New chapter: Cyber Innovate at MTU, Cork.
Founder and operator.
Now building in cybersecurity.
A career in banking, fintech and payments. Now founding his next company in cybersecurity. Based in Cork, Ireland.
A snapshot of this season.
- Build
- Cybersecurity founder at Cyber Innovate, MTU A funded, full-time venture programme in Cork. Ten months of needs-led discovery, then the company.
- Thesis
- Founding a cybersecurity company Banking, payments and security audits for digital finance all point here. The next product does too.
- Also
- Co-founder at Sigil Cryptographic verification for DAO governance.
The short version.
My career has tracked the money stack from the inside out: banking in Buenos Aires, consulting at Accenture, fintech at Kreditech across Europe and Latin America, regulated lending at Mash Group in Luxembourg, and finally the security layer that underpins them.
The security thread started at Sub7 Security, the Luxembourg firm I co-founded. For three years we delivered security audits and penetration testing for digital finance platforms, where a missed flaw means the funds are gone. We were named a top-3 startup at Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg 2022. Since then I have shipped production AI agents on the Claude API stack and run Irish market entry for an AI software company.
Today I am in Cork on MTU's Cyber Innovate programme, a funded, full-time postgraduate programme for founding cybersecurity companies. I work in English and Spanish. The next company gets built here.
Building, and built.
Ten months inside Cork's cyber cluster to found a security company properly. Needs-led discovery with operators and researchers before any build.
Security audits and penetration testing for digital finance platforms, where a missed flaw has an immediate and irreversible price. Named a top-3 startup at Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg 2022.
Cryptographic verification tooling for DAO governance. On-chain votes proven to match off-chain intent. Built with React, Vite and Cloudflare Workers across thirty plus jurisdictions.
Where I have been.
→ Now
Full-time postgraduate venture programme co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the EU. Needs-led discovery across the security industry, building toward the next company.
2026
Led Ireland market entry for AI-powered real estate agents. SEO strategy, partnership development, deal closing in a fast-moving startup.
2026
Built an AI phone assistant SaaS for German tradespeople. Full stack: product, engineering, marketing, sales. Next.js, Vapi, Stripe, Neon.
2025
Security audits and penetration testing for digital finance platforms. Wound down cleanly at the end of 2025.
2022
Scaled European operations for a fintech infrastructure company. Partnerships, regulatory work, enterprise sales.
2020
Chief Sales Officer of the pan-Nordic lending group, additionally appointed Managing Director and legal representative of Mash Finance, the group's regulated lending entity. Grew the loan portfolio 200% in six months.
2017
Opened and ran markets across Mexico, Peru and Spain for one of Europe's most-funded fintech startups. Full country P and L.
2013
Engagement finance for Fortune 500 clients out of Buenos Aires. Co-negotiated a deal worth over USD 80 million. Where the operational discipline started.
Let us talk.
Conversations welcome. Cybersecurity, a question about Cyber Innovate, or scaling notes from emerging markets. The chat button answers the quick ones.