Originally from Sligo, but now based in Galway, Luna Connect CEO Brian D’Arcy took the road less travelled a number of years ago when he left his job as a Hewlett-Packard software executive to found his own start-up. Five years later, the business is going from strength to strength, and they have big plans for …
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Niall Fennell is a PorterShed member who works for Skedda, the system many of us in the tech world use to book our meeting rooms. Originally from Baldoyle in Dublin, he now calls Galway’s West End his home and has enjoyed a varied career in a whole host of different industries. With a degree in …
Aisling Kearney Burke is an entrepreneurial woman, through and through. Many people around Galway will know her as the creator and face of the very popular Paint Club, a successful start-up she founded in 2015. But she’s also the brains behind Mea Manu, a productivity-boosting, tech-assisted creativity tool that she’s been working on for some …
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Cormac Casey is a business founder and a mountain climber – and he has his sights set on a few highs in the not-too-distant future. The connection between Cormac the entrepreneur and Cormac the mountaineer who has targeted reaching the top of the Seven Summits before he turns 34 (a record previously set by Dr. …
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Recently, we’ve had quite a few four-day workweeks as the country has moved from one bank holiday to the next. Between March and the beginning of May, we had as many as four, and with another on the horizon this weekend, we’re asking if the four-day workweek can work for most? In Ireland, the number …
“That’s where it all started. It was the first device I had that got me into computers, tech, coding, and that whole world”, Eamonn Carey, co-author of The Startup Lexicon, says. He’s talking about the retro Sinclair Spectrum computer which kickstarted his passion for technology – and it still holds pride of place in Eamonn’s …
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Barry Gilhooly is a Senior Architectural Technologist with Malone Architecture, and he is a long-time PorterShed member who is passionate about architecture, different approaches to construction, and building designs’ impact on society and the world in which they live. A talented technical worker, he focuses a lot on the detail of bespoke build projects, working …
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Yvonne Comer is the CEO and co-founder of RugbySmarts, a start-up that delivers game-changing technology through automated, real-time video analytics that harnesses artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision. Together with co-founder and CTO William Johnstone, Yvonne is aiming to make it easier for teams to get the data they need to help push performance …
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Maciej Dabrowski, Chief Data Scientist, Digital and AI at Genesys, took time to sit down with the PorterShed blog recently. Maciej has been with Genesys for four-and-a-half years. Before that, he was with Altocloud for four years. So, it’s safe to say that Maciej is a fount of knowledge in his field, and he took …
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Rory Timlin is from Galway and works in the PorterShed. Like his Bowling Green peers, Rory hasn’t always done things the way most other people do. In fact, for a period of around eight years, he became a professional online poker player before ultimately going on to become a business analyst and financial controller. This …