Episode 40 - Next Step Event - Sell it, Scale it, IPO it!

We are delighted to bring you the 40th episode of the podcast series 'Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly'. We recently staged the second in our ‘Next Step, Sell it, Scale it, IPO it!’ series of events in the historical House of Lords, Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin, to an audience of business owners and entrepreneurs.

Aidan was joined by a world-class panel for an insightful conversation. Our guests included Terry Clune, CEO and founder of CluneTech and Chairman of Transfermate, Andrea Reynolds, CEO and Founder of Swoop and Brendan Mooney, Former CEo of Kainos plc.

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This podcast brings you insightful conversation between Aidan Donnelly and entrepreneurs and business owners/management with their own unique story to tell. A new episode of the series will be released biweekly. You can listen to 'Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly' via any of your usual podcast providers.

Terry Clune

As a result of difficulties trying to claim back German Tax he had overpaid working there one summer, Terry Clune decided to take matters into his own hands and started preparing German tax returns for his University friends. This resulted in the establishment of Taxback.com in 1996. Driven by Terry’s keen eye for business and entrepreneurial spirit, Taxback.com has since become just one of a collection of global companies that make up the CluneTech group. CluneTech is now the parent company of Ireland’s most successful and ground breaking Fintech brands – including TransferMate Global Payments, Immedis (recently acquired) and Taxback International. In an ultra-competitive Fintech sector, CluneTech companies are all at the very cutting edge of financial innovation developed here in Ireland and exported to the world’s largest multinational clientele. 

Andrea Reynolds

With more than 20 years’ experience in corporate financing, largely focused on matching businesses with funding and investment opportunities, Andrea Reynolds launched Swoop in 2018 to help SMEs startup, scale up and finance their new ventures. Swoop has developed a technology platform designed to simplify and speed-up access to loans, grants and equity funding for SMEs. It effectively works as a sort of virtual CFO, pulling in a business’s bank accounts and other data to help it ascertain better financing options from a wide range of lenders, investors and government grant agencies. It also helps businesses unlock cash by establishing ways to cut costs for banking, utilities and other services. While Britain is the company’s biggest market, it does have a growing customer base in Ireland and is now firmly focused primarily on North America. 

Brendan Mooney

Brendan Mooney joined Kainos (KAYNOS) in 1989 as a trainee software engineer before moving into a number of technical and commercial roles. He was appointed to the top job in 2001 and floated the business on the London stock market in 2015. At that time, the firm was valued at £161m compared to £1.4bn today. Kainos provides digital technology services and platforms for public and private organizations in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and internationally. It operates through two divisions, Digital Services and Workday Practice, delivering customized online digital solutions for public sector, commercial sector, and healthcare organizations, as well as providing consulting, project management, integration, and post deployment services for Workday's software suite. He announced his decision to step down as CEO of the company in 2023. 

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