Paula Fennelly has been appointed senior executive at Accenture’s Government Operating Group, responsible for the company’s immigration and policing work in Ireland. She will also have responsibility for Accenture’s ‘Accent on Women’, an initiative to retain and promote women within the workplace. She joined the company in 1995 and was promoted to manager in March 2000 and to senior manager in September 2002. Fennelly has a degree in electronic engineering from DCU. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.