Joseph D. Keegan
Molecular Devices Corporation
 Dr. Joseph D. Keegan
has been the president and CEO of Molecular Devices Corporation (MDC)
since 1998. MDC is one of the leading suppliers of high-performance bioanalytical
measurement systems, which helps with drug discovery and diverse life
sciences research.
Dr. Keegan worked for Becton Dickinson and Company from 1992 until he
was hired into his current position. At Becton Dickinson he held a variety
of jobs including vice president of sales and service, vice president,
and general manager of the Immunocytometry Systems Division. He also served
as president of the Worldwide Tissue Culture Business. Prior to his time
at Dickinson, Keegan held several management positions at LEICA, Inc.,
a leading microscope manufacturer. He is currently a member of the Board
of Directors at Essen Instruments, Inc.
Keegan graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Chemistry. MDC
has a distributor in Dublin and Dr. Keegan has been to Ireland five
times during his life. A third-generation Irish-American, he traces his
roots on his father’s side to County Mayo. He is married and has
one son, Mark.
Philip Marineau
Levi Strauss Corp & Co.
 Philip Marineau,
president and CEO of Levi Strauss Corp & Co., has been a leader in
consumer products and marketing for three decades. Prior to his role at
Levi Strauss, Marineau was the president and CEO of Pepsi-Cola North America.
He was the leader in the 1990’s Pepsi surge that climaxed with Pepsi
outselling Coke in 1998.
From 1996-1997, the Georgetown graduate and Vietnam veteran was president
and COO of Dean Foods Company and previously worked for the Quaker Oats
Company for 23 years. Marineau also holds an MBA from Northwestern’s
Kellogg School of Business.
His Irish grandma Mamie lived with his family in Chicago’s North
Side, where he grew up in the Irish Catholic neighborhood known as “The
Patch.” Her family fled the potato famine in County Kerry
before settling in the U.S. in the 1850s. He is married with two children.
Roger McCarthy
Exponent, Inc.
 Dr. Roger L. McCarthy,
the Chairman Emeritus for Exponent, Inc. has been at the forefront of
the mechanical engineering field for the past 30 years. Exponent
is the largest engineering and scientific firm in the United
States and dedicates most of its energies towards the analysis and prevention
of failures of an engineering or scientific nature.
Dr. McCarthy is a Registered Mechanical Engineer in California, Arizona
and Georgia and has been involved in investigations of several disasters
including the Oklahoma City bombing. In 1992 President Bush appointed
him to a two-year term on the President’s Commission on the National
Medal of Science.
A graduate of Michigan and MIT, Dr. McCarthy holds five degrees:
a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan,
and an S.M, a professional degree in Mechanical Engineering (Mech.E.),
and a Ph.D. in the same field from MIT. He is a fourth-generation
Irish-American and is married with two children.
Eugene McCabe
Sun Microsystems
 This past March,
Eugene McCabe was named Executive Vice President for Worldwide Operations
at Sun Microsystems, Inc. McCabe is in charge of Sun’s supply chain
and its manufacturing and logistics programs. Sun is a worldwide leader
in computer networking, and McCabe plays an integral role in providing
cost effective product execution for Sun’s global customer demands.
Prior to his promotion, McCabe was the vice president for High End Operations.
He was in charge of the supply chain and operations engineering for the
company’s flagship Enterprise server. While in this position
he created advancements in Sun’s Customer Ready Systems. McCabe
has been with Sun since 1999 and has garnered several awards for his contributions,
one of which was the inaugural Sun Leadership Award in 2002.
McCabe was born in Ireland and received his Bachelor’s in Engineering
from University College Dublin. He spent time at DEC Europe and later
with Compaq, where he gained an array of skills, including system product
design. McCabe lives in Newark, CA where he is married with three children.
Mike McGavick
Safeco
 After several years
of declining results, Safeco, a Seattle-based property and casualty insurance
company, brought in Mike McGavick to turn things around. Since joining
the company in 2001, McGavick has become the chairman, president and CEO
of the corporation and has used aggressive tactics to point his company
in a progressive direction.
McGavick set a new course for Safeco by selling its Life and Investments
operations in August 2004 and focused on its Property and Casualty business.
Previous to his time with Safeco, McGavick held a number of positions
at CNA Financial Corporation, and helped engineer CNA’s e-commerce
strategy.
McGavick was named the Grand Marshal for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade
in Seattle in 2004 and was also declared the Puget Sound Business Journal’s
Executive of the Year in 2002. He is a third-generation Irish-American
and a member of Seattle Irish Heritage Club. McGavick graduated from the
University of Washington with a degree in political science in 1983. He
lives in Seattle with his wife and three children.
James E. McGovern
James E. McGovern Inc.
 McGovern is the
President and CEO of his company James E. McGovern, Inc. James opened
his insurance brokerage firm with just one employee in 1963 and
now has total revenue of over 22 million. Today, McGovern Inc. is co-owned
by his daughter Sylvia, and its clientele consists of small to medium
sized contractors and developers.
In 1999 the McGovern family suffered the tragic loss of their grandson
Benjamin to a rare type of leukemia. James organized a fundraiser for
leukemia research entitled “Walking for Ben” in memory of
their late grandson. The event raised more than $220,000 for the Leukemia
& Lymphoma Society Monterey Bay Area Chapter. He is the recipient
of numerous awards and honors including the National Publishing Co. Community
Service Award
James is a graduate of University of Washington and Golden Gate University.
He also served in the U.S. Army for two years as a Jag court reporter.
James is a second-generation Irish-American who traces his roots to Cork
and Cavan. He is married with five children.
Peter G. Milner
ARYx Therapeutics
 Dr. Peter G. Milner
is the co-Founder, President and Director of ARYx Therapeutics. He also
co-founded CV Therapeutics (CVTX) where he invented a number of successful
pharmaceuticals. He is on the Board of Directors for both Lifeline Technologies
and the SAB of ConjuChem Inc.
Before founding CV Therapeutics in 1992, Peter was an Assistant Professor
of Medicine and basic scientific investigator at the prestigious
Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Milner received his medical degree in 1980 from the University of Liverpool
and his postgraduate training in medicine was done at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and an
adjunct faculty member at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Peter is a first-generation Irish-American and traces his roots
to County Cork and Kevin Street in Dublin. Peter is married with two children,
Joanna and Caroline.
Tom O’Keefe
Tully’s Coffee
 Starbucks’ attempt
to lease space in one of Tom O’Keefe’s shopping centers in
1991 ‘brewed’ his interest in specialty coffee, and months
later he founded Tully’s Coffee, a premiere West Coast coffee chain.
As well as being chairman of the board of Tully’s, he also is president
and CEO of the O’Keefe Development Corporation, a real estate and
development firm he founded.
He donates a large part of his time to nonprofit organizations that
he founded and has received the “Breath of Life” award with
his wife Cathy for their efforts to cure cystic fibrosis. He has
also been honored by Big Brothers, the UMC, the Leukemia & Lymphoma
Society and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. O’Keefe is a member
of the United Way Million Dollar Roundtable and cites Henry Ford as an
Irish-American inspiration, and his most Irish characteristic as “Blarney…and
proud of it!” A graduate of the University of Washington, he and
his wife Cathy have three children.
Greg Murphy
Alliance Bernstein
 Since 2001, Greg Murphy
has been one of the preeminent figures in Alliance Bernstein Investment
Management Institutional, a firm with over $543 billion in assets.
Murphy is currently the senior vice president, regional director of the
Western U.S. and is responsible for over $15 billion in institutional
investment assets. In this position Murphy has focused on the marketing
of the firm’s investment products to Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett
Packard, and other Fortune 100 firms.
Prior to his time with Alliance Bernstein, Murphy spent 10 years with
Millon Institutional Investment Management. He graduated from the University
of Bridgeport with a degree in marketing and while there was a member
of the basketball team that went to the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament.
Murphy received his M.B.A. from St. John’s University.
He is a third-generation Irish-American with ties to Cork and Dublin.
He is a member of The American Ireland Fund in New York City and San Francisco.
Murphy lives in Century City, California with his wife Allison McQuade
and their three children.
David J. O’Reilly
Chevron Texaco
 Irish-born David
J. O’Reilly became chairman and CEO of the second largest U.S.-based
energy company when Chevron and Texaco merged in October 2001. The company
then became the fifth largest energy company in the world. O’Reilly
had been chairman and CEO of the Chevron Corp. since 2001. The University
College, Dublin graduate joined Chevron upon graduation in 1968 as a process
engineer. In 1989, he was made a senior vice president of Chevron Chemical
Corp, and in 1991 he became vice president of the parent company. He received
an honorary doctor of science degree in June 2002.
O’Reilly is chairman of the American Petroleum Institute’s
board of directors and is a member of the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation
board of directors, the San Francisco Symphony board of governors and
the Bay Area Council. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s
International Business Council, the JP Morgan International Council and
the American Society of Corporate Executives.
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