The Endeavourees
Grainne Barron
Foxlightmedia.com
Grainne has been responsible for national and international development of the corporate and digital media business and management of the sales team at both Windmill Lane Ltd and Animo Ltd. 10 years experience in digital content production and digital strategy.
Foxlightmedia.com operates as an Internationalised Web Based service company providing digital development and online content. Foxlight is fast becoming a leading producer of engaging and branded live action audiovisual and animated corporate content. It builds and uses a range of platforms including digital, mobile, gaming, online, and out-of-home digital signage alongside the traditional platforms of television & radio. It develops and produces original content and commissioned branded content to enable brands to engage and connect with digital and mobile audiences in dynamic & interactive ways. Grainne has a BS in Business Management from Fordham University in New York and an Executive MBA from UCD.
Diarmuid Brennan
iKITSystems Ltd.
Diarmuid has over 20 years experience in the IT sector at a national and international level. iKITSystems Ltd. is a software development company with an emphasis on multimedia educational software for the International market. Their flagship software - iKITMovie (pronounced i-Kit-Movie) is computer animation software for PC windows currently downloadable at www.ikitmovie.com. It is ideal for making clay animation (e.g Wallace and Gromit), Brickfilms or any kind of stop motion animation. iKITMovie was designed to take the frustration out of animation. Everything required to make a movie, edit and publish it, is available within one piece of software. iKITMovie is suitable for all ages, both at home by hobby animators and in a school environment. iKITMovie promotes learning through interaction and experimentation. It can be used by all grade levels to incorporate concepts in a number of areas, including the visual arts, science and technology, music, drama and the media. iKITMovie puts the student in control of the animation rather than the program getting in the way of creativity and learning, by placing all of the tools needed in one application.
Paul Cooling
Blue Box Holdings
Paul is the CEO of Ubecha. Over the past ten years he has worked in the Supply Chain and Business Development within the FMCG sector. He also ran his own transport business during this period.
Ubecha is a revolutionary form of private online betting, which combines social media, one up-man-ship and having fun. No bookies. No odds. Just friends. Friends can choose to play for money or play for FREE! The Ubecha business model will provide people with platforms to bet in communities with friends and colleagues. Initially focusing on Soccer they will combine Social Media with Fantasy betting. Ultimately their aim is to scale the business model to encompass popular sports from in new markets in Europe, America and Asia. Another key development for Ubecha will be enriched media content for their user base.
John Dineen
learnpipe.com
John is a serial entrepreneur and training sector veteran. He founded learnpipe.com in 2008 with the aim of creating the World's largest training search engine. "If you're looking for training on any subject, search on learnpipe. We're the Kayak.com of training".
learnpipe crawls the training market so that they have a deep understanding of what's available from the Global Providers to the one-man bands. They love them all! But they are very different from most training sites because they don't actually sell training courses, courseware or anything else. They help people find the best training choices easily by searching the data from thousands of training sites. learnpipe lets you compare options - see what's available and when you find what you were looking for, you book / buy it directly with the person / company that is offering the product / service. To training providers, learnpipe is an inbound marketing platform that generates highly targeted leads. To buyers, learnpipe makes it really easy to see the full range of training options.
Stephen Griffin
Reversible Door Hanging System
Stephen is the Managing Director of Westwood Fiontar Limited and importing and distribution of timber products.
Stephen has invented and patented a unique system with a leading edge on just a basic product by developing a reversible door hanging system.
In order to accommodate the requirement for both right-hand and left-hand openings, it has been necessary to supply pre-hung door assemblies in both configurations, enabling an installer to select the appropriate assembly for a particular installation. The necessity to make available pre-hung door assemblies in both hands essentially doubles the number of assemblies which must be made available by the manufacturer and by the distributor and retailer, requiring larger inventories and the concomitant dedication of greater amounts of space, both for storage and on the selling floor.
David Harvey
Emissions Control Systems Ltd.
David has been an architect for over 30 years and decided to explore his inventor skills in more recent times. Hydrogen Emissions Control Systems is a renewable energy based company.
He has designed a patent pending device that generates hydrogen on demand. This device uses clean rainwater and is suitable for all internal combustion engines. Emission Control Systems provides a solution for a reduction and eventual elimination of carbon emissions for commercial and domestic energy requirements. It offers a solution towards a new from of renewable and sustainable energy for Ireland and the worldwide economy.
Donncha Haverty
HKPB Scientific Ltd.
Donncha is a serial innovator, inventor and entrepreneur. He has been named inventor on 5 patents, research fellow at Curtin University,Australia, Senior Research Fellow at Aughinish and University of Limerick. He is founder of Enbio Materials and more recently CEO of HKPB Scientific Ltd. The business operates in the areas of advanced manufacturing and commercialised research.
HKPB Scientific was founded in 2008 to service identified technology gaps within the medical device industry. Market niches totalling more than €4 billion are directly accessible to HKPB technologies. The company has two technologies at an advanced stage of international protection Hydroxyapatite, a speciality biomaterial and TM-CMC (Thermally Moderated-Collision Mediated Coating).
Warren Healy
Locallotto.ie
Warren is Managing Director of Locallotto.ie. Over the last 10 years he has been self employed and working primarily in the Internet, sales and general management consultant. Throughout this time he has been involved in all aspects of starting up and running a business in addition to the general management of larger existing businesses.
Locallotto has developed software as a service product that allows clubs and societies to web enable the sales and management of their existing or new government licensed fundraising lotto. The Locallotto.ie system will automate the collection, management and reporting of all revenue collection channels for clubs and groups. It will also provide additional fund raising initiatives to clients.
Keith Loughnane
SocialTrainer
Keith is an experience software engineer and has worked with embedded devices and has developed an iPhone game, "gravitation". FitNexus operates in the Software as a Service sector.
FitNexus is an iPhone application which aims to replace and surpass the pedometer and stopwatch. It lets users constantly, simply and invisibly monitors your teams or clients exercise and fitness, view that information in a useful way and share it with friends or professionals.
The company aims to produce the FitNexus Software to run on Apple's iPhone as well as the services and faculties surrounding it, to: measure fitness, exercise/activity intensity etc; give useful feedback to the user; allow that user to share that information in a useful way; connect users with health & fitness professionals in a mutually beneficial way and enable users to receive support from the community.
David McAvinue
Tender3D.com
David has worked in the successful Cork based business Pixel Lab and is now a director of Tender3D.com.
Tender3D is to be a dedicated 3D market space in which purchasers of 3D modelling and animation services will place their requirements online, for suppliers to bid on them. The purpose of the application is to find the best potential suppliers for each individual project -around the world- and to take the risk out of project management and financing. The key purpose of the software is to find the right person for a specific 3D project. The software will then also manage the flow of information, data and funds within the job once the job has actually been commissioned.
Tender3D is set to fundamentally change how 3D modelling and animation can be sourced both locally and internationally, and how the service is managed once a job is commissioned.
John McGuire
imeeGOLF.com
John worked as a software engineer and database developer for Nortel Networks for nine years and as a Business Coach with Computer Science Corporation for three years. He then co-founded Active Mind partnership in 2003 and set up his own company Active Mind Technology in 2008.
Active Mind Technology Ltd., trading as imeeGOLF (Improvement Made Even Easier), was setup in order to develop market and sell innovative, performance-enhancing sports technology. The systems are developed in the Software as a Service model.
Their first product "imeeGOLF" is an integrated golf improvement system that combines the data recorded by the 'imee' golf data recorder with an array of tools to help the golfer reach his/her goals and play consistently. The 'imee' golf data recorder is a pioneering new piece of 'smart' equipment that allows golf data to be recorded on a device worn by the golfer without interaction by the golfer and after the round of golf merged with an intelligent online system which is imeeGOLF.com
Today imeeGOLF.com's coaching system is being used in the UK with the US and China to follow.
Philip McNamara
TapMap.com
Philip has worked for start-up internet companies in Silicon Valley, Portland Oregon, and in Ireland and has successfully run his own company, Inspire Nation for the past five years. Philip is also a 3x Irish cycling team member.
TapMap.com is lead generation system for stores. The web based store system is an online/mobile phone application that makes it extremely easy and cost effective for retailers and consumers to communicate about prices in store. The TapMap system addresses the consumers' need for up to date stock and price information when shopping locally, and helps retailers to communicate deals and product availability easily. Retailers just need to register online and list the brands and products they stock using TapMap's proprietary eStock system. The TapMap system alerts retailers when a consumer is searching for a product they stock and allows them to contact that consumer in a fast and easy manner. TapMap will start rolling out to retailers early in 2010.
Connor Murphy
DataHug.com
Connor Murphy is CEO and co-founder of DataHug.com. He founded the company in 2009 after spending six years with PA Consulting Group in DC, NY and London. While with PA he managed and delivered assignments for a broad range of Fortune 500 companies, venture start-ups and government organisations. Prior to PA he worked with Sun Microsystems and between 2001 and 2003 he was co-founder and CEO of J1Summer.com.
DataHug provides relationship intelligence for large global consulting firms. By building a rich picture of 'who knows who' and 'how well they know them' our clients can increase sales, improve account management and simplify communications. The solution is built on a Web 2.0 platform (SaaS) and utilises data mining and graphing algorithms.
DataHug helps companies connect the dots. Equally, by automating several aspects of tracking relationships we reduce the pain and cost of manual intervention and increase the ROI on CRM investments.
Declan O'Sullivan
Bet-Tec
Declan has worked as a professional engineer, project manager and product manager for a number of years and has worked in the betting industry for the last 6 years building up an in-depth knowledge of the betting and internet technologies and is co-founder of BetP2P ltd.
Bet-Tec offers a suite of services which deliver new & entertaining betting experiences to sports betters. These services will be deployed in partnership with leading industry players in order to enable them to better engage with customers and improve retention rates and to differentiate themselves from other me-too betting operators.
The services offered include: alerting services to enable users to track their fancied horses (horse-alert) and monitor runners from a favourite training stable (stable-alert), various SMS information services (tip-alert, result-alert), a fantasy football pools betting game (totelfootball), an SMS interface on bookmaker sports books (SMSBet), and a horse racing forum and tipster networking site.
Michael Sheehy
Gaelforce Wind Energy Ltd.
Michael has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Limerick and has academic and industrial experience both at home and abroad spanning across several technical sectors from energy to aerospace. Academically, he has secured over €100,000 in scholarship and project funding, and has carried out research with the Tyndall Institute, Cork; MIT, Boston, US; and Bell Laboratories, NJ, US. Industrially he has gained experience with manufacturing companies worldwide such as Dairymaster, Kerry; Vistakon, Limerick and Molex Inc., Chicago, US. Michael is currently performing operations management for Pallas Wind Farm in Kerry, a privately developed 40 MW wind farm.
Gael Force is a renewable energy consultancy company providing operations management service primarily for wind energy generating stations. It offers monthly, quarterly and annual reports designed for wind farm owners, lenders and investors concentrating on key aspects for each period. This hierarchical model will not only identify current performance issues but can also offer a preventative maintenance by identifying performance trends which will ultimately optimise the revenue from the wind farm. Gael Force works in unison with wind farm owners and turbine manufacturers to provide optimum performance and availability for the wind farm. By analysing wind farm monitoring data, key financial and technical summaries are developed to facilitate risk assessment for lenders, preventative maintenance for turbine manufacturers, and optimum revenue for wind farm owners.