WeScale Mentor Directory
Empowering women founders across the island to scale with confidence, develop and enhance their strategy, and build their community.
Author & Networking StrategistNew York, US
As a networking strategist I guide ambitious entrepreneurs and professionals to what’s possible (i.e. enhanced business development, engaging investors and advisory boards, connecting with potential collaborators, developing partnerships)when they invest intentionally and purposefully in their relationships.
Founder of Hard Yards
Derry, Northern Ireland
I co-founded Elemental Software, scaled it into national NHS and local authority adoption, and exited to the largest UK-headquartered software house. Along the way, I learned that mission-led technology needs more than ambition and funding. It needs operational discipline, clarity under pressure, and founders willing to evolve.
Focus Academy -Founder/Managing PartnerSan Francisco, US
I’m a founder, strategist, and connector working at the intersection of deep tech and market expansion. I help emerging biotech and health innovation companies turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact through commercialization strategy, go-to-market positioning, and global partnership development.
Head of Medical Sciences & Therapeutic Strategy, VLSIreland
Senior leader with 15+ years of experience spanning global pharma, CROs, and healthcare innovation ecosystems. Proven expertise in cross-functional enterprise leadership, integrating deep scientific knowledge with executive business acumen to shape evidence-based strategy, strengthen client partnerships, and drive measurable portfolio impact.
Co-Founder & Senior Partner, Connect’Innov | Founder & CEO, World Bio ConsultingTunis, Tunisia and Marseille, France
I am a Senior Innovation & Life Sciences expert with over 15 years of experience supporting startups, research teams and innovation ecosystems across Europe and Africa. I mentor founders on strategy, scaling, fundraising and internationalisation, with particular expertise in deeptech and health-related ventures. I also serve as an evaluator and advisor in European innovation programmes.
AuthorLondon, UK
A world-renowned speaker, writer, and authority on the future of work, Monica Parker has spent decades helping people discover how to lead and live wonderfully. Author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller THE POWER OF WONDER. Researching how altered states of wonder make us better leaders.
Owner ShineNorth West Mayo, Ireland
Executive and Business Coach.
Large account, complex Sales, and value proposition articulation specialist.
Founder and CEO of Satori Accounting.Derry, Northern Ireland
I help digital‑first companies turn accounting from a chore into a growth driver. I specialise in bringing real‑time clarity to your numbers—so you can see exactly how cash flows through your business, identify which channels are profitable, and make confident decisions.
Human Resources Consultant & Advisor with Instant HR SolutionsWaterford, Ireland
C-suite human capital leader with deep global experience partnering with private equity sponsors and executive teams to drive value creation. Proven track record building and scaling high-impact HR functions across finance, energy, edtech, legal tech and professional services in complex, growth-oriented and transaction-driven environments.
Chair, Furthr. Consultant/Associate with Green Point Consultancy, Rethink Digital AdvisoryDublin, Ireland.
Deirdre is a Business Mentor, Advisor & Consultant, with a focus on sustainable growth strategies, innovation, digitization and operational excellence. She was a tech company co-founder and CEO and led the business to a successful exit. Deirdre is a Chartered Director of the IoD and serves on the boards of Furthr, BRE Global Ireland, Anthropic AI Ireland and Kinaxis Ireland and previously on the NSAI board and G-P Ireland.
CEO - Health Innovation Research Alliance - NIBelfast, Northern Ireland
Champion for the Health and Life Science sector Industrial. Pharmacologist drug discovery Organisation founder of regional NI not-for-profit Life sciences cluster. Business & Strategy leader, bringing experience from Pharma, Biotech: BD, global alliances, due diligence and commercialisation. I want to make a real contribution to society. Passionate about driving health innovation and service transformation. Combining translational thinking with discovery, digital and diagnostics.
Chair, Furthr. Chair of EOI, Trustee for Antrim Enterprise, MentorBelfast, Northern Ireland
Karen Maguire is a Northern Ireland–based entrepreneur, mentor and advocate for employee ownership. She founded and scaled Relinea into a leading UK and Ireland supplier before transitioning the company to employee ownership, and now serves as Chair of Employee Ownership Ireland while mentoring founders and leaders through Invest NI and other programmes. Alongside this, she is building Rockhall Foods and developing a portfolio career that blends entrepreneurship, coaching and wellbeing through Pilates.
Geraldine Lavin is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC-AF), educator and co-founder of 3rd i Ltd with more than 30 years’ experience helping SME leaders sharpen strategy, strengthen capability and deliver sustainable growth across sectors, including education and training development. She brings practical, research-informed mentoring and facilitation to ambitious founders ready to launch. Geraldine’s work bridges academic insight and real-world practice to help founders with the foundation for their business.
Director, 3rd i & Lecturer, MU & UCDGreater Dublin, Ireland
Geraldine Lavin
Policy in Practice / Head of Brand and Communications
Donegal, Ireland
Head of Brand and Communications and founding team member, Policy in Practice | Specialist in building marketing functions for start-ups.
AgriFood Tech Development Consultant, Alpha Omega ConsultantsCo. Leitrim, Ireland
Oonagh Monahan is a Chartered Food Scientist and works as a consultant, mentor and trainer specialising in food business development and innovation. With over 30 years’ experience in the food sector, Oonagh works with producers across the island of Ireland and throughout Europe, from start-up through to growth and export. Oonagh previously worked for the Kerry Group (Grove Turkeys) and Premier Foods (Manor Bakeries). To date, she has worked with over food & drink 350 food producers, many of whom can be found on supermarket shelves of the multiple retailers in Ireland and the UK. Oonagh also works at the interface of the food industry and Academia, at the forefront of innovation, technology transfer and collaboration. Her best-selling book “More Money for Jam – the Essential Guide to Starting Your Own Food Business”, 3rd Edn., is published by Oak Tree Press and is widely available.
Mentor and Business Coach, Strategy and Marketing Advisor at Orily Pratt Strategy and Marketing ABSweden
Orily is an expert business professional committed to guiding brands towards excellence, leveraging long-standing experience and a passion for innovation to create successful commercial strategies and nurture businesses that aim to make a tangible impact in their industries. Orily’s extensive expertise was acquired through leading high-impact roles and advising international clients across the healthcare, MedTech, Agrifood, and ESG sectors, specialising in business and commercial strategy, branding and global marketing, investor readiness, and growth strategies, thereby guiding innovative brands towards market excellence.
Director/ PartnerIreland
Values driven, strategic and innovative business and board advisor, with over 20 years international experience digitally transforming and scaling B2C and B2B businesses (startups, SMEs, corporates) delivering complex, company-wide transformations for growth across business/ revenue models, commercialisation, digitalisation, customer experience, operations, products, services, SaaS and technology - global markets, multiple industries, multilingual. Passionate about Rethinking businesses, collaboration, diversity, making a difference and turning ideas into reality.
Managing DirectorBelfast, Northern Ireland
Now I run Galvia Digital, a Belfast-based software company. We build IoT setups, smart apps, and full platforms for international deployment in both B2B and B2C contexts. We also take on modernizing clunky legacy systems no one else wants to touch. Proof of concepts, team augmentation, full rebuilds and project rescues.
ConsultantWicklow, Ireland
15+ years of International Marketing and commercial experience helping brands build their profiles and value both locally and internationally. I have also successfully supported brands in building for acquisition.
Director of People Forward Ireland
Sinead Kieran is an executive coach and founder of People Forward, with over 20 years’ experience in senior operational and leadership roles across global organisations including PayPal, Siemens and Symantec. She currently coaches female founders and senior female leaders as they scale, helping them strengthen confidence, strategic thinking and operational capability while building sustainable, high-performing teams.
Michelle is the founder of Hire Profit Ability. She has 20+ years of experience across Multinationals and Growth companies. She helps CEOs & founders with strategic financial insights to drive growth & profitability.
Fractional CFO - Hire Profit AbilityGalway, Ireland
Rebecca is the founder and owner of Wise Sherpa. She has a background working for major global professional and financial services organisations, including latterly for EY, where she was a global director specialising in business strategy, focusing on people and organisational change and where she developed well-honed coaching, consulting and mentoring skills.
Principal Consultant, Wise SherpaLondon, UK