Charles Garvey

Biography

Charles Garvey is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in growing Irish technology companies internationally. From 1990 to 2003 he was first COO and then CEO of Horizon Technology Group Plc. and took Horizon from a small privately held company to a major European multinational with significant global credentials. The group became Sun Microsystems largest partner in Europe, the largest distributor of PCs in the Irish Market. IBM’s fastest growing partner in the UK, Oracle’s exclusive distributor in the UK, Cisco System’s largest training partner in Europe, SAP’s largest independent consulting firm in Ireland and a host of other accolades including the largest contract software developer in Ireland. Charles took Horizon public on the London and Dublin stock exchange. He has extensive M&A experience handling over 13 acquisitions and disposals. The company achieved a market capitalization worth over €1b and employed 720 people in 5 countries through 13 separate companies. Charles continued to work with Horizon right up to its sale to Avnet Corp in 2009. From 2006 to 2011 Charles has been CEO of a technology startup where he grew the business to over 800 clients worldwide. Charles is a mentor to several high potential startups and has extensive experience at forging and managing partnerships with major multinational companies and in corporate finance and fundraising through angel investors, VCs, banks and public markets.

Research Interest

 Biomedical Science