Meet the Team

Clare Colhoun

As 8over8's Chief Executive Officer, Clare Colhoun is responsible for setting the Company's overall strategic direction.

Clare has over 20 years of diverse business experience in capital project intensive markets and has driven profitable growth at 8over8 since December 2000. Before joining 8over8, Clare held Executive Positions in Business Development, Strategic Planning and Finance in various Global Blue Chip Businesses. These include Pacific Telesis (first roll-out of cable-television in U.K.), AirTouch (now Vodafone) implementing the first wireless GSM network in Belgium, and ICO-Teledesic (pioneers in global mobile satellite telecommunications). Clare has created successful joint ventures and secured new business in many parts of the globe including Russia, Kazakhstan, Japan, and North America.  Clare holds an MBA from London Business School; is a Chartered Certified Accountant and earned a BA in Finance with Dublin City University.

Gerry McGurgan

Gerry McGurgan is Co-Founder and Commercial Director of 8over8.

Gerry has worked in the energy markets for the past 15 years. He was on the project board of the European Union's DGXIII TAPPE project which looked at improving the contracting relationships between Europe’s Energy companies and contractors.

In 2000 he formed 8over8 and has focused on delivering contract management solutions to the oil and gas market. Since then, 8over8 has successfully developed an international customer base of large capital projects which partners include ADCO, BP, Chevron, Shell, Oxy, Husky, BG Group and Nexen. Gerry holds an BSc Hons. in Computing Science.

Declan Gribbin

As Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of 8over8, Declan has extensive experience in the architecture and development of large scale web-based enterprise solutions.

Since 8over8’s formation he has worked closely with customers in the oil and gas market to ensure the architecture, development and delivery of the 8over8 product set has remained focused on meeting their key challenges.  He continues to apply his technical leadership in setting the technical direction that drives product development and research at 8over8, while advising the management team on all aspects of technology-driven market changes and long term visions and strategies.  Declan holds a B.A. Hons in Business Management and MSc in Computer Science.