MoneyNeverSleeps

Greg Chew, founder and CEO of QPQ , joins us on the show this week to talk about blockchain, smart contracts...and trading bananas! QPQ is uniquely positioned to be the key enabler of digitalisation. As such, the development of our technology and platforms will have enormous financial, social, and commercial impacts. Backing up our unique technological and business proposition, we have assembled a...

Des O'Donohoe from FundRecs joins us this week to talk about learning to be an entrepreneur...and his love of gaming! Fund Recs was founded in 2013 when the company founders were approached by a large bank to develop a new reconciliation platform for it's Fund Administration unit. With over 25 years of operational and technology experience between them, the team are building a platform to transfor...

Kris Koik from Flender joins us on the show, fresh from raising €10m in debt funding to support SME's through its platform. and also shares his story on how tennis helped him as an entrepreneur! Flender is a peer to peer lending platform aimed in particular at social lending - people looking for a loan from friends and family or a local business looking for a loan from the local community who may...

Husband and wife team, Paul & Laura Smyth, join us this week to talk about their journey as partners in life and business, and why entrepreneurship was the natural fit for both! Top Tier Recruitment is a specialist Recruitment Consultancy servicing a blue-chip domestic and international client base across Finance and FinTech.​ -Funds, Operations, Middle & Back Office -Developers, DBAs, Arc...

Vanessa Tierney, co-founder of Abodoo , joins us this week to talk about building communities and educating the masses about the idea of smart working! Abodoo was created (like most well-meaning ideas are) to solve a problem. How to fix the issues around sourcing great talent without being restricted by sq footage or commuting. Through smart working we believe that companies can grow and communiti...

Chris Adelsbach, MD of Techstars , joins us to talk about his journey from entrepreneur to angel investor, and supporting founders as an investor, mentor and occasional agony aunt! This week we are joined by Chris Adelsbach ( @ChrisAdelsbach ). Chris is a London-based entrepreneur, fintech investor, advisor, and mentor. He is a Managing Director at Techstars , the worldwide network that helps entr...

Lisa Smith from EngageSmith joins us on the show this week to talk about becoming an entrepreneur and to how to speak the language of Millennials!

Emerald De Leeuw joins us this week to talk about making the change from studying law to becoming an entrepreneur and fighting the good fight for GDPR!

Enda Leahy, founder and CEO of Courtsdesk , joins us to talk about his journey from journalist to entrepreneur and all the lessons learned on the way! By centralising data and providing tools for easy search and analytics, Courtsdesk supports users in their research, monitoring, KYC, and AML functions. Our users benefit from access to data from the UK and Irish Upper Courts, Lower Courts, Company...

Big thanks to Niall Dennehy from AidTech for joining us this week to talk about bringing Blockchain to the masses...and his career as a busker singing U2 songs! AID:Tech develops identity-focused solutions that enable people to own, control and manage their own data, you can learn more about what they do on their website .

We are joined this week by Hesus Inoma of WeSavvy to talk about how changing his lifestyle led to him changing the insurance industry!

Jacob Claflin joins us this week to talk about his journey with Cambrist ...and the last time he cried!

Lisa White joins us this week to talk about transforming organisations and mental health challenges.

Barry McCarthy, founder and CEO of Assure Hedge, joins us this week to talk about bringing foreign currency hedging to the masses...and getting his boat licence!

Karen Malone from Centaur Fund Services joins us to talk about constantly trying to stay like a start-up while building a large global business....and the challenge of hiring the right people.

Mai Santamaria joins us this week to talk about how she fell into accounting and used it as a stepping stone to drive change across many organisations....as well as sharing an unfortunate translation mistake!

Sean Murphy and Ed Barrett-Shortt join us this week to talk about how Simpler is going to change the mortgage broking business and how they haven't had any arguments...yet!

Niamh Bushnell joins the show to talk about TechIreland, her journey to the US and home...and the art of storytelling!

Barry Brennan joins us this week to talk about going from the corporate world to advising and investing in start-ups.....and his love of musical instruments!

Brian Norton, co-founder and CEO of Supply Finance , joins our first episode of MoneyNeverSleeps to talk about what drives him, how he has had the entrepreneur 'bug' since college, going again with start-up number two....and his love of Lego!