Meet the Team
Mark O'Donovan B.Eng., MBA
Managing Partner
Mark is an Entrepreneur who helps build businesses, scale sales, create shareholder value and is experienced in M&A & IPOs. Co-Founder & Director of Duolog Technologies. Sold to FTSE & NASDAQ Listed ARM Holdings. Director & Co-Founder of Green Energy Company Celtic BioEnergy. ( www.CelticBioEnergy.com ) Director of Financial Data Analytics company CORLYTICS, ( www.Corlytics.com ) Involved in M&A, and raised over €320m for Irish technology companies. Board member of AIB Seed Capital Fund, ( http://www.aibseedcapitalfund.ie ) .
Bryan Maguire BE (Mech), FCA
Financial Partner
Bryan is a highly experienced Chartered Accountant and qualified Engineer. He has been the Managing Director of a substantial Irish Private Family Investment Company and Group Financial Director of a successful Handheld Computer company taking it from start-up through to Nasdaq listing. He has later worked for many years with SME’s in an outsourced CFO role working with and advising them from startup through to later stages of highly successful development. Companies Bryan has worked with include Applied Process Company; Log Entries; Nuritas and Equinome.
Mike Kane
Mike increases sales and awareness for our Irish companies by introducing them to customers, partners, industry analysts, and journalists. He has a background of more than 20 years in sales, marketing and business development roles for leading technology companies such as Chartis, ClusterSeven, Iontas, NEC, QUMAS, Wolters Kluwer, and Tseng Labs. Mike is based in Boston, MA (USA).
Kieran Sheehan
Kieran is a leader in practical & academic sales prospecting. Set up Partners in Europe with 3 other founders where they represented US companies in selling their products in Europe and achieved annual sales in excess of $70 million. As a result they offered those clients a turnkey solution where they handled all of their Logistics, Technical Support and Back Office requirements. Brought major US, Chinese, Canadian and Australian companies to Europe. Represented over 100 companies during this period with many of them bought out by Blue Chip companies as a result of our European sales success.
James Twomey
James is a Design Engineer. James has many patents to his name and his designs account for shipments of over 6 million devices annually.
David Varian
David is an experienced accountant who is available to companies to cover finance functions as a Financial Controller on an as need basis.
Richard Pigott
Richard Pigott is an advisor on HR, "Finding the right People for your business is a fundamental key to your success". Richard brings a wealth experience in international HR, and hold a BSc and an Msc in Applied Psychology, MBA TCD."
Annmarie Johnson
Partner
Annmarie set up her own practice and successful business. She brings with her a wealth of operational experience, enthusiasm, skills, capabilities and practical knowledge. She also founded, invested, and directed a start up technology company. Assisting in operational functions, HR, Recruiting, Office set up, Payroll, Finance, building a team of 30 people mostly engineers, along with the general organisation. She has a strong interest in environmental issues, and technologies that aid and address our climate change and environment.
Emer O'Donovan
Digital Marketing & Business Development
Emer attained a first class Honors in Digital Marketing from Smurfit Business School. She is currently advising and consulting on projects in the areas of e-learning and environmental. Emer has international experience from working in the Austin, Texas Tech Hub, as a website manager and marketing associate.
Legal Services
Airfield have Advisors for Legal Services:- Entrepreneurs , Businesses and Companies can benefit significantly by having the right legal advice at the right time in areas such as:- Shareholder Agreements, IP, Employee contracts, Customer and Channel partner contracts.