Charles Garvey – Executive Chairman
As COO and later CEO, Charles played a key role in propelling Ireland’s top technology company Horizon from a staff of eight people to a group employing 720 people and floated on the Dublin and London stock exchanges. Charles established several start-up businesses for Horizon, and was also responsible for most of the acquisitions and disposals undertaken during his time there. Horizon was recently sold to Avnet Inc, a US-based international technology distributor.
Jim Morrison – CEO
Jim Morrison joined NitroSell in April of 2011 as VP of Services and Support and was appointed CEO by the board in March 2012. Jim has an extensive background with NitroSell’s products and markets including over 20 years experience in technology, nearly 10 years with Microsoft’s RMS, and he was one of the earliest adopters of the NitroSell platform in the US in 2006. He has sold and supported NitroSell eCommerce and Microsoft RMS, and has also operated a profitable NitroSell webstore selling computer and point-of-sale hardware.
Donogh Roche – CTO
Before joining NitroSell, Donogh was an Extreme Blue Intern and Software Engineer with IBM at their Dublin Software Lab, and was involved in a number of indigenous startups, including the company’s predecessors, NitroWeb and Amagineering Systems. He has been working on commercial web projects since 1998 and holds a First Class Honours degree in Computer Science from University College Cork (UCC).
Frank Walsh – Non-executive Director
Frank has over 15 years experience in Corporate Finance, including investment banking, equity research, venture capital, and joint venture development and has helped numerous technology companies raise both public and private capital. Frank also has extensive operational experience, having worked directly with a number of Irish start-ups to help them maximize their business potential as well as being a founding director of two companies, both of which operated successfully and were ultimately sold.
Founders
Tom Keane – Co-Founder, Past CEO & Former President
Tom is a UCC & Trinity software graduate, serial entrepreneur, networker & passionate evangelist of ICT technologies. Back in 2003 and with an Accenture, Motorola & HP background, he dreamed up NitroSell with Jerry Walsh as a global integrated eCommerce business and started working on sales, channel partner recruitment, marketing, PR and VC funding. NitroSell incorporated in 2005, and launched in the US & UK with Enterprise Ireland (EI) & investor backing and Tom as its first CEO. He continued to serve on the Exec Team as company President until 2010 and as a Board member until 2012 helping to bring the company to profitability. Tom remains a major shareholder and provides mCommerce, design and SEM services sales. He is also involved in synergic activities & related sectors in companies that build on NitroSell Technology, APIs and Integration Toolkits, plus world class Irish University based innovation, having been appointed to Enterprise Ireland’s prestigious Business Partners Panel 2013 – 2015.