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With over 20 years industry experience, Brendan Sheppard is the driving force behind SmartFactory. Throughout his Engineering career, Brendan has worked with many leading multi-nationals such as Proctor & Gamble, Accantia, Tambrands & Boeing.

Vincent Sheridan is a Chartered Accountant by profession and is a former Presidant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He was Group CEO of the Norwich Union Insurance Group in Ireland for 10 years and subsequently CEO of VHI Healthcare for 8 years up to his retirement in 2008. He served as a Director of the Irish Stock Exchange for 9 years and is currently on the Board of a number of companies, mainly in the Financial Services sector.

John brings 25 years Financial Control experience having worked in the Engineering, Oil and the Food and Drinks sectors both locally and Internationally.

ACCA and MBA qualified, with SME and Multinational exposure, his focus is on profit improvement with specific emphasis on efficiency, systems improvement, team development and cost control.

With many years experience of software development including design, deployment, testing and support of solutions for numerous multi-national customers, Rakendra is an experienced and innovative MES Software Engineer.

Stefan Sauter is a network engineer with particular experience in Wireless networking solutions and has designed and commissioned industrial WLAN solutions for the world’s largest real-time automation projects in all major automotive and logistic industries.

Stefan has over nine years experience at Siemens and while staying dedicated to their SCALANCE-based networking, with SmartFactory Stefan continues his passion for service and professionalism. He will lead the provision of industrial network consulting, commissioning and training as part of SmartFactory’s Digitalisation solutions.