Paddy Holahan

Paddy Holahan is an experienced manager, technology entrepreneur and angel investor. In 2002 he founded NewBay which grew to become the leader in cloud digital lifestyle solutions for operators. NewBay’s customers included AT&T, T-Mobile, Telefonica/02, France Telecom/Orange, LG, Alltel and Telstra. NewBay was acquired by RIM(Blackberry) in October 2011 for a reported $100m. Prior to founding NewBay, Paddy was executive VP of Marketing and Product Management at Baltimore Technologies where he was instrumental growing Baltimore to become a public company valued at over $14bn. He was previously Chairman of Web Reservations International (Hostelworld.com) which was sold in 2009 for over €200m. Previous to this, Paddy was co-founder and CEO of East Coast Software. He has a first-class honours degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin and completed the Leadership4Growth programme at Stanford University. He is also a Director of Asavie Ltd and Chairman of Homestay.com.