Pat Lucey, a finalist in the 2020 EY Entrepreneur of the Year, is a successful entrepreneur and senior executive. Having qualified as an electronic engineer Pat worked with Siemens and Motorola, where he lead a global enterprise project division, before co-founding Aspira, an enterprise IT project company, in 2007. As CEO for 15 years, Pat established and expanded the business from and initial team of 6 to 225 people with offices in Cork, Dublin, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
Aspira merged with the Danish headquartered multinational emagine (formerly ProData Consult) in August 2022. The combined group has 675+ staff and revenues in excess of €470m, serving markets throughout Europe and India.
Pat is the former President of the Ireland Chapter of the Project Management Institute, a not-for-profit professional organisation for project management.