Meet the team

Our team brings together many years of experience over a diverse range of expertise.

Our team

Kevin McCarthy

CEO & Co-founder

Kevin holds a PhD from University College Dublin, and has over 10 years of industrial-focused research experience. He has produced more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and holds several patents. Kevin has been working on the commercialisation of AI-based technologies with global partners for a decade and has created, designed and overseen the development and deployment of a range of enterprise digital platforms.

John Phelan

Commercial Director & Co-founder

John has extensive experience in commercially growing businesses. He brings fresh views, a creative approach and no nonsense language to creating and developing real and practical business opportunities. John has started and managed companies in the USA, UK and Ireland. He is the All-Island Manager of Halo Business Angels Network (www.hban.org) which has invested over €150m in 650 companies since 2007.

Mick Kerrigan

CTO

Mick holds a PhD from the University of Innsbruck and a Masters from NUIG. Over the last 20 years he has moved from artificial intelligence and information retrieval, through Semantic Web technologies, and on to machine learning and Big Data Analytics. Mick has extensive experience in commercialising AI and related technologies, he was previously the Principal Data Scientist at both Amdocs and INM (Independent News and Media).

Ziggy Monkevicius

Head of Engineering

Stephen Burke

Data Science Master

Jaume Regas

Front-end Guru

Fiachra Lennon

Head of Design

Luis Goncalves

Senior Developer

Darren Coyle

Junior Developer

Aishwarya Pandey

Junior Developer

Subin Suthan

Junior Developer

John Noel O'Leary

Sales Development (UK)

Sam Jordan

Sales Development (IRL)

Rachael Rafter

Commercial Officer

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