Board and Advisors
Clare Colhoun (CEO)
Clare brings to 8over8 a deep understanding and experience of the business challenges in capital project intensive markets. Clare joined 8over8 in December 2000, prior to which she held senior business development, strategic planning and finance leadership positions in various capital project intensive businesses, including Pacific Telesis (first roll-out of cable-television in U.K.), AirTouch (implementing the first wireless GSM network in Belgium) and ICO-Teledesic (pioneers in global mobile satellite telecommunications).
Clare is responsible for business strategy and driving profitable growth. Clare holds an MBA from London Business School, is a Chartered Certified Accountant and earned a BA in Finance with Dublin City University.
Gerry Mc Gurgan (Sales Director)
Gerry is a co-founder of 8over8, an entrepreneur and experienced Commercial Director. He has built a winning sales team that is gaining significant new business across the globe. In 1994 he joined the management team of the European Commission’’s DGXIII TAPPE project which analyzed the business requirements of contract professionals in the energy, utility and public sectors. Gerry’’s reasonability is to drive his team to deliver new sales and manage key accounts. He is building a base of international partners which will represent 8over8 in strategic oil and gas geographic locations.
Declan Gribbin (CTO)
As Chief Technology Officer, Declan brings the required strategic, operational and technical leadership that drives product development at 8over8. He travels frequently to customer sites in order to understand at first hand customer challenges in order to focus product development efforts. Declan is a keen follower of technology trends and is passionate in evaluating and selecting technologies that add value to ProCon customers, while ensuring 8over8 continues to exploit the latest technological innovations. Declan is a co-founder of 8over8 and has from its establishment been involved in the development and delivery of the ProCon product. He has a BA Hons in Business and an MSc in Computer Science.
Peter Tray (Non-Executive)
Peter is Managing Director of Richard Archie & Sons. He has over 30 years experience in international trading with consequent insights into both purchasing and sell side contracts. Peter has benefited from extensive business dealings throughout Europe, North America, Russia and Japan. Peter advises the company on its accounts in Russia and the FSU and has direct contacts with strategic funding organizations.
Mary Prunty (Non-Executive)
Mary is a software industry veteran. She founded her own software company back in the early 1990′’s and has worked on strategic projects for international clients including News International, Capital Bank and Cornhill Insurance. In the past Mary has worked closely with the European Commission directorates DGXIII and DGIII in software best practice. She continues to work as an independent technology and project management consultant and is programme manager of a number of European Commission funded technology projects. Mary has chaired the Northern Ireland Prince’’s Business Trust, mentors a number of small business start-ups and is a member of the Software Industry Federation.