Directors
Conor Toolan (Executive Director) is an MBA-qualified Engineer with over ten years energy / cleantech experience, including Shell, PwC and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, where he held a variety of senior strategic planning, energy policy and programme development roles. Ireland’s first lecturer in energy policy, he has worked internationally as a sustainable energy consultant and project developer for the past five years.
David Gavagan is a founder and current chief executive of Hibernia Capital Partners, a venture capital fund of €75m which produced a number of investments which generated investor returns in excess of 3-4 times capital invested;
Elliott Griffin is a practicing accountant and Corporate Finance adviser working on behalf of investors, purchasers and sellers of businesses. His practice, BVP Accountants and Business Advisers, has acted as adviser to transactions with a cumulative value in excess of €30m. The practice’s deal flow fits the typical profile of companies which qualify for BES investment. The practice has an all Ireland profile through its successful website www.simple.ie and has linkages with accounting firms throughout the country to source our deal flow.
