Primary Job Title Founder ,Chairman & CEO Primary Organization 
Rivada Networks
Location Galway, Galway, Ireland Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Declan Ganley, Founder, Chairman & CEO of Rivada Networks, a leading public safety communications business with operations in the US and Europe. Ganley has been the founder of wireless broadband and cable TV businesses in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, including Broadnet, which deployed broadband wireless networks in ten EU countries, and
Cabletel, with a cable multimedia network in Eastern Europe. He is the patented Co-Inventor of Dynamic Spectrum Arbitrage technology.
Ganley served as Chairman of the Forum on Public Safety in Europe & North America 2005-2007, where senior leaders confer to provide policy and implementation recommendations to governments, legislators, public safety and defence entities in Europe and North America. He was an advisor on ‘technology and terrorism’ to the Club De Madrid group of former heads of government and served as a member of Futures Group of the Irish Government's Information Society Commission. He was awarded the JCI Entrepreneur of the year title in 2001 & 2005.
Ganley has served on the boards of the University of Limerick Foundation, The Irish Chamber Orchestra, and is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He is a published speaker, op-ed author and media commentator on EU/International affairs topics and business and public safety communications.
In 2005, Ganley was awarded the Louisiana Distinguished Service Medal for his and Rivada’s life saving actions, leading the delivery of communications capability for emergency responders in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
