John Coolican Email & Phone Number

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

ICVH is an independent consultancy which works with founders and owners of small to medium-sized businesses to help them realise and maximise their capital value.

Dublin

Formulating and leading the strategic plan for and generating the funding and acceleration of (A) the acquisitions and (B) organic growth of Xtremepush push into new international markets to maximise return on investment. Leads the hunt for new emerging and complimentary tech to form partnerships or for acquisition.

Ireland

John led the team which established the links between the external EcoSystem to the Innovation activities in the Accenture Centre for Innovation at The Dock in Dublin. This focused on finding, filtering the best candidates in an area and negotiating collaboration opportunities across the landscape of startups, research centres & corporate alliance partners to enhance the creation of Accenture and co-created client IP in Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, Robotics, Blockchain, Analytics, IoT and Cyber Security.

Dublin, Ireland

Founding Director for Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab (Dublin): Finding emerging tech companies & help shaping new Financial Services tech ideas, initially to worry, and later to collaborate with large slower moving incumbent local & international banks, Insurance Companies and payment companies. The FinTech Innovation Lab Dublin: a program that accelerates disruptive technology adoption in Financial Services by bringing the best of emerging tech in-house to senior stakeholders in the form of proof-of-concept and pilot programs most relevant to the challenges of the financial services industry. The program is supported by leading local and international banks & technology and financial services firms. (www.fintechinnovationlab.com).Open to entrepreneurs who are developing cutting-edge technologies for the financial services sector, the FinTech Innovation Lab Dublin offers early-stage companies the opportunity to develop their product or proposition and gain exposure to senior executives from leading players in the financial services industry, including Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, Citi, Credit Suisse, FEXCO, Google, State Street, Global Payments Payments and RBS / Ulster Bank. The program culminates in Investor Day pitches from the entrepreneurs in Dublin and London to an audience of venture capitalists and financial industry senior executives.

Dublin

Mazars Corporate Finance: Group lead in valuations and fundraising for emerging tech companies & capital projects, Mergers and Acquisitions; Share and Business Valuations;; Management Buy-Out.Lead author on published annual report reviewing all Mergers & Acquisition activity across all sectors in Ireland.

Dublin, Ireland

Independent Stockbroking & Corporate Finance firm. Head of Technology Equity Research Function. Valuation and Analysis of technology-focused publicly listed companies, their public and private competitors and the evolving markets they served. Voted No. 1 Technology Equity Analyst by independent UK&I Fund Managers. Production and presentation of detail technology and financial justifications for Buy/Sell recommendation reports to a wide Ire & UK and European fund manager client base. Corporate Finance: Managing fundraisings for high growth technology companies. Trade sale of media and technology companies. Search mandates for acquisition by overseas acquirers looking to acquire high-growth private companies in Ireland.

Palo Alto, California

KPMG Consulting: Head of US Western Region KPMG Consulting (BearingPoint) Enterprise Resource Planning software & Ariba Implementation. Drove new business development and responsible for quality of delivery for all projects in Western USA. Identification and partnership formation with new and emerging, Silicon Valley based, high growth enterprise software companies. Negotiating and establishment of new practice areas and roll-out of KPMG service units based on these new-established emerging tech alliances.

Dublin, Ireland

Led formation of Baan (Enterprise Software) implementation team. Project management, configuration and customisation of IBM midrange and client server-based business systems, and integration with existing client systems for supply chain optimisation and cost reduction.

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