Kainos CEO Brendan Mooney receives honorary degree from QUB

Brendan Mooney was given an honorary degree for services to Business and Commerce by Queens University this week. He attended the graduation ceremony for the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to pick up this award, and is pictured here with Kainos Graduate Software Engineers Toireasa Moley, John O'Neill, Kelly Moore and Grace Geary. Speaking ahead of receiving his honorary degree, he said: 'I am delighted to be receiving this honour from Queen's today. As a university with a global presence it still remains close to its roots, engaging with local communities, businesses and students. Graduating with the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is particularly special, seeing the next generation of digital talent graduate and start out on their careers it is a particularly exciting time to be in technology.'