(November 15, 2023 – Boston MA) The Partnership announces the election of Jim Kelliher to its Board of Directors. Chief Executive Mary Sugrue said, “I have the privilege to welcome Jim Kelliher, who has been newly elected to our Board of Directors. As a four-time CFO and financial executive, his global business acumen, vision, and unwavering commitment to Ireland make him a tremendous asset to our organization.”

A four-time CFO and financial executive, Jim Kelliher served as CFO of Drift.com, a Boston-based Conversation Cloud Company, from January 2018 until May 2023. As CFO of Drift, Jim was responsible for all financial and administrative operations, including the finance, legal, IT, and facility organizations. He joined Drift from Actifio, where he served as CFO from 2015 to 2108. Previously, he was CFO at LogMeIn, from 2006 to 2015, where he played a pivotal role in growing the business through its successful initial public offering in July 2009. Prior to LogMeIn, Jim was the CFO of IMlogic from 2003 to 2006 and prior to that was in various financial roles at PTC Software from 1992 to 2003, including vice president of finance and International CFO, based in London.  Jim began his career as an audit supervisor at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Jim has also previously served on the Board of Directors of Fleetmatics Group PLC, an Irish company, which was a leading technology company in the fleet management market and had a successful initial public offering in 2013 and from 2014 to 2018 served on the Board of Adaptive Insights, a Palo Alto-based venture startup, that was acquired by Workday in July 2018.

Jim is also very active in promoting business between Boston and Ireland.  He currently serves on the Board of the Boston College Irish Business Council which is designed to enhance transatlantic business development opportunities between Boston and Ireland and has worked for a number of years with the Ireland Gateway to Europe organization. Jim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accountancy from Bentley University.

Partnership Chairman, Michael T. Clune said, “Mr. Kelliher’s long-time dedication to supporting Irish education and community development initiatives is inspiring and we are delighted to welcome him to the Board.”

 

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Dedicated to connecting Irish America and friends of Ireland to their heritage through targeted giving – we invest in education, community development, and peace initiatives across the island of Ireland. Since our inception in 1986, our supporters have raised over $53 million for young people and communities, North and South, empowering and educating the next generation of global leaders. For more information please visit www.irishap.org.