One of Ireland's most dynamic business figures will be the guest speaker at this week's meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club (MOCC).

Pearce Flannery is the founder and CEO of Pragmatica, a marketing and HR consultancy group whose training and motivational programmes are widely recognised as being among the most innovative in Irish industry today.

In 2006, he won the JCI / PricewaterhouseCoopers' Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 award.

The MOCC meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 3rd, at 11am, in GMIT's Castlebar campus.

MOCC is a business network run by businesspeople for businesspeople. The event is free of charge, and the aim is to let businesspeople make contacts, pitch their business, and get assistance on business issues and challenges.

All meetings start at 11am and last between one hour and 90 minutes. There will also be networking opportunities.

All you have to do is turn up on the day. More details on the Mayo Open Coffee Club are available on http://mayo-open-coffee-club.org/, or you can email any of the organisers: Chris B Kerndter (chris@achill-online.net), Robert Grealis (Robert@thediscoverypartnership.com); Maria Staunton (Maria.Staunton@gmit.ie), or Liam Horan (liam@slinuacommunications.com)

Start-up businesses, people with the germ of an idea, and established businesses all find the Open Coffee Club a useful vehicle to get in touch with what's happening in the business world around Mayo.

More information on Pearce Flannery is available at http://ie.linkedin.com/in/pearceflannery.