Experience

13books Capital

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture Partner

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom



Multiple Companies

• 100 - 200 Employee

• Investor, Advisor & NED

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom



Sage

• Australia
• Media Production

• VP AutoEntry (Post Acquisition)

  • Oct 2019 - Dec 2020

  London, England, United Kingdom Having sold AutoEntry to Sage, I spent this time helping to successfully integrate AutoEntry into the Sage organisation while continuing to lead all functions of the AutoEntry business. The AutoEntry team had grown to 390 wonderful individuals around the globe by the time I handed over the reins.



AutoEntry

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & CEO

  • Aug 2011 - Oct 2019

  Dublin, Ireland I started by coding the first version at the kitchen table. I moved on to selling it, and later progressed to focus on building and leading an amazing team (270 at the time of acquisition) with whom I built and scaled the business globally. Having acquired over 5,500 accountancy firms as clients along with thousands of other direct SME’s, I then sold the business to Sage.



Citco Fund Services

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Report Development Manager

  • Dec 2007 - Aug 2011

  Dublin I was the lead developer and manager of a development team tasked with the development and maintenance of hundreds of fund accounting and investor relations financial reports for on-shore funds, off-shore funds and funds of funds.



MMI Group

• Singapore
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager

  • Jan 2005 - May 2007

  I took over the management of operations of a recently formed subsidiary company. This included building and managing the sales team, developing key accounts, product sourcing, supplier relationship management, forecasting, budgeting, etc. Once agreed goals had been achieved and systems and processes were set up, I recruited my replacement, handed over responsibility and I resigned to take a career break and go travelling around the world.



IMS Maxims

• Ireland
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • 2001 - 2005

  At IMS Maxims, I initially worked on web development projects followed by various clinical systems software development projects. Much of my work centred around the design and analysis for the migration of existing thick client applications to web based applications using multi-tiered architecture. I also worked on front-end development and product prototyping for the purposes of pre-sales demonstrations.