Delphi Technologies has appointed Mr Declan Cunningham as company chairman. Until recently Mr Cunningham was head of information technology at AIB Capital Markets.

Ms Karen Coyle has taken over as marketing manager at Cuisine de France. Ms Coyle, who will be responsible for all marketing activities for the Irish and UK markets, joins Cuisine de France from Ballygowan.

Internet product development company Vistech has appointed Ms Audrey Dunne to the position of business development manager.

Alchemy Software Development recently appointed Mr David MacDonald as chairman of the board. Previously Mr MacDonald was chief executive of ITP.

Hoteliers Marie and Pat Chawke have taken over management of the recently refurbished Aghadoe Heights Hotel in Killarney.

A number of appointments have been made within Pareto Marketing, where Mr David Connor has been promoted to business development director, Mr Emmet Norris has been appointed business development manager and Mr Michael Conlon has been appointed commercial manager in Northern Ireland.

Ms Jane Marshall of McCann FitzGerald Solicitors has been elected president of the insolvency practitioners' organisation, INSOL Europe.

Dublin-based technology company Trust5 has announced the appointment of Mr Michael Walsh as director of sales and marketing. Mr Walsh, who joins Trust5 from Paribas Capital Markets, will be responsible for managing the company's growth in the Irish and international markets.

Cardbase Technologies has appointed Mr Brian Kearney as chief executive.

Mr Paul Sills has joined EDS Ireland as human resources manager.

Mr Don Oakley has returned to Independent Insurance to take on the role of manager of its Ireland office. Mr Oakley worked for Independent from 1996 to 1999 before moving to Royal Sun Alliance where he was strategy development manager.

Northern Trust (Ireland) has appointed Ms Elaine Austin as head of human resources.

CityReach International, the pan-European provider of infrastructure and managed services for the business Internet, has employed Mr John McLoughlin as general manager for its Irish operations.

Mr Arthur Cagney has joined MobileAware as head of sales Europe.

Ms Fiona Hunt has joined Dimension as head of recruitment advertising.

3Com Ireland has appointed Ms Deirdre Cashion as channel manager for Ireland.

Ms Aideen Cardiff has been appointed channel manager at HP Ireland.

Com21 Inc has announced the election of Mr Dave Torr to the post of vice-chairman of the digital video broadcasting davic interoperability consortium, following the creation of this new post.

Index Creative Communications has announced four new appointments to the agency's team. Mr Gerry Fitzgerald has joined as production manager. Mr Akina Simon has joined Index as a designer, while Ms Lynn Murtagh has been appointed account executive and Ms Niamh Farrell has been appointed office manager.

Mr Michael Carey has been appointed managing director for the UK and the Republic of Ireland at Kellogg's. Mr Carey, joins Kellogg's from Northern Foods where for the past two yeas he has been managing director of Fox's Biscuits.