Management
Joe Griffin
Chairman
Joe is an entrepreneur with 39 years experience in education, training and management at a senior level. As a founder of both Ashfield College (1977) and Ashfield Computer Training (1988), he developed them into market leading businesses at home and in the international market before successfully selling them in 2007.
Joe has tremendous experience in dealing with government agencies across the globe and at home, is a board member of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland where he is Chairman of it's Finance and Audit Committee.
Joe holds a BA, MA and HDE from UCD.
Tony Quinn
CEO
Tony has spent the last 15 years working for EMC Ireland. Tony was the first Sales employee of EMC Ireland and built the Company to a Market Leading position for Storage solutions in the Irish Market ending up in the position of Country Sales Manager.
Prior to EMC, Tony worked for Memorex Telex Ireland for 5 years initially selling Business Continuance solutions and then Enterprise Storage and Communications solutions.
Prior to Memorex Telex Tony worked for Irish Permanent Building Society for 5 years in the IT Department in various roles ending up as a Business Analyst for new applications integration and rollout.
Owen Connolly
CTO
Owen is a Risk Management and Security Professional with over 18 years in IT and Telecoms, working with both large multi-nationals and indigenous companies.
Owen joins us from Telefonica O2 Ireland, where he held the position of Principal Security Specialist with responsibility for all aspects of Technical Security as well as working as part of the Technical Security Steering Group for Europe.
Prior to that Owen was a Director of a boutique consultancy firm specializing in security and risk management in the financial services, telecoms and retail sector.
Owen regularly speaks on all areas of security and risk management and teaches courses for the SANS Institute (http://sans.org), where he is also a member of the Advisory Board.