Alistair Matthew Hanna (18 January 1945 – 12 July 2014) was a Northern Irish businessman who managed the controversial Bushmills Dunes golf resort project.
Hanna was born in
Holywood, Northern Ireland. He did his undergraduate work at
Queen's University Belfast
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in physics and received his
doctorate in 1972 in nuclear physics at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment near Harwell, as well as an
MBA from
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
in 1974.
After joining the global consulting firm,
McKinsey & Co., he rose to the position of managing partner, of the
Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford () is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut, outside of Manhattan. It is Connecticut's second-most populous city, behind Bridgeport. With a population of 135,470, Stamford passed Hartford and New Haven in population as of the 2020 ...
, office and led the firm's microelectronics and software practices operations. After retiring as a managing partner in 1997, he was Chairman of the Board until 2004. From 2004 onwards he chaired
Alpha North America, a Christian group that provided coursework and an educational environment for a variety of Christian denominations.
He died of cancer in June 2014, survived by his wife, Nancy, and his step-daughter.
References
External links
Independent review of Alpha
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1945 births
2014 deaths
Businesspeople from Northern Ireland
Harvard Business School alumni
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast