Mr Moroney has been chief executive of Roomex, a travel management platform, since September 2019. He will take up his role with The Irish Times on December 1st.
Staff at the group were informed of the appointment on Wednesday.
Mr Moroney has experience as a CEO and as an entrepreneur, having spent his career in the international technology industry.
He founded and led two Irish-based software businesses, Clavis Insight and Similarity Systems, guiding them from start-up through to sales to international companies.
Earlier in his career, he worked as a management consultant with professional services group McKinsey. He holds an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a degree in Engineering from University College Cork (UCC).
He’ll take over at the Irish Times from Michael Sheehan, the group’s chief financial officer (CFO) who has been interim MD since mid September when Deirdre Veldon stepped down from the post to pursue other opportunities. She had been in the role since late 2022.
Mr Sheehan will revert to the CFO role in January.
In other news in Irish media, the Connacht Tribune is set to announce that it has been bought by Malcolm Denmark’s Iconic Media Group, which is one of the biggest regional newspaper publishers in the State.
Approval of the takeover by Government is in place and the official announcement is to come in the next few days, a spokesperson for the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan, said.
“The Minister approved the acquisition of the Connacht Tribune by Formpress on 14 November. A notice of the determination will be published on the Department’s website in the coming days.”
All media mergers must go through an enhanced regulatory procedure including evaluation by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) and sign off by the minister.
The Tribune was first published in May 1909. Two decades later the group produced the Sentinel, which finished publication in 2014, and the Galway City Tribune was added by the group in 1984.
Mr Denmark in May this year discussed his interest in acquiring the Connacht Tribune, he said: “The team in Galway is a particularly good one. They are the largest selling of the weekly regional papers now in the country and that is down to producing a very, very good paper every week.”