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Career moves 24 May
Friday, May 24 2002
by Matthew Clark


Nintendo appoints new president | Xpert Technology has made Dr. Cormac McCarthy
its new managing director.

Japanese videogame giant Nintendo Co Ltd. said on Friday its president,
Hiroshi Yamauchi, would step down on 31 May. Company director Satoru Iwata will
take his place. Seventy-four-year-old Yamauchi has led the games company for more
than 50 years and his resignation follows hints in January that he planned to
retire.





Xpert Technology, an Irish information communications and technology
group, appointed Dr. Cormac McCarthy to the position of managing director.
Previously, McCarthy was a divisional business development director at Eircom.
Prior to that, McCarthy was director with an international environmental business
based in Belgium and the UK. He holds a BE in civil engineering from UCC, an MSc
from UMIST, Manchester, in construction project management, and a PhD from the
University of Birmingham in project finance.





Sun Microsystems announced the appointment of Shay Moles to the newly
created position of support services country manager. According to Sun, this
senior role provides a single point of contact in Ireland for all service
delivery and support-related topics. Moles, who was previously regional customer
services manager in EMC's data general server division in the UK, will work with
customers and partners to facilitate the delivery of Sun's portfolio of support
services. Prior to his roles with EMC, Moles held the position of technical
manager with Reuters in Ireland. 





Biotechnology company MWG Biotech has appointed Dr. Denise O'Gorman
territory manager for Ireland in its Cork office. 





The founder of Educational Multimedia Group is reported to have stepped
down from the company's board. Twenty-nine year old Theo Lynn is said to have
severed all ties with the e-learning business that he established shortly after
graduating college. 





Venture capitalists, Cresent Capital has appointed Hal Wilson as
investment manager. Wilson moves over from Trinity Venture Capital.  





Wilde Technologies has appointed Robert Barany as software development
manager. Barany comes to Wilde from Trado where he was research and development
manager. 





Geraldine Walsh has been appointed management accountant at Datapac's
computer consumables division. Prior to this, Walsh was senior software support
consultant at Datapac subsidiary company Manser. 





Business technology solutions provider Orygen has appointed Eric Woods as
business development manager at its Dublin headquarters. He comes to Orygen from
Esat Business. 





Sage Ireland has appointed Philippa Taaffe as human resources director. She
previously worked as human resources director at Formus Communications. 



SportsSpread.com has made Tony Judge its new marketing director. Judge was
previously director of golf at Mt. Juliet Estate and chief executive at
Margaret's Golf and Country Club. 





McData Corporation, an open storage networking solutions company, 
announced the appointment of Ernest J. Sampias as its chief financial officer,
effective 1 June 2002. Sampias was most recently vice president finance and
controller at McData, and joined the company in September 2001. Prior to joining
McData, Sampias was with US West for fifteen years in various financial
management positions. 





Bertelsmann's on-line bookshop and entertainment store Bol.com has made
Jeremy Collingwood its new managing director after the departure of Tony Prescott
at the start of the year. Collingwood previously worked at PersonalPrint.com and
Voxstar, and was the founding managing director of Universal Music's e-tail
business Yalplay. He replaces interim managing director and consultant Bianca
Cory. 







UK telecoms watchdog Oftel has appointed Philip Rutnam as director of
regulatory policy. Rutman was formerly at the UK Treasury where he was head of
the enterprise team responsible for the Treasury's policy on business and
enterprise.