Leslie Buckley

Leslie Buckley
Leslie Buckley is one of Ireland's most successful business consultants having helped manage the start-up of Esat Telecom Group plc and Esat Digifone Limited. He held the position of Chief Operations Officer of Esat Telecom in 1996 and 1997.

Leslie established his own consultancy business in 1990 and has since been retained on key public and private sector projects, including the reconstruction of Waterford Crystal plc, the reconstruction and sale of Irish Steel plc, consulting work with Irish Rail and the restructuring of Aer Lingus, Ireland's national airline.

Leslie is currently the Executive Chairman of Saon Group, one of the fastest growing online recruitment companies in the world, Vice Chairman of Digicel and a director and shareholder of a number of other Irish companies.

In January 2009, Leslie established Haven, a charitable foundation dedicated to building and up-grading houses for the poorest of the poor, initially in Haiti, though long-term partnership programmes with Communities and an annual Volunteer based “Build-It-Week”.

In March 2009, Leslie was appointed to the Board of IM&M as part of the company’s corporate restructure. In May of the same year, Leslie joined the Board of Aer Lingus.