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DECLAN J. GANLEY
CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
GANLEY GROUP OF COMPANIES
Declan Ganley (39), entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Rivada Networks designing and deploying broadband public safety communications networks for government customers.
Declan has founded wireless broadband and cable TV businesses, in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, including Broadnet (sold to Comcast), building and operating broadband wireless networks in ten EU countries, and Cabeltel, with an extensive cable multimedia network in Eastern Europe. With extensive experience in emerging markets, from 1991 he built what became the largest private forestry company in the Former Soviet Union, which he sold in 1997 to a consortium which included the Soros Group.
For a brief period in 1992, Declan acted as a Foreign Economic Affairs Advisor to the new Latvian Government. He has also acted as Economic Affairs Advisor to the Regional Government of Vologda (Russian Federation) in 1995/96.
Declan is Chairman of the Forum on Public Safety in Europe & North America, where senior leaders confer to provide policy and implementation recommendations to governments, legislators, public safety and defense entities in Europe and North America. He was an advisor on “technology and terrorism” to the Club De Madrid group of international heads of government and has served as a member of Futures Group of the Irish Government's Information Society Commission. He is founder and President of The Libertas Institute, a pan European think tank. He was awarded the JCI Entrepreneur of the year title in 2001 & 2005.
Declan is a recipient of the Louisiana Distinguished Service Medal for what was cited as his life saving actions; delivering communications capability for the US military post Hurricane Katrina.
Declan serves on the board of the University of Limerick Foundation and is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He is a former board member of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. He is married to Delia and they have 4 young children.
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