David Murphy

David is the CEO of ERINN and a Co-Founder. David has over 23 years experience in funding procurement, science communication and research management within the European research landscape.

Michael Papapetrou

Michael is a co-founder and Execurtive Director at ERINN with responsibility for all pre-award services. He has over 20 years’ experience in research and innovation (R&I), having worked in developing concepts, putting together consortia, raising funds and managing R&I projects. Michael has coordinated 10 European funded projects in the fields of clean energy and alternative water sources and has been directly involved in hundreds of other projects, proposals and grant funding courses. He co-founcded the company ResourSEAs that is bringing to the market results from a European project on critical raw materials, he has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and he is a co-inventor of 6 patents.

Laura Richardson

Laura is a professional accountant with diverse practical experience across multiple sectors and a demonstrable record of achievement in driving commercial success in complex organisations, implementing contemporary financial management practices and business systems. She has experience in Multinational organisations, Health and Education sectors at senior level in strategic development, change management and leadership. Laura is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and holds and International Executive MBA from Smurfit Graduate Business School at UCD.

Marieke Reuver

Marieke has held leading roles in knowledge management and transfer, dissemination, communication and stakeholder engagement of large European science projects (mainly FP7, H2020) for almost 15 years. She oversees a dedicated team of project officers currently working on 10 EU-funded projects covering from sustainable aquaculture and the microbiome to CO2 conversion into value-added products. As work package lead for 25 EU-funded projects Marieke has vast experience of the project lifecycle, from successful application writing to final exploitation activities. She chairs several IPR and Innovation Management Boards to support the protection, promotion and exploitation of project results. Marieke has a background in Animal Science (MSc) with an aquaculture specialisation.

Reid Hole

Dr Reid Hole is a Director and Co-Founder of ERINN. A former Prorector of research at Nord University (Norway), he has considerable international industry and academic experience, most notably in the aquaculture sector. Reid has in addition held managerial positions in Nutreco International B.V. (Netherlands) for over 20 years, ensuring its success as a global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed.

Having served as a board member for organisations across both private and public sectors, he has utilised this knowledge to oversee several merger and acquisition processes, including two flotations.

Reid is leading on the ERINN strategy, providing mentoring to senior staff and exploring new opportunities.

Cliona Ni Cheallachain

Cliona has over nine years’ experience in the areas of project management and knowledge transfer as well as all areas of proposal development. She has been the project manager for several large-scale European and nationally funded projects and has extensive experience in delivering knowledge transfer projects across multiple sectors. She is experienced in funding procurement as well as SME support including application writing for H2020 and SME instruments. She has also organised multiple large-scale multidisciplinary stakeholder events, including providing facilitation support.

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