Business
Business management and leadership experience spanning more than 25 years, in everything from start-ups to global companies
Chief Operations Officer
Polecat MeaningMine, Dublin, 2012
Lead the creation of the customer relationship management process and built a cohesive team environment within the Dublin office.
Interim CEO
Intrade, 2011-2012
Appointed as Intrade's interim CEO during a turbulent period in the financial and political prediction market's history.
Chief Operations Officer
Trezur, 2008-2011
Trezur was a music software startup that commercialised real-time music manipulation software developed at Dublin Institute of Technology. While COO, I also acted as CFO and developed the company's e-commerce web app (which also provided API services to the music software app).
Chief Operations Officer
Trade Exchange Network, 2006-2008
Trade Exchange Network provided online prediction markets under a number of brands, and as white label service provider to a number of major international customers As COO, I was responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the management team.
Start-up Support / Consulting
Worked with a small number of start-ups, assisting with fund-raising, business plan development and financial modelling, technology selection and implementation, performance management planning, pricing, production management, etc.
Financial Controller
Canon Ireland, 2001-2004
Responsible for the financial stewardship and reporting for Canon in Ireland and Northern Ireland, and provided substantial business advisory support to the various teams in the business including sales incentive scheme planning, marketing, pricing and business process re-engineering.
Group Director of Finance & Operations
All Ireland Group, 1997-2001
The Group was an importer-distributor of consumer electrical and housework products. I was responsible for managing finance, customer service, ICT, logistics, HR and general operations. I enabled significant compound growth for the business.
Financial Controller
Bank of Bermuda's Irish operations, 1995-1997
BoB's Irish operations focused on investment fund management and trustee services. I was responsible for the financial reporting and control functions, and the day-to-day ICT support and implementation for the Dublin office.
Assistant Manager, Financial Accounting
Irish Permanent plc, 1993-1995
Drove the significant modernisation of the financial accounting department's processes.
Contract Accountant
GE Capital Dublin, 1993
Worked on the production of statutory financial statements and corporation tax returns.
Contract Accountant
Smurfit Finance, 1992-1993
Produced the monthly management reporting back and reduced its production time by > 80%.
Trainee Chartered Accountant
Ernst & Young Dublin, 1988-1992
Worked on a mix of statutory audits and special assignments for a range of clients.
