An electronic engineer with 25 years experience working as a co-owner and executive director of an Irish confectionary company during its growth from approx 40 to 500 employees in that period. Worked in a number of operational areas of the business including planning and logistics, as well as founding and launching its International Franchise Program. After experiencing a minor hacking on his personal bank account, realized that the area of personal data and identity globally was essentially broken and went about founding a company in 2014 to fix it. This was the beginning of PlanetVerify.