Hospice CEO wins Social Entrepreneur award
Social Entrepreneur of the Year for Charitable Organisation Martina Jennings CEO Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation, with sponsor Eimear McGovern, Marks & Spencer Ireland at the IMAGE PwC Business Woman of the Year 2024.
The CEO of the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation was named the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award at this year’s IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards.
Crowned at a ceremony on Friday night in the Clayton Hotel in Dublin, the IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards celebrates the success, talent and accomplishment of female business peers across a wide arc of industries, professions and communities.
Martina Jennings became CEO of the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation in 2017.
Martina said that she was “thrilled to have been shortlisted for the IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards but to win is truly special. I must thank IMAGE, the judges and the sponsors for a wonderful evening and I want to dedicate my award to all of the families who we have supported over the years.”
This is Martina’s third accolade as she was awarded Mayo’s Most Inspirational Woman in 2015 and won Mayo Person of the Year in 2020.
Mike Smith, Chairman of the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation, said that they were “overjoyed and immensely proud to hear that our CEO Martina Jennings, won the PwC Businesswoman of the Year Award in the category of Social Entrepreneur of the Year for a Charitable Organisation. Out of 650 entries and 125 nominations, this is an incredible achievement. Martina’s exceptional leadership in the past eight years has brought the Foundation from strength to strength. We are all so proud of her.”
