The Trinity Business Student of the Year is a competition open to 4th year business students, coordinated by the Trinity Business Alumni (TBA) in association with the Trinity College School of Business.  Finalists are short-listed from nominations received by staff and students of the College. The Bank of Ireland sponsors and supports the event and has been associated with the competition for the last seventeen years.  In 2011 there were six finalists for the Business Student of the Year Award.

2011 Trinity Business Student of the Year: Daniel Philbin Bowman

Daniel began his life in Trinity College as a BESS student and now preparing to complete a B.A. in Business and Political Science. Daniel has shown both an entrepreneurial and a civic spirit from an early age. Whilst in Transition Year, he founded and directed the “Be Not Afraid” charity wrist campaign in response to Pope John Paul II’s call to the youth of the world. In his time in College, he founded a marketing consultancy which boasts ‘Surf Seeds’, a recent Dragon’s Den winner among its clients. Daniel has been instrumental in the establishment of the Student Managed Fund and recently set up a website – telluswhy.ie – to offer a non-partisan and non-profit platform for the public to scrutinise election candidates. Daniel has maintained a solid first-class-honours academic record in College, including a competitive Erasums exchange in Uppsala Universitet in Sweden.

Previous Winners of the Trinity Business Student of the Year