This is a guest post from Liz Fleming, formerly of Enterprise Ireland Madrid and Dublin. Liz now works for HBAN, the  Umbrella organisation for Angel Investing in Ireland.

As part of Ireland’s First Business Angel Conference , we at HBAN are running a Business Angel of the Year competition.

Angel investors in Ireland are a vital source of financing for new business.  This competition is run to highlight the importance of the strategic value a business angel can add to an early stage business.  Often the expertise a business angel can offer is more valuable than the financial contribution made by a business angel.  HBAN wish to promote best practice in Angel Investing and seek to professionalise the Irish Angel Capital Industry.  With this aim HBAN would like to honour Ireland’s Angel Investor of the Year and need your help in identifying Ireland’s Best Angels.

To date Brian Caulfield (@BrianCVC) and Colm Lyon (@ColmLyon) are top of the polls!  Nominate your Angel of the year here.

The winner will be announced at the HBAN Business Angel Conference taking place on June 16th. The current lineup of speakers include Leslie Buckley (Digicel), Paddy Holahan (NewBay), Feargal Ó Móráin (Enterprise Ireland) with Mark Little as MC.

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This is a guest post from Liz Fleming, formerly of Enterprise Ireland Madrid and Dublin. Liz now works for HBAN, the  Umbrella organisation for Angel Investing in Ireland.

I’m a programme manager for HBAN,  tasked with the development of 10 syndicates of angel investors in an effort to stimulate further seed funding into high tech start ups.  HBAN is a joint initiative of InterTradeIreland and Enterprise Ireland and works closely with many of EI’s HPSU clients.

On June 16^th 2010 HBAN will hold Ireland’s first Business Angel Conference – ‘Building Winning National Ecosystems’.  This is the first conference of its kind specifically dedicated to Ireland’s Angel Capital Industry; a knowledge sharing event to upskill Ireland’s private technology investors who seeded new Irish Businesses by approx. €45m* in 2009, (figure taken from IVCA Venture Pulse 09).

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