John Whelan

Founder of a three tech startups two of which raised 7 figure venture capital rounds. One of these startups, Alatto traded for 9 years with sales averaging over €1m per year. More recently consultant to Vodafone Ireland and then in 2008 became Technology Transfer Case Manager at Trinity College, Dublin responsible for commercialisation of ICT research. While In Trinity I set up and ran Trinity College’s start-up accelerator LaunchBox .While Executive Director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Trinity College, Dublin designed and secured European funding to implement Trinity’s Connected Health accelerator “Validator”.