Clodagh O’Brien joined Newmarket Consulting in January 1997 to provide consultancy and advisory services to clients across various areas.  Her specialist skills include business development, business planning, strategy, innovation, marketing, emarketing.  Clodagh enjoys the mix of working on a variety of projects and continuously learning from the new pursuits she is involved in, spanning the not for profit, public and private sectors. Clodagh’s expertise is in working with organisations experiencing challenges where creative solutions make the difference.

In 2009 Newmarket and Karan Thompson Consulting were appointed as Creativity and Innovation Coaches for Dublin as part of the CreativeD project. CreativeD is a project funded through the ERDF Interreg IVB tranche of funding, and has at its core the goal of bringing together the creative industries in Dublin to understand how the sector works, to define the pathways that lead to success and to facilitate network members in progressing projects in a supportive environment.