Ciara Byrne is the Vice President of New Business Innovation at Condé Nast. She is responsible for developing international businesses for Condé Nast brands across its markets around the world. Using a design thinking lead process their team develops businesses from conception through to implementation across direct to consumer and B2B models. Ciara is driving the metaverse and NFT strategy for Condé Nast globally across all brands working with all teams around the world.
Before joining Conde Nast, Ciara spent five years at Google working across the AdWords, YouTube and Doubleclick teams in Dublin and London.
Ciara earned an International Bachelor of Arts Degree at University College Dublin in English and Philosophy and secured the position to study Philosophy at the Sorbonne IV Paris. She attended UCD Michael Smurfit Business School where she completed a Masters in Management. Ciara also completed a Degree in Piano Performance at the London College of Music.
Ciara sits on the World Economic Forums Global Future Council on Metaverse.