The Team

Colum is the CEO and founder of ID-Pal. Prior to this, Colum worked as a stockbroker and has over 20 years experience within the financial markets. He is a qualified charting analyst as well as a qualified financial advisor. Read Colum’s CEO profile here.

Previously James was a management consultant for Accenture where he worked on a number of client engagements ranging from strategy development to operational excellence and delivery within the Financial Services industry. Read James’ CBO profile here.

Shelley is a Harvard graduate with 12 years of marketing experience. She has worked in the US, Asia and Europe launching global campaigns for large corporations as well as building new brands for young companies. Read Shelley’s CMO profile here.

Rob is an IT Professional and founder of Perf-Util Consulting, which he setup in 2009 working with some of the world’s largest Utilities. He specialises in bringing a business-goal-focus to IT with over 13 year of experience in Solution/Enterprise Architecture and structuring effective IT divisions. Read an interview with Robert here.

Joining ID-Pal from Future Finance Student Loan company, Simon holds an MBA in General Management and brings over 20 years Financial Services experience to ID-Pal. Simon has worked in start-up, scaling and large corporate organisations. His background is primarily in Banking and Fintech.

Originally a marketer, Brian has worked with a number of Irish Fintech companies as they expanded across Europe. Since completing an MBA his focus has shifted to more commercial roles, with a particular focus on Business Development and the management of culturally and geographically diverse sales teams.

Justin has over 12 years experience with Software Technology and team leadership. Working with multiple blue chip companies including Kerry Group and Tesco he has led large scale projects successfully to completion.

Conor is the founder and Managing Director of Information Security Assurance Services Limited (ISAS), an ISO 27001 certified company. Conor has over 25 years experience in ICT Security and advises both a number of public sector bodies as well as private enterprises. Conor currently sits on the Audit Committee in the Department of Agriculture.

Sinead has over 17 years experience in regulatory compliance within the financial services sector. She is a qualified solicitor and holds a number of diplomas in legal studies including an Advanced Diploma in Data Protection Law. Sinead is a member of the Institute of Directors, Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland and the Association of Data Protection Officers in Ireland. Sinead is currently the Head of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs in ISAS.

Alex is an experienced business development & relationship manager with over 11 years history working within the Financial Services industry in London, advising clients and executing their business. He holds a BCOMM (Hons) Degree and MSc. Postgrad qualification in Management Consultancy from UCD as well as being an FCA approved individual. He recently completed Harvard Law Schools Executive Education Programme on Negotiation – PON Global.

Richard is a seasoned sales professional with solid commercial experience with start-up and established companies in global industries and markets. Richard’s customer-orientated and solution-based approach will support ID-Pal’s client’s objective of delivering robust, future proof and user-friendly solutions to satisfy their growth and data compliance needs.

Finbar brings a vast experience of software testing and process automation to ID-Pal. He specialises in software quality assurance, continuous integration and continuous deployment of cloud, web and mobile application solutions. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (Infrastructure) from Technological University Dublin and has worked at numerous companies across various industries such as; FinTech, SalesTech, Telematics, Retail & Games.

Founder and Managing Director of CFO Services, Fionán is a Management Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor with over 18 years commercial experience in a variety of finance roles. Fionán is the financial mentor for the current NDRC Venture Lab Programme where he assists cohort companies to develop robust multi-annual financial models with a view to raising investment funding. He is a regular speaker at business start-up and business community events, on topics such as business planning, financial management and sources of business funding.

Rob joined the Product function in ID Pal from Hostelworld. He brings valuable Product Management experience alongside a wealth of knowledge gained working in Financial Services across Product, Onboarding, and AML.

Tom interned with ID-Pal during a formative period for the company. Tom graduated from Trinity College Dublin, with a First in English Lit and History. Tom brings an interdisciplinary, customer-first approach to the CX team much of this as a result of his experience working in customer facing roles with Carphone Warehouse. Find out why Tom chose ID-Pal as the best option for his career development here.

Toni is a software engineer with 20 years experience and his most recent role was with Mastercard Ireland. He has extensive knowledge in Agile frameworks and his core focus is driving Continuous Improvement across businesses. Toni specialises in helping companies undergo agile transformation in a controlled manner.

Val is a software engineer with extensive start-up experience, where the necessity to wear many hats gave him exposure to all aspects of various Web Stacks – as well as insight into a variety of different software languages, setups, frameworks, technologies and tools.

Paddy is a Chartered Accountant, as well as a Chartered Tax Advisor and has been working in the financial services sector for 12 years. He is a Partner at Nexus Taxation, a specialist financial services tax advisory firm based in Dublin, which he founded in March 2015.

Caroline joins ID-Pal from Currency Fair, and holds a degree in Business and German from Trinity College Dublin as well as an altMBA completed in 2020. She specialises in devising and delivering marketing campaigns for the Financial Services Industry in EMEA and APAC. Prior to this she worked in agencies managing PPC campaigns for a portfolio of B2B clients.

Emma is an experienced and knowledgeable QA Professional that has noted expertise as a QA Manager and Senior QA Engineer for Pharmapod, Kyckr, SE2.com, Delaware Life and Sun Life. She has worked with large international teams and understands how to effectively manage employees across the globe. She is proficient and knowledgeable in all areas of software testing and has over 14 year’s worth of experience of bringing quality to the customer.

Julia is a front-end developer with experience in all aspects of web development. Holding a degree in Visual Communication from the University of Delaware, as well as an MSc. in Interactive Digital Media from Trinity College Dublin, she specializes in building and maintaining user-friendly and responsive interfaces.

Tanzeeb is a Biotechnology Engineer with an MSc. in Business Management from Trinity College Dublin. He specialises in Business Intelligence, Business Analysis and Research and Development. Prior to joining ID-Pal he worked as a Derivatives Trader & Analyst.

Having graduated from the Marketing Institute of Ireland in 2000 and from the Institute of Commercial Management in 2005 with qualifications in Marketing, PR & Advertising Peter has spent the best part of the last 15 years gaining extensive sales experience in Strategic Business Planning, Key Account Management and Business Development. In 2013 after spending 6 years in New Zealand Peter returned to Ireland working with several SaaS providers, partnering with some of the most recognisable global organisations across all sectors including Banking & Finance, Insurance, Life Science, Aviation and Retail and geographic regions including Asia-Pacific, EMEA & the US.

Glen is a software engineer with experience delivering business critical internal tools in the Telecommunications and eCommerce industries, with companies such as Imagine Communications Group and eDesk. Glen achieved his degree in Computing and IT Management in The Institute of Technology Tallaght, and he is passionate about Agile development and improving productivity. He specializes in writing scalable and robust PHP solutions.

Colm has focused his career on helping SMEs in Ireland the UK. He has been working in sales for the best part of 10 years and has extensive experience working within the Fintech and Regtech industries. Colm’s passionate approach to helping businesses grow is what brough him to ID- Pal.