Mary Mckenna, Mbe Email & Phone Number

County Donegal, Ireland

Brussels, BE

I work on a number of EIC programmes such as Horizon Europe & other EU innovation themes as an evaluator and jury member. The juries assess applications for significant sums of innovation funding and conduct interviews with the applicants. My specialisms are medtech, edtech, pharma, ICT and advanced computing.

Dublin, IE

AwakenAngels is Ireland's first and only women-led angel syndicate. I am one of 5 co-founders along with Clare McGee, Denise McQuaid, Sinead Crowley and Mary Ann Pierce. Talk to any of us if you are interested in joining the syndicate as an investor or raising investment as a woman founder based in Ireland.

West Of Ireland, IE

Galway, Galway, IE

Dublin, Dublin, IE

AwakenHub is a fast growing social enterprise started in 2020. We provide a community plus acceleration, growth and advisory services to women founders based in Ireland. If you're interested in getting involved in any capacity or would like to discuss sponsorship with us then please get in touch.

Austin, TX, US

Looking forward to being in Austin, Texas in person for SXSW 2025 - see you there!

Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

London, England, GB

IVMS is an advisory service for any student or staff member showing a clear entrepreneurial intent and wishing to realise their entrepreneurial idea via the development of a startup company. IVMS uses team-based mentoring where two to three mentors work with a startup for an open-ended period. Team mentoring offers a unique opportunity to advise the leader.

The Jetpack Learning team are experts in the design and development of educational games. Their tools enable publishers and educators to create fun learning games, cost-effectively, efficiently and at scale.

Reading, Reading, GB

Our family of Digital Place products are designed to grow your digital ecosystem and bring your ideas to life quickly and cost effectively. You can make quick progress with over 50 pre-built local services and e-forms, and add new services as you're ready. Now it’s easy to bring all of your services and information together in one place, with a consistent.

London, England, GB

At Mind Of My Own we make tech for good products with an emphasis on getting the voice of service users heard and acted upon. The One app works for young people who use children's social care services and the Express app is for younger children and those with learning disabilities or additional special needs. Our products are available to an international.

Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland, GB

London, GB

Belfast, Northern Ireland, GB

London, GB

London, GB

Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

One of Oxford Foundry's Resident Experts on the OXFO Elevate Accelerator. Loving engaging with and mentoring the ventures and giving them the best opportunity to succeed. Delighted to be part of the talented Foundry extended team!

London, England, GB

Derry, Derry, GB

Elemental Software became part of the Access Group following an acquisition by Servelec in August 2021. It gave me great satisfaction to continue supporting economic growth in the North West of Ireland by backing another local technology company that was founded by two talented women, Jennifer Neff and Leeann Monk.

I was Lead Entrepreneur for the DFA funded Back for Business programme and as part of that I ran a monthly entrepreneur round table with entrepreneurs who have recently returned to Ireland and started a business.

London, London, GB

London, GB

Totnes, England, GB

Edinburgh, GB

I was part of an external expert panel advising Scottish Government on their latest Digital Health and Care strategy that was published in April 2018. This piece of work was pro bono. It was great to work with a global team and such motivated government colleagues.

London, GB

Derry, UK, IE

Most fun I've ever had at work... until I co-founded AwakenHub!

A challenging but enjoyable 12 month turnaround project for the IDeA e-government directorate.

Happy to have been a dot-commer - what a great learning curve Amphion provided - nice people - miss you all!

Was reponsible for all corporate services at IPF Ltd, CIPFA's commercial subsidiary. Joined as the tenth person in the team, left when the company employed over 150 people - good times!