St. John Anthony O'Reilly, generally Tony O'Reilly, Junior (born 1966 in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

) is a businessman with

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and Australian citizenship, the third son and sixth child of former Heinz Chairman & CEO and Irish media magnate

Tony O'Reilly Sir Anthony Joseph Francis O'Reilly (born 7 May 1936) is an Irish former businessman and international rugby union player. He is known for his involvement in the Independent News & Media Group, which he led from 1973 to 2009,Dublin, Ireland, ...

and Australian Susan Cameron. He is the former CEO of the Irish based oil and gas exploration company Providence Resources PLC and the former Chairman and CEO of Arcon, an Irish-based zinc mining company. He is currently the CEO of UK and Ireland focused geo energy transition company dCarbonX. He is married for the second time, with three children and three stepchildren and lives in Malta.

Early life and career

He was born, the youngest of six, and one of triplets, in 1966, in Dublin, and brought up in Ireland, at Castlemartin in

Kildare Kildare () is a town in County Kildare, Ireland. , its population was 8,634 making it the 7th largest town in County Kildare. The town lies on the R445, some west of Dublin – near enough for it to have become, despite being a regional cen ...

, and

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, US. After a difficult time at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

, he moved to London at the age of fifteen for 6 months, living in a bedsit flat for £25 a week, working at a supermarket and with a landscape gardener. He then returned to the family, later finishing secondary education at

Clongowes Wood College Clongowes Wood College SJ is a voluntary boarding school for boys near Clane, County Kildare, Ireland, founded by the Jesuits in 1814, which features prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Yo ...

and then studying economics and history at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

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, with an exchange year at the London School of Economics. At Brown University he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Career

He started work at

Morgan Grenfell Morgan, Grenfell & Co. was a leading London-based investment bank regarded as one of the oldest and once most influential British merchant banks. It had its origins in a merchant banking business commenced by George Peabody. Junius Spencer Morgan ...

but was let go after less than three weeks when his division was closed. After six months looking for a job, Tony O'Reilly Senior brought him on a business trip, on which he was speaking at the international convention of

Coopers & Lybrand PricewaterhouseCoopers is an international professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting ...

partners, after which he worked for that company for two and a half years working in the New York corporate finance department. In 1992, he relocated to Ireland, to work for mining company Arcon (part-owned by his father), responsible for Planning and Corporate Development for the Galmoy Zinc Mine. He was promoted and was CEO from 1997 to 2000, and chairman from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, he drove the merger of Arcon with Lundin Mining, a Canadian-based mining company, and joined their board. He was appointed a director of

Waterford Wedgwood Waterford Wedgwood plc was an Irish holding company for a group of firms that specialized in the manufacture of high-quality porcelain, bone china and glass products, mostly for use as tableware or home decor. The group was dominated by Irish bu ...

, dominated by his father, in 1998, and deputy CEO of the division of famous ceramics brand

Wedgwood Wedgwood is an English fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 by the potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. It was rapid ...

from 1 January 2001. He was made CEO of Wedgwood soon after. At the same time, he was a director of

Independent News and Media Mediahuis Ireland (formally Independent News and Media (INM) )) is a media organisation that is based in Dublin and publishes national daily newspapers, Sunday newspapers, regional newspapers and operates multiple websites including Independent. ...

, Providence, Fitzwilton Plc and Lockwood Financial Group . He moved from Wedgwood in September 2005 to take up the role as CEO of Providence, which he had founded in 1997 by divesting the hydrocarbon assets out of Arcon. In 2005, O'Reilly led the listing of Providence ion the Alternative Investments Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.The (Daily) Telegraph, London, 9 May 2006: "Market profile: Tony O'Reilly Junior" Over the next 14 years, Providence was involved in oil and gas exploration and production in Ireland, the UK, US and Nigeria. The company is in partnership with a number of international firms including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Transocean and Petronas. In December 2019, after nearly 15 years at the helm, he stepped down as CEO to pursue other opportunities.

Philanthropy

O'Reilly supports the work of

The Ireland Funds The Ireland Funds are a global fundraising network for people of Irish ancestry and friends of Ireland, dedicated to raising funds to support programs of peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education and community development throughout t ...

and is a trustee of the

O'Reilly Foundation The O'Reilly Foundation is a personal charitable trust set up in 1998 by media magnate, and former CEO of Heinz, Sir Anthony "Tony" O'Reilly. Its stated function is the funding of educational projects; the two main work areas in its active per ...

Personal life

He became engaged to Robin O'Reilly, née Rafford, whom he met while she was an advertising planner with Peter Owens, in November 1992,New York City, US: New York Times, Style Section, 8 November 1992, retrieved at nytimes.com (via search) 13 April 2008 and they married mid-1993. Mrs O'Reilly, a graduate of

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, Columbia (for an MBA), subsequently studied at the

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) is a medical professional and educational institution, which is also known as RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ireland's first private university. It was established in 1784 ...

, qualifying as a doctor, and later specialising in

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. She also became a major figure on the Dublin social scene, often seen with her sister-in-law

Alison Doody Alison Doody (born March 9, 1966) is an Irish actress and model. After making her feature film debut as Bond girl Jenny Flex in ''A View to a Kill'' (1985), she went on to play Elsa Schneider in '' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989). O ...

and winning an award as "Dublin Party Person of the Year" in 2002. The couple divorced in 2006, and in mid-2007 Mrs O'Reilly's Dublin home was sold, with a statement saying she planned to move to the UK to work in the art industry. He then divided his time between Dublin and weekends in

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

. Two of his children, daughter Grey-Alexandra ("Grey"), and youngest son Miles, live with his estranged wife, while his eldest son, Tony, lives in Malta. He became engaged to Michele Clements (née Calascione) in August 2007, and married for the second time on 4 July 2008, at

Lake Como Lake Como ( it, Lago di Como , ; lmo, label=Western Lombard, Lagh de Còmm , ''Cómm'' or ''Cùmm'' ), also known as Lario (; after the la, Larius Lacus), is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of , making it the thir ...

in Italy, with a reception at the Villa Pizzo. His children, and his new wife's three children, Josh, Sasha and Alana also, attended, along with family and friends. Born Calascione, Ms Clements is the second of four children of Alfred Calascione and Stephanie De Cesare, and was previously married.

Sources

* London, The Daily Telegraph
Business Profile: His Father's Providence
24 July 2006, Topaz Amoore

References

External links

dCarbonx
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oreilly, Tony, Jr. 1966 births Living people Businesspeople from County Dublin Cornell University alumni O'Reilly Foundation Tony, Jr. Waterford Wedgwood People educated at Clongowes Wood College People educated at Harrow School Brown University alumni