‘Genuinely care about the people you work with’

Each week, we profile one of Ireland’s foremost corporate leaders, tracing their career to date and exploring the lessons they have learned along the way. This week, we meet Shay Walsh of BT Ireland

Shay Walsh, managing director of business sales with BT Ireland Picture: Maura Hickey

As managing director of business sales with BT Ireland, Shay Walsh is responsible for business sales in the North and South. He oversees 170 people, selling global networking, cloud and IT services to business and public sector clients.

Walsh graduated from Dublin City University in 1993 with a degree in electronic engineering, and went on to complete an MBA from UCD Smurfit Business School in 2000.

He joined Timas (now Galileo) in an ...