Founder at Worky.com
NationalityIrish
Current locationIreland
Work categoryIT and Technology
EducationMasters/PostGrad
Founder of several tech ventures over past 20 years. Interested in new dotcom models. Believer in Ireland.
Ray Nolan's Professional Experience
XSellCo - President
Under wraps for now. Launching some time Q2 2012.
Target sales c. €50MM year one.
Always looking for the best tech folk out there, and paying accordingly!
Also spent a lot of time as a PHP developer
Smartbin - Non-Exec Director
SmartBin is the global leader in remote monitoring and management systems for the waste collection industry.
Skyscanner - Non-exec Chairman
Skyscanner is a powerful, flexible and fun way of finding the cheapest flights. We provide instant comparison on flight prices for over 670,000 routes on over 600 airlines, as well as price comparison for car hire, hotels and holidays.
Worky.com - Founder
Worky.com provides a place to market your skills to colleagues, employers and potential clients.
It's constitutes a range of tools for online profile creation, networking, groups and search engine optimisation that get you noticed.
WhatClinic.com - Non-Exec Chairman
Whatclinic.com is a healthcare search engine. We gather the information you want about health clinics worldwide and display it all comparably. We figure that you’re a busy person (with a great taste in websites!) so we want to make it quick and easy to find the information you need.
Irish Cancer Society - Heavyweight Boxer
A temporary assigment!
Trying to raise €50k for Cancer research and care.
http://www.mycharity.ie/event/white_collar_boxing_event to donate!
Asavie Limited - Non-Exec Chairman
Equipping a new breed of tele-worker with secure communications platforms
Web Reservations International - CEO and Founder
Founded Hostelworld.com, Grew to 12m visitors per month, $500MM+ total sales value, 172 countries. The best team ever !
Bought Hostels.com, Boo.com, Worldres.com.
Retired as CEO Feb 2008.
Pulled IPO in March 2008.
Sold the lot in Dec 2009.
Returned $500MM on initial €130k invested.
Coretime - CEO and Founder
Time and billing software product.
Windows or Web SAAS platform.
Sold to Sage Group 2004
Written in Delphi, on MySQL
Raven Computing - CEO and Founder
Developed mostly custom database applications for PC's.
Developed Breeze for barristers, still Irelands most popular system.
Ray Nolan's Education and Qualifications
Masters/PostGrad - Leadership for Growth
Stanford University
Higher Diploma - Electronic Engineering
K.S.C.O.T.
Ray Nolan's Additional Information
Links
- Charity Boxing --- *** Please Donate *** - http://bit.ly/ppBds7
- WhatClinic - http://Whatclinic.com
- Smartbin - http://www.smartbin.com
- SkyScanner - http://www.skyscanner.com
- Worky - http://www.worky.com
- My Page - http://www.raynolan.com
Languages
- French - Intermediate
Interests
Leinster and Ireland Rugby
Memberships
Malahide Rugby Club
Fitzwilliam tennis club
Awards
E&Y Entrepreneur of the year (emerging) 2003
Deloitte Fast 50 2003 (2nd, 49th ... Hostelworld, Coretime)
IIA Net visionary
Golden Spiders (multiple)
Ray Nolan's Recommendations
Bill Liao said
I would like to recommend Ray Nolan as a man who clearly knows how to get things done and who believes like I do that time sent raising capital is better spent making a great product and selling.