Speakers

Paddy Holahan, General Manager of NewBay Software (a RIM subsidiary)
Maurice Roche, Chair of Irish Venture Capital Association and Partner at Delta Partners
Dr Keith O’Neill, Director of Lifescience and Food Commercialisation, Enterprise Ireland
Annalisa O’Carroll, Head of Social Impact at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland

Paddy Holahan - General Manager of NewBay Software (a RIM subsidiary)

Paddy founded NewBay in 2002 and the company has grown to become the leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators, with over 80 million LifeCache users. NewBay's customers include AT&T, T-Mobile, Telefonica/02, France Telecom/Orange, LG, Alltel and Telstra.

Prior to founding NewBay, Paddy was executive vice president of Marketing and Product Management at Baltimore Technologies. Having joined Baltimore Technologies in 1996, he was a key member of the executive management team that rapidly grew the company, organically and through acquisitions, to become a public company valued at over $10bn.

Previous to this, Paddy was co-founder and CEO of East Coast Software, a private software company specialising in PC utility software.

Paddy is an active angel investor and has been non-executive director and advisor to numerous technology companies. He has received a first-class honours degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and completed Leadership 4 Growth programme at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

In late 2011 NewBay was acquired by Research in Motion, makers of PlayBook & BlackBerry (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM).

Maurice Roche, Chair of Irish Venture Capital Association and Partner at Delta Partners

Maurice has a strong pedigree in corporate finance and equity investing working with Enterprise Equity and Simpson Xavier before joining Delta. Whilst at Delta, Maurice has been involved of numerous exits such as Xiam (sold to Qualcomm) and Pxit (sold to Agilent) and O'leary's (sold to Gehe). Currently he serves on a number of boards including Hullomail, Polarlake, Tango Telecom, textHELP and Zapa Technology and is the current Chair of Irish Venture Capital Association.

Dr Keith O’Neill, Director of Lifescience and Food Commercialisation, Enterprise Ireland

Keith joined Enterprise Ireland in February 2009 to deliver on the organisation's commitment to generate new companies and new technologies from research. He was previously heavily involved in research commericalisation having roles within working a US start-up and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He was also Manager of the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI), a medical devices research institute with a commercial focus, located at DCU.

Annalisa O’Carroll, Head of Social Impact at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland

In her role at Social Entrepreneurship in Ireland, Annalisa focuses on the creation and development of new and innovative solutions, to the myriad social and environmental challenges as part of the Social Impact Programme. She was previously was Director, Education Services EMEA at Salesforce.com and holds an MBA from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business.