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‘First candidate. Marie Erten-Loiseau. Born in Prague, her family moved to Toulon when Marie was twelve years old. Brought up in France, she was educated as an aeronautical engineer in France and Germany.
Marie worked for Trianon for 13 years, in two divisions within France and Germany with increasing levels of project responsibility. Her leadership of two projects over the last three years in Lodz, Poland, and two sites in the Czech Republic has been marked by remarkable success. Married, her husband is semi-retired.
They have one child in university.

Second candidate. Janos Gabor. Born in Gyor, Hungary, Janos was educated at University of Pecs, Hungary.
He has a good background in the production of cathode ray tube and display systems technologies, albeit from the Central European perspective. He has worked at Trianon for nearly four years, and has just been transferred into the cathode ray tube division as a Senior Engineer. His family is reportedly very well connected with national government officials, particularly the old, ex-party members of multiple ministerial bureaucracies. Janos is single.

Third candidate. Sinead Marrinan-McGuire, a production engineer on loan to Trianon’s London office for joint venture analyzes and ‘due diligence’ reviews on technical and legal grounds. She has spent three years in the R&D development team in Dublin and London, working on the very technologies to be applied in this Hungarian joint venture project. Alistair met and talked with her today in Limerick and was very impressed with her understanding of corporate level concerns and strategic issues. Most of her career has been in Ireland and around London, with only short, tactical trips to France. Married, her husband is a solicitor in Dublin. They have three children, ages 7, 9 and 13.

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