LBDC | Lawyers’ Business Development Club |
London │ Dublin │ Dubai │ Boston │ New York | San Francisco
Est’d London 2011
Official Partners
London | Keltie LLP
Dublin | Global Leadership Institute at Boston College
Previous Guest Speakers include:
The Chairman of Goldman Sachs International | The Deputy Worldwide Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi | The CEO of PayPal (MENA) | The CEO of Hogan Lovells | The CEO of O2 / Telefonica | The CEO of Saatchi & Sa atchi (MENA) | The CEO of PwC (Ireland) | The CEO of Bank of Ireland (UK) | The CEO of Sunderland FC | The CEO of the Law Society of England & Wales |
The GC of MetLife Inc. | The GC of Pearson Plc | The GC of Manchester United FC | The GC of the Intercontinental Hotels Group | The GC of The Weir Group plc | The GC of Network Rail | The GC of Carillion plc |
LBDC (Dublin)
Exclusive Event
with
Guest Speaker
Gareth Lambe
Facebook Ireland Boss
sponsored by
Boston College’s Global Leadership Institute

NEWS: As some of you may know, last year we had some exciting news when Boston College’s Global Leadership Institute became the official partner of the Dublin chapter of the LBDC | Lawyers’ Business Development Club |. The Global Leadership Institute has been a great support to the Club not only in Dublin but also in London, Boston, New York and Dubai.
We are absolutely delighted that Boston College’s Global Leadership Institute will sponsor and support our first keynote speaker event of 2016 at the LBDC | Lawyers’ Business Development Club | in Dublin. We are also delighted that our good friend and supporter Dr. Robert M. Mauro (founding director of the Global Leadership Institute) will be joining us from Boston for this exclusive event.
Our very special guest speaker will be Gareth Lambe, the CEO of Facebook (Ireland). GARETH has kindly agreed to tell us about his personal career journey and Facebook.
It promises to be a fascinating Talk. We hope you will be in a position to join us.
LBDC | Lawyers’ Business Development Club |London │ Dublin │ Dubai │ Boston │ New York | San FranciscoOur 47th Guest Speaker Event |
When: | Wednesday, 10 February, 2016 |
Timings | Pre-event networking: 12.30 pm – 1.00 pm | Talk: Gareth Lambe, TALK from 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm. Post-Talk networking: 2.00 pm to 2.30 pm |
Where: | The stunning private members’ club (The St Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club) |
Sponsor | Global Leadership Institute at Boston College |
Cost | FREE of charge |
RSVP |
colin@lawyersbdc.com |
Gareth Lambe | Facebook Ireland Boss |
Gareth Lambe is the Head of Facebook Ireland – responsible for the health and success of Facebook’s International Headquarters in Dublin, employing over 1,000 people.
Gareth started his career in brand marketing with Pernod Ricard, and was later part of the start-up team of Pigsback.com. In 2009 Gareth joined PayPal as Director of Merchant Operations EMEA, running a team of 300 people across Account Management, Business Support and Telesales. In his four years at Facebook Gareth has run the Advertising Operations function and latterly the Sales Planning and Operations team – driving the operations and strategy for Facebook’s sales organisation across EMEA.
Gareth is married with three young children and is a rugby fanatic.
The Friday Interview: The Irish Times
You may be interested to read a recent interview Gareth Lambe gave to the Irish Times (9 October 2016). The interview is on the link below.
The Global Leadership Institute
The Global Leadership Institute at Boston College offers dynamic programming for professionals looking to expand their areas of expertise and meet other like-minded individuals.
Through our custom designed and open enrollment programming, the Global Leadership Institute empowers you to reflect on your career, connect with influential leaders in the field, enhance your skills, and learn cutting edge techniques.
The Global Leadership Institute: Dublin Campus
Like EMC, Apple, Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and so many others, Boston College chose to make Dublin its European headquarters.
At our beautiful location on St. Stephen’s Green in the heart of Dublin, Boston College faculty offer the same high quality academic sessions our participants have come to expect in GLI programs.
Participants in GLI Europe programing will engage in short, weekend programs that are suited for the lives of busy professionals. This intensive program will ensure an efficient and educationally benefical experience.
Programs
We at the Global Leadership Institute are experts at designing custom programs to serve the needs of our students and partner organizations.
We closely follow trends in domestic and global social, political, and economic circumstances to identify ways in which we can help our participants achieve their professional goals. Working across a wide range of industries and businesses, we create engaging programs that connect our participants with leaders both in and out of the classroom.
Programs Types:
The Executive Course program list for 2015-2016 will be available shortly.
LBDC members will receive a discount on the above programs. If you are interested in receiving the program list, please feel free to email: colin@lawyersbdc.com
Dr. Robert Mauro
Dr. Robert M. Mauro is the founding director of the Global Leadership Institute (GLI). He is also the director of the Irish Institute at Boston College.
As director of the GLI, Dr. Mauro is responsible for delivering certificate programs for executives at Boston College in Chestnut Hill and GLI offices in Dublin and Dubai.
Before coming to Boston College Dr. Mauro completed his PhD (The Practice of Ideology, 2009) in Political Science and undertook a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Institute for British-Irish Studies (IBIS) at University College Dublin (UCD). While there he worked on a project, titled Breaking the Patterns of Conflict: The Irish State, the British Dimension, and the Northern Ireland Conflict, a comprehensive oral history of policy makers involved with Northern Ireland peace process from the Sunningdale Agreement to the St. Andrews Agreement.
Dr. Mauro has extensive experience in university administration and a deep interest in entrepreneurial practices, which he has deployed over the first year of the GLI’s operations. During the past five years as director of the Irish Institute, Dr. Mauro designed and implemented professional education programs for developing and senior leaders in Ireland and Northern Ireland. These programs hosted over 600 participants from fields as diverse as business and innovation, policy, science and technology, and bureaucracy.
In addition to his work at Boston College, Dr. Mauro is active in ensuring that Boston College is well connected to the community. He is past-President of Irish Network Boston, a Director of the Wild Geese Network of Irish Scientists, a board advisor to both The Frederick Douglass- Daniel O’Connell Project the Gaelic Players Association New England. Dr. Mauro received a “Top 40 Under 40” in Irish-America award in 2013; and in 2015 was named to the Top 100 Irish Academics list.
RSVP
It would be great to see you if you were interested in joining us at the LBDC | Lawyers’ Business Development Club | in Dublin for Gareth’s Talk. It promises to be a fascinating lunchtime session.
Places will be limited and will be offered on a first-come first-served basis. A waiting list will be in operation once all the places have been allocated.
To RSVP, please email me:
colin@lawyersbdc.com
I look forward to hearing from you.
Colin
Upcoming Talks
Over the next few months, we will have some wonderful LBDC Talks taking place in:
London
Dublin
San Francisco
LONDON
Guest Speaker | Dan Fitz General Counsel of BT plc
More details | Dan Fitz GC guest speaker at LBDC
Guest Speaker | Orla Muldoon, Chief Counsel EMEIA & Asia for Archer Daniels Midland
More details: Orla Muldoon guest speaker at the LBDC (London)
SAN FRANCISCO
Guest Speaker: Matthew Fawcett, Senior VP and General Counsel of NetApp

More details: Matthew Fawcett guest speaker at the LBDC (San Fran)
DUBLIN
Guest Speaker: Gareth Lambe, CEO of Facebook (Ireland)
More details: Facebook (Ireland) CEO
Previous LBDC Guest Speakers | LONDON
DUBLIN
Previous LBDC Guest Speakers
NEW YORK
Previous LBDC Guest Speakers
Bjarne P. Tellmann, Senior VP & GC of Pearson Plc
More details: Bjarne Tellmann guest speaker at the LBDC
BOSTON
Previous LBDC Guest Speaker
DUBAI
Previous LBDC Guest Speaker
Colin Carroll
CEO
LBDC | Lawyers’ Business Development Club |
London │ Dublin │ Dubai │ Boston │ New York | San Francisco
Est’d London 2011
Official Partners
London | Keltie LLP
Dublin | Global Leadership Institute at Boston College
Contact | Colin on email: colin[at]lawyersbdc.com