelessly and with great
effect. I am pleased that we will now benefit from Alan's energy
and knowledge and am sure that he will make a very significant
contribution to the work of the family business centre."
Alan joined the board of Examiner Publications (Cork) in 1980 and
worked as Sales Manager. Later distribution and business development
were added to his portfolio. In 1993, he took over from his first
cousin once removed as Chief Executive Officer of Examiner Publications
(Cork) Ltd.
In 2001, Alan stepped down from Examiner Publications (Cork)
Ltd., and became Chairman of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd., a position
he still holds. Among the positions he holds, or has held, are:
His duties as adjunct professor will include delivering guest
lectures and seminars, as well as contributing to the development of
the research agenda of the family business centre.
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