County Louth, Ireland
In 2025, I decided to fulfil a full-time operational in my own company, OnYerBike Carlingford, provide cycling experiences to individuals, couples, families, groups and Corporates. We have had a VERY successful 2025 and we are looking forward very much to 2026 and to the year after when the Narrow Water Bridge connects the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland, a €100m+ projected funded by the Shared Ireland fund. In June 2022, I was appointed CEO of Bluechip Technologies in Europe, my remit to execute a strategic plan to establish a European client base for the company which has been hugely successful across Africa, counting many major Telcos and Banks as clients over the past 14 years. That assignment was completed and I now act as a freelance consultant to the Bluechip Technologies group as required. I have significant experience in the arena of growing IT companies and until March 2022, served as the Senior Vice President of Sales for Evolving Systems, my previous company(Business Logic Systems) having been acquired by Evolving in 2017. My IT/Telecoms career spans almost four decades and during that time, I have sought to inspire, motivate and guide people to achieve their potential through their drive, focus and ambition.
Bluechip Technologies is a recognised leader in the provision business application and data management solutions across Africa having been established in 2008 and having worked for many of the leading Banks and Telcos in Africa. Our new EU entity has been established in response to referrals from our international clients and to a growing demand for our products and services across Europe This strategic expansion of Bluechip Technologies positions the company as a new, competitive entrant in the EU market, offering data warehousing and analytic products and focused exclusively on assisting companies in planning, implementing and operating business application solutions for Banks and Telcos . Bluechip Technologies is without question a leading data warehousing company in Africa, with an extensive track record of working with some of the World's biggest OEMs such as Oracle and Microsoft. We specialise in collating data from disparate sources and transforming the data into information that helps businesses understand trends such as customer lifetime value and how to make better business decisions based on data gathered. I am thrilled to have been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of our EU Subsidiary, having worked with the Bluechip Technologies founders for over a decade.
When I arrived in Carlingford in August 2018 from South Africa, I was in a full time executive role as SVP Sales with a NASDAQ quoted company, travelling the world, doing deals, visiting offices and clients. I wanted to starta business in Carlingford with an eye to the next phase of my life and to be part of what is a thriving medieval village and a close knit community. A keen cyclist, I decided to launch a bike hire company at the start of the Carlingford Lough Greenway. At the time, the greenway was only 6.5km long to the next village along, Omeath, but there were plans for it to be extended to reach Newry, 18.3km away. I secured a 'compound', craned in a shipping container, filled it with bikes and off we went...I selected and employed a few people, and my wife managed them. I played a part during weekends and holidays - it was an antedote to my day job, dealing with real people that just wanted some fresh air, exercise and a bit of craic. In our first full year of operation, we were awarded TripAdvisor's Traveller's Choice, and indeed, have gone on to win that award in six successive years. We survived COVID, with no help whatsoever from the Irish Government as our 2019 revenues were €1000 below their minimum threshold for support. Actually, we had two 'boom years' during COVID as cycling was one of the few things that you were allowed to do during lockdown ! The two years post COVID were disappointing revenue wise and all the greenway extension plans had been delayed due to the pandemic. I lleft Evolving Systems Feb 2022 and decided to spend a much higher proportion of my time running the operations of OnYerBike, whilst also providing strategic consultancy to Bluechip Technologies. Our revenues began to grow again. Fast forward to 2025, the greenway extension was completed, the surface tarmaced and it was a dry summer..Net effect, we doubled our bike hire revenues and we were also awarded All-Ireland Business All-Stars Champion Bike Hire Co. 2025.
Evolving Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:EVOL) is a provider of software and services for connected mobile devices to over 100 network operators in 66 countries worldwide. The Company's portfolio includes market-leading solutions and services for consumer lifecycle engagement (acquisition, activation, upsell, retention) analytics and monetization. Founded in 1985, the Company has its headquarters in Englewood, Colorado, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, India, Malaysia and Romania.
In February 2016, I was promoted to become the Chief Executive Officer of Business Logic Systems. My role and responsibility was the delivery of profitable growth through global expansion and delivering an enhanced range Customer Value Management services and technology to our existing clients and to new customers. Notable achievements included establishing a 3 year technology and CVM service to a North African operator and a major Group deal with one of the world's largest mobile operators In July 2017, Business Logic Systems was acquired by Evolving Systems, a NASDAQ quoted company, and I became the SVP Global Sales for Evolving
Business Logic Systems are a leading provider of contextual Data Driven Marketing solutions to Communication Service providers InTelestage™ Portfolio InTelestage™ is specifically designed to enable Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to incrementally increase the lifetime value potential of customers. Modular and flexible, all solutions in the portfolio deliver full capability to micro-segment subscriber bases, generate automated and targeted two-way campaigns, and automatically provision rewards. The Business Logic Systems Marketing Excellence Centre was established to deliver expert CVM services to Mobile Operators in their quest to develop data driven marketing strategies, a competitive edge and maximise the lifetime value of their customers. BLS has been successful in partnering a number of MNOs in Africa and LatAm in transforming their approach to Customer Value Management Marketing Expertise Working hand-in-hand with many of the world's leading operators and CSPs, Business Logic Systems is an authority on the subject of building customer profitability through intelligent campaign lifecycle management. Thought Leadership - Sharing Insight and Advice Business Logic Systems has a highly experienced team of experts that advise on a wide range of marketing excellence opportunities, including: Market and Control Group Analysis Profiling and Segmentation Strategy Campaign Optimisation CLV management Loyalty programmes Convergence strategy My role at BLS as Global Chief Sales Officer was to develop our business globally through our offices in Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Cluj-Napoca and Newbury. BLS has over 20 Communication Service Providers using our technologies and services, a number that increases year on year.
In late 2006, I established an International Sales & Marketing Consultancy with the objective of advising a range of organisations on business development on an international basis. I successfully engaged in a project to advise a start-up International GSM MVNO on Operational Support Systems and Outsourced Call Centres. During 2008 I was engaged in a very interesting project that secured multi million $ USA business for a UK company. PPL developed a laminate material, formed into sleeves, that fits over the butt end of wooden Utility Poles before they are set in the ground.and prevents toxic preservatives leaching out of the pole. In so doing, it protects the environment and prolongs the pole's life by protecting it from decay. The laminate is also termite proof. There are at least 150 million wood Utility Poles in the USA alone. Prior to this, I was contracted to act as the MD of an Enterprise Mobile Data Systems company, K Plus Software (see below)