John McMullan
Ireland
John is the Chief Executive of Bryson Charitable Group. After an initial 10 years of employment in local manufacturing John has been employed by Bryson since 1985 and now holds the position of Chief Executive. John now heads N Irelands leading social enterprise operating through 7 subsidiary companies each leading in a range of social business markets, which include social care; energy efficiency & fuel poverty; training services for people in unemployment; supporting ethnic minority families/communities and domestic recycling. He has led the repositioning of the Bryson Brand and overseen the significant growth of the Group, which currently employs 650 staff with a turnover circa £30m per annum (2010/11).
John was appointed by the Minister at the Department for Social Development as the first Chairman of the Northern Ireland Fuel Poverty Advisory Group & interdepartmental Group on Fuel poverty until 2009, was a member of the Minister’s Fuel Poverty Taskforce and appointed by the Minister of State at the Department of Communication, Energy & Natural resources (Republic of Ireland) as a board member of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (Sustainable Energy Ireland) 1999-2007.
He was elected a life Fellow of RSA in 2007; and in 2009 elected to the RSA Fellowship Council representing Ireland. John was awarded an MBE in the 1998 Birthday Honours List. In 2009 John was awarded the Distinguished Graduate Award 2009/10 by the University of Ulster.
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