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Noel is an entrepreneur & investor with a 25 year track record of founding and building technology companiesin the US and Ireland. He is currently the co-founder & co-CEO at Bronto.io, a log-data platform company. He is also a VC at Conviction Capital.
Formerly, he was a co-Founder and Exec Chairman of voice AI pioneer Voysis (bought by Apple) and led eCommerce analytics leader Profitero (bought by Publicis). As a Venture Partner at Polaris Partners, he led investments in Boxever (acquired by Sitecore), LogEntries (acquired by Rapid 7) and Pointy (acquired by Google). He previously established the co-working and startup founder community Dogpatch Labs in Dublin. He spent 10 years in Silicon Valley in public & private sector roles, from securing major tech inward investment for the Government of Ireland to founding and scaling an email security platform.
Noel is passionate about company building and considered value creation and is an advocate for social capitalism. He first became involved with GIY in 2012 and has been a strong supporter since that time.
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