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                    EAMONN SINNOTT


































































                    From relatively low-key       contributor of about €12.5 billion   Educated at the CBS primary
                    beginnings, computer chip     in capital investment to the Irish   school and St Peter’s secondary
            ABOVE:
      Eamonn Sinnott,  and software manufacturer   economy since 1990.          school in Wexford, before going
              Intel  Intel arrived in Ireland over 25   At the helm of Intel’s Irish   on to graduate from university
                    years ago and began operating   activities is a man who grew   with maths and physics
                    out of a warehouse in west    up in Wexford town, Eamonn    specialities, Eamonn worked with
                    Dublin while waiting for its   Sinnott. He remains a frequent   Digital Equipment Corporation
                    headquarters to be readied.                                 in Galway before joining Intel as a
                                                  enough visitor to the streets and
                    Today it’s one of the country’s   countryside of his native locality   shift manager in 1991, starting off
                                                                                at its base in Albuquerque, New
                    most important private-sector   to know that it has as much, if not   Mexico, where he became familiar
                    businesses, employing almost   more, to offer any multi-national   with the landscapes and streets
                    5,000 people at its huge base   or smaller business, as any other   made famous on Breaking Bad.
                    in Leixlip, Co Kildare, and a   area in Europe.


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