Gavin O'Reilly
| Gavin O'Reilly | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 December 1966 Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Executive Director of Bayard Capital LLC Former CEO of The Agency Group Limited Former CEO of Independent News and Media Former President of the World Association of Newspapers |
| Spouse(s) | Christina Grimm O’Reilly (2012-present) Alison Doody (1994–2006) (divorced) |
| Children | Alanna Joan (1996) Lauren Susan O'Reilly (1998) Carl Lucas (2007) Carolina Grace O'Reilly (2011) |
Gavin Karl O'Reilly (born 17 December 1966) is a Dublin-born businessman with Irish and Australian citizenship, who lives in Los Angeles. A triplet, he is the second son and fourth child of former Irish media magnate and famed industrialist Sir Anthony O'Reilly (Sir Tony O'Reilly) and Australian Susan (nee Cameron) O'Reilly A.M. (deceased Nov. 2014).
He is currently Executive Director of Bayard Capital LLC - a privately-owned technology investment firm, with interests in Software as a Service (Saas), Biotech with other venture capital interests.
He is the Chairman of Los Angeles-based 360 VR tech solutions company, Wemersive, Inc. and also serves as Chairman of Red Flag Consulting which offers strategic and crisis communications advice from its offices in Dublin, London, Paris and Brussels.
He is the former CEO of The Agency Group Limited, which was sold to United Talent Agency LLC in August 2015. He was listed in Billboard Magazine's "The 2015 Billboard Power 100" in January 2015.
Prior to that, he was group CEO of London Stock Exchange-listed Independent News and Media PLC, the then largest press group in Ireland and South Africa and one of the largest media groups (in press, radio and outdoor advertising) in Australia and New Zealand (through its then investment in APN News & Media) and leading media investments in India and Indonesia, with almost 200 titles and a readership of over 100 million.
He is also the former President of the World Association of Newspapers (2005–2011), and a director of the Ireland Funds.
O'Reilly was born, the eldest of triplets, and fourth of six children, in 1966, in Dublin, Ireland and brought up in London, then in Fox Chapel, Pittsburgh, USA (1971 - 1980), when his father (Sir) Tony O'Reilly was Chairman and CEO of H.J. Heinz Inc, and then in Dublin Ireland. He attended Harrow School in London in 1981 and completed his high school studies at Clongowes Wood, a Jesuit private school in a historic house near one of the then main family homes, Castlemartin in Kildare, Ireland (which was bought by billionaire John Malone of Liberty Media in December 2014).
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