Gwen Banphrionsa of the Tribe of Cavan

**Gwen Banphrionsa of the Tribe of Cavan** is a businesswoman and CEO of Gabha Blacksmiths Limited and Mother of three children, as well as a part of the large Banphrionsa-Family.

## Biography

### Before being CEO

Gwen was born in 1972 as the child of the then-CEO Aonghus Banphrionsa of the Tribe of Cavan, vintage 1950, and his second wife Fiona, vintage 1953. She was his third child and her first, with two more to follow. Her siblings are:

* Neil, vintage 1969, from her father's first wife, nowadays an artist.
* Connor Pastesurí of the Tribe of Fermanagh, vintage 1969, half-brother, from a one-night-affair of her father.
* Áed, vintage 1974, engineer for Gabha Blacksmiths Limited.
* Siana, vintage 1976, housewife.

As thus, Gwen is the granddaughter of the Family Matriarch Lilianne Banphrionsa of the Tribe of Cavan, vintage 1926.

She started her educational career in 1978 at the Traverse General Elementary School and made the entrance exam for the Iris Boarding School Complex in 1982, beginning Middle School in 1983 - that was very much to the liking of her parents as Lutetiian troops invaded Mount Vellenge and started the Second Vellenge War in the same year. Traverse and the factories of Gabha Blacksmiths, they knew, would be primary targets. Luckily, nothing of that king happened and Gwen graduated in 1992 as second best of her class.

During her time at the Iris, she also got to meet another daughter from a well-off family, future CEO of her business partner Silverport Dockyards Limited, Nora Cathlong of the Tribe of Cork. The two, although a year apart, became quick friends.

During her school time, she also got to know a farmer's son from near the Iris, Finn, and fell in love. Fortunately and unfortunately, he knocked her up in 1986, her aged 14, and their first daughter Fiona was born in 1987. The two married shortly after her birth, Gwen pausing her school time for a year to focus on raising her daughter. Shortly after her graduation in 1992, she gave birth to her second child, Tyran, which delayed the beginning of her studies.

In 1994, for the Spring Trimester, she began her studies at the University of Leuda, studying economics. By that time, Fiona was already at the Iris Boarding School Complex and Gwen lived in Ailla House near Leuda with Tyran and, from his birth in 1997, Glynn. She made her Bachelor's Degree in 1998 and her Master's in 2001, joining Gabha Blacksmiths Limited in the same year.

For the next nine years, she worked herself up in the company hierarchy with little to no support of her Father - not that she wanted any - and much support from her family.

### CEO of Gabha Blacksmiths Limited

In 2010, her father retired aged 70 Springs and Gwen, then aged 48 Springs, became the new CEO. In its fact, it was a tremendous change, but in reality, not much changed.

In 2042, aged 70 and much like her father, Gwen retired in favour of her son Tyran Banphrionsa of the Tribe of Westmeath, then 50 years of age.

## Personal Relations

### Family

Gwen is mother to three children, Fiona, Tyran and Glynn, all three from her husband Finn.

### Nora Cathlong of the Tribe of Cork

Nora and Gwen are close friends and business partners,