Entrepreneur Name Company Name Background
Emerging Category 2005
Gregory J. Turley
eTrawler (ArgusCarHire.com)

ETrawler is a travel technology group headquartered in Ireland that develops pioneering web based car hire reservation technology. Founded by CEO Greg Turley in 1996 ETrawler operates and manages two distinct divisions to market this unique intelligent technology; firstly to consumers through ArgusCarHire.com and secondly a business-to-business division CarTrawler.com, marketing a white label version of this advanced technology to strategic global partners.

Andrew Walsh & Craig Benton
Celtic Composting Systems Ltd

Celtic Composting Systems, Ltd. (CCS) was founded by a leading American waste management expert, Craig H. Benton, and Dr. Andrew Walsh, an Irish microbiologist in November of 2001 in County Cork. CCS incorporated a UK subsidiary company, Celtic Composting UK, Ltd. (CCUK), in March of 2005, which is based in Cambridge.

Donal Byrne
Corvil Networks

Corvil was founded in April 2000 on the back of revolutionary innovation developed by the company founders, Prof. John Lewis, Raymond Russell, Fergal Toomey, and Ian Dowse at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS). Donal Byrne was appointed Chairman and then CEO of Corvil shortly after its foundation in order to bring the company to its full commercial potential. Corvil is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with sales and support offices in New York and San Jose, USA and London, UK.

Brian Conlon
First Derivitives Plc

First Derivatives plc established 1996, Headquartered Newry, Co Down. Floated on London Stock Exchange 2002.

Brian Baird
Meridio

Founded in Belfast in 2001, Meridio provides:


- Complete lifecycle records management from creation and retention to destruction
- EDRM transparently integrated with Microsoft Office System
- PRO 2002 and DoD5015.2 approved records management
Ann-Marie Slavin
OPT2VOTE

OPT2VOTE is a private limited company set up in 2002 with the objective of providing, on a commercial basis, the design and delivery of e-enabled election processes in the United Kingdom and beyond. The company is based in Derry, Northern Ireland with an office in London. It is planned to open a new sales office in the North West of England late in 2005.

Colm Lyon
Realex Payments

Colm Lyon founded Realex payments in April 2000. Initially trading under the name Pay and Shop, the business was based out of Manor Street Digital Park. The service provided by Realex Payments enables 700 businesses to sell online and as such it represents a major contribution to the development of eCommerce in the national context.

Jerry Kennelly
Stockbyte

Stockbyte was founded in Tralee, Co. Kerry in 1997 by Jerry Kennelly to create and market stock photography to the global marketplace.
Stockbyte images are distributed by every major global distributor of creative imagery, including Getty Images, Corbis and Jupier Media. End users include Time Magazine, BBC, Saatchi & Saatchi and AOL.




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