Brody Sweeney founded the O’Brien’s Sandwich Bar chain in 1988, and together with his management team built the chain to over 300 outlets in 16 countries. In 2005 he retired from the day to day management of the business to pursue a career in politics’ and in the 2007 General Election, stood for the Irish parliament. He is founder of the Camile Thai Kitchen Group, a small chain of Thai focussed hot food delivery businesses. He is a non-executive director of Paddy Power PLC, one of Irelands leading e-commerce companies, He is co-founder of the Irish business charitable foundation, Connect Ethiopia. He is author of two bestselling business books Making Bread published in 2005, and Small to Tall published in 2008. Brody is a popular speaker on the business circuit, speaking on leadership, entrepeneurship, motivation and teambuilding. He also runs a successful residential training course for business owners “Small to Tall – How to grow your business from its entrepreneurial roots.”