Professional Profile

Elaine McBride, Assistant Marketing Manager

Elaine's role involves developing and implementing marketing strategies for a wide range of businesses from the professional services sector to the private healthcare sector across Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Elaine graduated from Queens University, Belfast in 2000 with a BSc (Hons) in Management and Spanish. She then qualified as an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (ACIM) in August 2005.

email: emcbride@harbinson-mulholland.com or phone: 028 9044 5100

Personal profile

1) Sum yourself up in three words? - Talkative, outgoing & stubborn

2) Most commonly used word? - 'ye know' at the end of every sentence. (Sometimes, they just don't know!!)

3) What are your past times? - Reading, dancing, socialising and football tennis

4) Where is your favourite place to dine? - My mum's kitchen back home in Fermanagh

5) What is your idea of heaven? - A big bowl of my mum's homemade vegetable soup, thick with barley and a few spuds, sitting in my jammies in front of a big open fire at home on a cold winter's evening! Nothing like it!

6) If you could choose to be any person for a day who would it be and why? - George W Bush so I could resign as president. 

7) If you were stuck on a desert island, what three things would you need to have with you? - My three things would be three people. Gordon Ramsey (to slaughter the animals, cook them and ensure I didn't go hungry), Bruce Willis (to protect me against all dangers of the island) and Peter Kay (to keep me entertained)

8) What makes you most scared? - Clegs - The Irish equivalent to mosquitos

9) What is your philosophy in life? - You might as well enjoy yourself because you don't know how long you're here for

10) If you could re-live any moment in your life to date, what would it be? - A Sunday  night in the Abbey hotel in Donegal town - those were the days!!