Our Speakers:


Enda Gunnell, CEO, Pinergy 

Enda Gunnell is a Chartered Accountant by profession and had a successful career with Mazars spending over 20 years with the firm from auditing to corporate finance. When he was the Managing Partner of the Corporate Finance division he got the idea of starting his own business as he wanted to move from the touchline onto the pitch. In 2013, Pinergy was launched as a new alternative in an energy sector which had seen little disruption since the foundation of the State. Initially successfully competing in the Pay as You Go residential market, today Pinergy is the leading smart energy supplier helping businesses, homes, EV drivers and Farms to create a sustainable energy future

Eamon Conway, Managing Director, Climote

Eamon  Conway  is Managing Director and co Founder of  Ireland’s  largest domestic “ smart” energy controls business   climote. 
climote  have to date deployed  approximately 100,000 of  their award winning  remote heating control hub to homes across Ireland and UK and have  partnerships with  leading energy utilities such as ESB , SSE , Iberdrola, and Octopus  Energy amongst others . climote are developing a  new range of  residential  products and services designed to facilitate  the need for countries  to   decarbonise  at scale  and make it easy for consumers  to be part of the solution. 
Eamon  assumes responsibility for  commercial, operations and finance functions within climote . Previously Eamon was  MD of   Honeywell’s electrical division in Ireland and prior to that role  assumed the position of Director of Marketing  with UK ‘s largest shower manufacturer  Mira Showers .
He is a keen Gaa   and soccer fan avidly following the fortunes of Tyrone Gaa and Liverpool FC . 
Anne Butterly, Founder & CEO, Easydry

Easydry Founder and CEO Anne Butterly invented what became Easydry towelling system in 2003 while living with six other girls in a flat in Dublin.
 
Fed up with endless piles of soggy, stained towels left by her flatmates after they had coloured their hair, she went looking for an alternative. Surprised to find there wasn’t one, she decided to invent her own solution – an absorbent and disposable towel.
 
A Master’s graduate of one of Ireland’s most prestigious colleges, the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, Anne realised that any disposable towel had to be eco-friendly, for business as well as environmental reasons. So she set about developing a product that was robust and affordable, yet with impeccable green credentials. Initially focusing her efforts on the consumer market, she soon realised that towel-dependent businesses, such as hair, beauty and healthcare, were desperate for a disposable product that would save them time and money, without creating an ecological disaster like that of plastic carrier bags.