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Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 to speak in Waterford
18.02.2010
Founder and CEO of Taxback.com Terry Clune is the guest speaker at an MBA Association event in Waterford Institute of Technology on 25 February, sharing his inspiring story of a campus idea that has grown into a multinational company.
Taxback.com is a €100m euro business operating in 19 countries. Clune recently won the 2009 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and will represent Ireland at the 2010 World Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in Monte Carlo in May against winners from 40 other countries.
AN ENTREPRENEUR FROM A YOUNG AGE
According to a recent interview in UK magazine Moneyweek, Clune, aged 37, just can't stop making money. At the age of seven, he collected sacks from local farmers and sold them on to a local timber merchant. At 20, he ran discos at Trinity College Dublin, using the money to buy his first computer. Now he heads up one of Ireland's fastest-growing businesses, €90m-a-year tax services firm Taxback.com.
Clune got the idea of becoming a tax expert from one of the entrepreneurial ventures he experimented with at university.
Established in Dublin in 1996, Taxback.com has 26 offices worldwide — in Europe, Australasia, the US and South America — and a staff of over 630.
It is a preferred supplier of tax return services internationally with global partners including VISA Europe, Concur Technologies Inc., Barclaycard Bank, Saongroup.com, CIEE and Informa.
Photo: Terry Clune, founder and CEO of Taxback.com
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