Exoshock is changing how mission-critical decisions are made. We assess the impact of global risks for organisations - giving them the gift of foresight, saving time and money. Exoshock will commercialise the IPR for the Deep Tech decision intelligence and data modelling software produced by the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK.The platform enables the time-bound simulation of potential supply chain shocks and disruptions with a quantifiable measure of the repercussions upon their business. Our ability to combine qualitative and quantitative ‘cause & effect’ relationships over different timeframes will enable client companies to define and pick the best operational scenarios to implement.Thanks to Exoshock’s underlying System Dynamics model of macroeconomic levers and specific Supply Chain constraints, our clients will be able to prioritise and roll out the most impactful Risk and Resilience mitigation strategies.

Based in Austin, Texas, the ESW Capital group specifically focuses on buying, strengthening, and then growing mature business software companies. By taking advantage of its unique operating platform, ESW revitalizes its acquisitions for sustainable success while making customer satisfaction a top priority. ESW and its affiliated companies have been in the enterprise software space since 1988, and the group includes notable brands such as Think3, Aurea, Ignite Technologies, Trilogy, Skyvera and Versata.What makes us unique in this space? We transform our companies into remote working entities, working in an asynchronous fashion, leveraging playbooks and a culture built over the last 10 years.As COO, my responsibility is the relentless pursuit of simplicity over complexity with the primary goal of rapid scaling. Build the operating model, apply the operating model, simplify the operating model, repeat.

Automating the repetitive tasks that people do at work is now the fastest and most significant opportunity businesses have to improve staff retention and increase productivity.

Morgan McKinley is a multinational recruitment company. The company has grown both organically and through acquisition over the past 30 years. Employing 1,000 people across 10 countries, it is a market leader in many of the geographies in which it operates.As a member of the Executive Management team, I have a central and strategic role in the overall management of the company. I hold primary day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing and managing Morgan McKinley’s global digital change agenda at the point where the business meets the customer.Leading the digital transformation of this mature, global company includes: the development of new channels and digital experiences for clients, candidates and recruitment consultants to increase revenue with an off-shore design and development team; the adoption of digital marketing techniques for recruitment; the integration of data science and modern data platforms to become a data-driven company; the updating of privacy and security policies in preparation for GDPR; the establishment of a PMO, and an agile Research, Development and Innovation department; and supporting process improvements for operational efficiency.Morgan McKinley was recently ranked in the Top 10 of Ireland’s “Great Places to Work” and is one of Deloitte’s “Best Managed” companies in Ireland.

Now acquired, Sumerian.com was a leading SaaS cloud vendor of strategic IT Capacity Planning as a Service (CPaaS), with particular success in the Financial Services sector. The capacity management market is worth $750m with 60% CAGR.In February 2016, Sumerian was independently ranked no. 1 in our segment by analysts for Vision & Go to market, Innovation & Partner Ecosystem, Differentiation & USP, Customer Satisfaction & Mindshare, Price versus Value.I was responsible for the commercial turnaround strategy and development of the company, with accountability for marketing, sales and business development.

I returned as a consultant to EMC's telco business. Focussed on identifying strategic new joint ventures with Vodafone, especially in the IoT and ToC spaces, to raise the profile of EMC as a strategic partner for innovation.

Now sold, Basho was a fast-growing software company, competing with Industry dominating incumbents like Oracle and Microsoft, and marketing a largely opensource database suited to critical apps especially in Healthcare, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Gaming.

I specialised in turnaround or get-well plans for certain global accounts. The company gave me the opportunity to lead avant garde, enterprise deployments of Private Cloud and Big Data projects in the real world with some of our largest, most interesting clients in the Financial Services, Technology, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment sectors.