Chairperson

Dr. Frank Dolphin

A native of Birr, Co Offaly, Dr Frank Dolphin is the chairman of Rigney Dolphin, a successful services business he founded in Waterford which employs 1,100. He is a member of the board of Governors of Waterford Institute of Technology, a Fellow of the Marketing Institute, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a former President of Waterford Chamber of Commerce. He attended UCD, where he completed a PhD in Psychology.  Dr Dolphin worked as a clinical research psychologist at the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street and later as consulting Psychologist to St Joseph’s Clonmel, working with children in residential care. He lectured at TCD and in Waterford Institute of Technology in Psychology and Consumer Behaviour. In 1990 he established Rigney Dolphin initially providing strategic change and HR consultancy services to multinational companies. The company grew to provide a range of Business Process Outsourcing services for companies in the public and private sector.