About

With decades of working in the design, brand and marketing industry, Paul leads the team with a Masters in Professional Design Practice along with 5 years of a PhD. in Design Innovation in NUIM.  Paul has grown CDG to be one of Ireland’s leading full-service design agencies with an enviable portfolio of clients across the world. Shortlisted for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year and many other design accolades he shows that determination, innovation and persistence bring reward. Paul is a well-respected designer in his own right and has lectured and talked at seminars on branding and entrepreneurship.

Kieran is the Creative Director at CDG and has been with the company since 2010.  He Graduated from Ballyfermot College and started out working with CDG as an Intern.  Kieran’s skills include Brand, Web, UI, UX Design as well as print and he has many years of professional experience in the design industry.

A strategic thinker with a good eye for detail, good communication skills and with the ability to take a job from initial concept through to final delivery.

Dan is our senior strategist and has worked alongside CDG for 20 years. Dan has an enviable pedigree in practice and academically. He is an MBA graduate from INSEAD and lectures MBA students in Michael Smurfit Graduate School.  Dan’s skills include International Market Development, Strategic planning, and venture capital funding. He was chairman of the Scientific Advisory board in Germany. Worked in ACT venture capital IT sector, RTE, Seimens, and currently, runs his own business Nua Venture.

A strategic design thinker with huge international experience, great speaker and the ability to take any company to world-class standards.

Kilian ensures our customers benefit from the highest levels of service from initial contact through to agreeing on objectives and managing projects to their successful completion. A Business & Marketing honours graduate, Kilian has over 25 years’ experience in marketing, sales and client management. Kilian’s particular skills include digital marketing strategy and execution, public relations / copywriting and client management. He brings to the table the ability to properly understand the needs and requirements of clients and translate these into successful outcomes and solutions.

Reema is the Lead developer at CDG. She has graduated in Computer Science with Applied Maths. Subsequently completing a post-graduate degree from Dublin Business School in Web Technologies and Cloud Computing with first class honors.

Her skills include Web & Software development in .Net and PHP. Reema has over 12 years of professional experience in the software and web industry internationally.

Rob is an Irish writer, Historian, Photographer and filmmaker. Rob has travelled over 1 million Km filming, photographing and exploring ancient sites for books and TV series on RTE, UTV and BBC.  His unique knowledge of Ireland’s history and archaeology is available as Adams & Buttle bespoke tours guide of amazing Ireland.  The uncanny and esoteric is what Rob looks for in a story and film production. Rob has an amazing character and the ability to make a video production shine with warmth and interest. Rob heads up our digital video production and filmmaking while working from his castle in the Kerry Kingdom.

Slaven is a graphic designer and an advanced user of all Adobe Packages and a Blender 3D user.  He enjoys music, sports, nature, people and animals, and takes inspiration from it all. With a degree in graphic design at the University of Rijeka in Croatia Slaven has 13 years of experience working in Graphic and Web design for all visual and digital media projects. Slaven has a diverse set of skills in brand design and brand implementation.

Ana is a Graphic Designer at CDG. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design at Centro Universitário Belas Artes and started working at Digital Music as an intern and junior designer for more than one year in Brazil.

Ana has 6 years of experience working in graphic design, brand design, editorial and digital media creation.

Ciaran is our UI/UX product development guy. He has a Bachelor’s degree in product design from NUIM. Ciaran has experience working on new product development in Web and App Design. Ciaran creates user-friendly interfaces that enable users to understand how to use complex technical products. He is passionate about the latest technology trends and devices and is always involved in the design process for the next hot app or web platform.

Tom is our senior account manager leading CDG’s core client project management. Tom works with our clients ensuring our clients ideas remain faithful to the brief and that it is kept within the time frame and budget.

The most important task in account management is to design the brief; a well targeted brief can be the making of a great campaign. While Tom’s work varies depending on each clients requirements, Tom will normally be responsible for client budgets, for managing the work of account executives and performing a range of related administrative functions. Tom also has a degree in Graphic Design and a masters in Professional Design Practice.

Every piece of communication should help to build your brand. A part of that is to give all of your communications consistency in language and tone-of-voice. I’ll take care of that too.

I work with a panel of excellent art directors and designers so if you want me to manage the visual side of the communication task, consider it done.

If you need a hand with your marketing plan, all you have to do is ask.

From Kelloggs to Guinness, Nike to AIB, I have worked in every media imaginable for every major brand and company in Ireland, and many overseas.

Grace has worked in customer care for 5 years. Grace ensures that the customers of CDG are being provided with satisfaction by leading and motivating the customer service team, developing loyalty programs, and creating customer satisfaction goals. Grace is a graduate of Cebu Technological University and has a degree in Bachelor of Science in Management. Experienced in Sales and Marketing. Grace brings to the table ability to properly understand the needs and requirements of clients and translate these into successful outcomes and solutions.

Vlado is a UI/UX and new media designer at CDG. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communications at the University of Rijeka in Croatia and has 15 years of experience working in UI/UX for all digital media projects. Vlado has diverse skills in video animation, branding and web design and is our frontend and UI/UX designer.

Dave has worked professionally within the media industry for 30 years, with a degree in design and video capture Daves skills and experience has proven hugely beneficial to all CDG’s new business development innovations. Dave thrives on new projects that need a creative visual story told and looks forward to an out-of-the-ordinary challenge. Over the years Dave has worked on a huge range of productions for B2C and B2B productions for Online Social campaigns, to Native Pieces for media outlets.

Artemi is a senior WordPress developer at CDG. He has a Degree in Computer Science from Kyve University Tech. & Design. He has subsequently completed a post-graduate masters degree in UCD in Web Technologies and Cloud Computing with first-class honours. His skills include Web & Software development in .Net and PHP. Artem has over 10 years of experience in the WordPress CMS, App, Software and Web industry.