Paul Savage: As Chief Executive Officer, Paul is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the ZolkC business including strategic planning, sales, marketing, operations & delivery, technology roadmap, finance and corporate compliance.
Paul is an honours graduate from University College Dublin’s Electronic Engineering Faculty. He started his career working on numerous mobile telecommunications projects within Logica and with mobile operators worldwide.
Bronwen Robinson: Bronwen is the director responsible for business development in ZolkC. She is responsible for the sales strategy for the heritage market in the Uk and Ireland. Through her extensive network of industry contacts she has developed and has started to execute the channel sales model in Italy and Canada that will form the basis of ZolkC's expansion in 2011 and 2012.
Bronwen has extensive research and design experience in the fields of lifelong learning, social inclusion, and adult learning, also in the design of learning approaches for online or blended learning models.
Barry Downes: Barry has over 20 years experience in software and technology, including executive positions in product development in the USA and Europe. Executive Director of the Innovation and Commercial division for the TSSG, he is also the Executive Director of the Centre for Converged Services (3CS) – a specialized applied research centre focusing on converged technologies and services.
Dr. William Donnelly: Dr Donnelly has been at the forefront of the European Telecommunications Management research and development industry for over 20 years.
In 1991 he joined Broadcom Éireann Research, where he led a number of successful projects as head of telecommunications management—participation. In 1996 Dr Donnelly left Broadcom to take up a lectureship post in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) where he established the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) with Eamonn de Leastar, Mícheál Ó Foghlú and later Barry Downes.
Kernel Capital is one of Ireland’s largest and most active venture capital funds. The firm has a portfolio of investee companies across, technology, life science and general industry. Kernel Capital and our associate Life Science Investment firm Seroba Kernel have €196m under management spread across multiple Funds.
In late 2011, Kernel Capital through the Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity Fund closed a €500k investment in ZolkC.