PhD in Physics and worked as software developer and business analyst in Davy stockbrokers and Daiwa Securities in Tokyo. Founder of a three tech start ups two of which raised 7 figure venture capital rounds. One of these Alatto traded for 9 years. More recently consultant to Vodafone Ireland and since 2008 have been Technology Transfer Case Manager at Trinity College, Dublin responsible for commercialisation of ICT research. While in Trinity I have set up and ran Trinity College’s start-up accelerator LaunchBox, and became Executive Director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Trinity College, Dublin . I also designed and secured European funding to implement Trinity’s Connected Health accelerator “Validator” and a Europe-wide Tech Transfer training programme. Adjunct Lecturer in NUI Galway where I taught the Innovation and Technology Transfer module as part of Masters in Technology management. Most recently a spart of my role in Trinity I have set up and manage Trinity’s Open Source Programme Office. The mission of the office is to promote and support the principles of open source, and open data in knowledge transfer and industry engagement for TCD researchers.

Personal Motto : “Done is better than Perfect”