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Between 1998 and 2001, Stephen Brewer, as CEO of Eircell, sparked an intense battle with Denis O’Brien’s Esat Digifone and, in the process, Ireland’s mobile economy was born. A little known fact about Brewer is that before he brought Ireland into the mobile revolution in the late 1990s, he played a definitive role in bringing Europe into the personal computing revolution in the 1980s, selling the first Apple computers after sparking up a close personal friendship with Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs. Brewer’s passion today is advising and mentoring young Irish mobile start-ups, including iMob Media, helping them to gain global traction in the global mobile network business. For more, see https://www.siliconrepublic.com Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/siliconrepublic Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/siliconrepublic