Orcawise™ is in collaboration with a wide domain of strategic stakeholders including private fund investors, EU research funds, scientific research institutes, strategic hr partners, recruitment service providers and complimentary online communities!

Management

Kevin Neary, CEO

Kevin is a Dublin based entrepreneur focussed on hr, software services and more recently intelligent systems.

Previously he has managed and delivered multi-million euro recruitment services projects to leading organisations in the telecoms, financial services and manufacturing sectors in Ireland and the UK.

Kevin Neary holds an Honors Degree in Marketing from University of Glamorgan, UK, a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Development from DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology) and Diploma in Executive Coaching from Coach Institute of Ireland.

Kevin was previously founder and MD of telecoms staffing and outsourcing firm Softskills, General Manager with the ICDS Group and Senior Account Manager with the Unisys Systems & Business Consultancy, DPP Holdings (UK) where he specialized in the Commercial and Banking & Finance sectors.

Thor List, Head of Technology

Thor List is a specialist in modular intelligent systems. He is an experienced software engineer with more than a decade of commercial experience from companies in Europe and the US. He was principal software developer at Soliloquy Inc. in New York where he architected systems for e-commerce involving an automated shopping assistant capable of natural language interaction with online shoppers. He has also held the position of Research Fellow at the Institute for Perception, Action & Behaviour at Edinburgh University.

Thor List holds a Master's degree in Astrophysics and a B.Sc. degree in Physics, Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen, and is expected to receive his Ph.D. at University of Edinburgh this year.

Marc Cashin, COO

Marc has worked in a number of multi-national organisations in Telecommunications and Information Technology over the past 25 years. He has considerable technical and managerial experience having held positions in Finance, Technical Development, Programme Management and Business Development. Marc also lectures on a number of 3rd level courses including Business Economics and Operations & Supply Chain Management, Innovation & Project Management on the AIT and Coventry MBA programmes.

Marc completed his MBA with Oxford-Brookes University in 2003 and is also currently undertaking a Doctorate in Work Based Learning Studies with Middlesex University in the area of 'Knowledge Management through Roadmapping Processes leading to Competitive Advantage'.

Marc has also given presentations at the University of Limerick's ICT Innovation & Technology Transfer Forum and the Biotechnology for Innovation Network on Technology Management & Product Innovation and Business Process Management. He has also presented at international seminars to Telecommunications and Information Technology industry experts on Technology Roadmapping and Market Analysis of Telecommunications Data Services in the Irish Market.

Marc was previously Head of Commercial Products & Services with Meteor Mobile Communications, Programme Manager with Ericsson and Head of Product & Project Management with telecoms R&D company, Tecnomen Irl.