Irial has over 20 years’ experience leading the delivery of software to enterprise customers across multiple industries (including Telecommunications, Financial Services and Insurance) – in a mix of technical and management roles, most recently as a Senior Product Manager at IBM. He pivoted to Healthcare via a BioInnovate Fellowship in 2019/2020, where he worked on a cross disciplinary team exploring unmet needs in Cardiology.
At the onset of the pandemic Irial led the award-winning ICU FamilyLink project that developed a custom video-call system for ICU at University Hospital Galway (UHG), collaborating with a team of volunteers spanning NUI Galway (NUIG), UHG, IBM & Cisco. Irial is passionate about applying his deep enterprise software experience to help transform healthcare.