Dave Kearney

A product & technology leader with 17 years' experience building teams and bringing innovative SaaS products to market, including 11 years as a founder/CEO. I deliver exceptional products by ensuring that superior customer research is connected to a highly efficient software development process.

I have also run many other areas of company operations at different times including fundraising, financial modelling, data & analytics, sales, digital marketing and customer support.

Founder & CEO - Champion's Mind

2019 - 2022

• Designed the highest rated and most downloaded sport psychology app in both the App and Play stores (4.8/5 and 4.7/5 respectively).
• Recruited a sport psychologist to 17 Olympic gold medalists as co-founder.
• Completed a €110,000 funding round.
• Executed sales and marketing campaigns that acquired 2000+ customers including 50+ US college sports teams.

Founder & CEO - FluidUI.com

2011 - Present

• Coded the first version of FluidUI.com, a SaaS mobile app design tool.
• Hired the development and QA teams to continue developing the platform.
• Closed pre-seed and seed funding rounds of over €550k.
• Completed social media, paid and organic marketing campaigns to acquire 25k customers in 130+ countries.
• Managed all of the other areas of the business including product design, marketing, customer support and finance.

Head of Development - Modeva

2005 - 2011

• Built and led the largest department in the company (incorporating UX, software development and QA teams).
• Implemented software development best practice including requirements gathering, signoffs, prototyping, agile, kanban, scrum.
• Project managed across departments to deliver key product launches.
• Created a bespoke analytics platform that analysed marketing spend for web, tv, print and mobile advertising in real time.
• Successfully applied for hundreds of thousands of euro in both Enterprise Ireland funding and R&D tax credits.

Education

B.A. Computers, Linguistics and French (2003)

I wrote an A.I. that could play Cluedo and chatted with you as you played.
Trinity College Dublin.