Saffron Business Forum had its biggest ever breakfast on Friday at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Shaws Bridge with star guest Denis O’Brien in the hot seat with host Paul McErlean.

The event was sponsored by Whiterock Finance a locally owned Fund Manager, which was established in Belfast in 2012. David McCurley, Director, also took the opportunity to launch a new £75m equity fund, the largest ever locally managed equity fund to be available to businesses here.

Also promoting their businesses in the Three for Three slots were Magheramorne Estate,
Burke Systems and Solutions Ltd and MH Fire Safety Engineers.

In what was undoubtedly a major coup for the Saffron Business Forum, Dublin billionaire Denis O’Brien provided insights into the construction of his business empire with a series of fascinating stories about his work in the Caribbean with Digicel and in the South Pacific.

The 200 plus audience listened intently to Denis, who was very forthright on a whole range of issues, expertly questioned as always byPaul McErlean from MCE.

One of the key questions afterwards was, how could the forum ever top the quality of that speaker and event again? We will have to see…