Management Team
John Burke
Chief Financial Officer
John is a Chartered Accountant with twenty years experience in industry and practice. He currently has his own practice and has been working as the company’s CFO on an outsourced basis for ten years. Prior to setting up his own practice he worked in practice with Ernst & Young in Dublin and with Stewart & MacLochlainn in Letterkenny. He has also spent six years working in industry as a Financial Controller with both service and manufacturing organisations.
Dominic Shannon
Operations Manager
Dominic joined Kelsius in 2008, bringing with him 30 years experience in managerial and technical roles, including 15 years with BT. At Kelsius, Dominic’s areas of responsibility include customer services, installations, production, materials, purchasing and system calibration. Dominic also manages the area of Quality & Environmental Management Systems, helping the company achieve ISO9001:2008 in May 2009 and ISO14001:2004 in Feb 2010. He is currently pursuing management studies with the Irish Management Institute.
Fred Lusson
Head of Development
Fred has 14 years experience in web architecture development and deployment. He previously worked 7 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry in France before moving to Ireland, where he spent the first 18 months developing an enterprise level secure mailing system, using various level of encryptions. He then joined Kelsius in 2001, where he conceptualised and implemented an Internet solution, capable of harvesting and reporting temperature data recorded by the Kelsius sensor network. He understands technical constraints and challenges that customers meet and he consistently delivers intuitive, scalable and secure solutions to meet new demands in a rapidly evolving environment.
Paddy Hearty
Sales Manager
Paddy joined Kelsius in July 2008 bringing with him a wealth of international sales and marketing experience gained through working with software and technology companies in Europe, Asia and North America. Paddy has extensive knowledge of the Healthcare industry having sold software solutions into this market for several years. At Kelsius, Paddy is responsible for business development and growing sales in the hospitality sector, selling FoodCheck to food services organisations.
Christine Roche
Marketing Manager
Christine began working with Kelsius in 2011 and has a background in technology marketing, having worked for several software companies during the past 15 years. She spent seven years in Boston and has worked for Norkom Technologies, WBT Systems, and Qstream, leading their marketing efforts and working in conjunction with salesteams to put sound strategies and plans in place to build product awareness and develop the sales pipeline. She holds a B.Sc in Management and a Diploma in Psychology.