Name: Dave Young.

Age: 51.

Family: Married to Carol Mulligan; three daughters.

Education: BSc Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. MBA, University of Washington.

Hobbies: Distance running, skiing, mountain climbing.

Career: Worked as an operations officer aboard a US Navy nuclear submarine. Was a nuclear engineer for Westinghouse Hanford's liquid metal fast breeder reactor test facility. Spent two years with the Department of Energy's Reactor Research and Technology Division in Washington. Currently operations manager at HewlettPackard's inkjet cartridge manufacturing facility in Leixlip, Co Kildare.

Why is he in the news? Today marks the official launch of phase two of the Leixlip plant which has seen 500 people recruited over the past year.