Paddy Cosgrave formally resigns as director of Web Summit parent company

📆 11/3/2023 12:54 PM
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A Web Summit attendee passes by the Web Summit's logo during the Europe's largest tech conference last year. Photograph: Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP via Getty Images

‘Nothing ever keeps me up at night’: Gourmet Food Parlour owner on expansion and navigating adversityIceland pitches itself as a ‘digital suburb of Dublin’ in bid to secure data centre investments The event, which will kick off in 10 days time, became mired in controversy due to comments made on social media by cofounder, majority shareholder and former chief executive Paddy Cosgrave on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Mr Cosgrave subsequently apologised and resigned from his position after a number of high profile sponsors and speakers pulled out, including Google, Meta, Intel, Siemens, Amazon Web Services and Stripe.

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