Brian Kinane

Mr Brian Kinane is an experienced telecom industry executive, corporate financier, entrepreneur and computer scientist. Mr Kinane has extensive experience including managing/advising funds and investment vehicles that invest in high-growth software start- ups in artificial intelligence, cyber security, IOT, immersive technologies and web 3.0.

In addition, Mr Kinane is a co-founder and the Founding Partner of Sure Valley Ventures (SVV). Previously, Mr Kinane co-founded Pluto Digital PLC (Pluto) a leader in Web 3.0 Metaverse and Decentralised Finance (DeFI) technologies and prior to that he also was a founding shareholder and director of FeedHenry, a leader in mobile cloud technologies, which was sold to Red Hat Inc in 2014. Mr Kinane was also founder of the Riverfort group where he has long term experience of special situations investment and venture debt investment into private and publicly traded companies including sectors such as technology, electric battery, natural resource and environmental technologies where he has funded over 60 companies.

From a corporate perspective, Mr Kinane has worked as both an industry executive and entrepreneur in the technology sector, including roles at global telecoms companies such as Ericsson group and Telenor group and co-founder roles at technology companies in the mobile data sector.

Mr Kinane’s academic background includes a computer science degree from Trinity College Dublin and MBAs from London Business School and Columbia Business School. Mr Kinane is registered with the FCA.