Leadership Team
Tim Murphy, Founder & CEO
A successful entrepreneur, with over 20 years experience in strategic sales and marketing, Tim Murphy founded Strencom in 2000. His vision was to provide quality, high-end connectivity solutions to corporates in Ireland and UK, and to ensure market-leading customer service in the area of managed networks, and more recently, cloud computing.Having previously held senior roles with multinationals such as Esat telecom, now BT Ireland and UPS Ireland, Tim had driven growth in these organisations, managing sales and customer relationships with leading multinationals and global corporations based in Ireland. His experience with these organisations, and the ability to understand their needs and deliver quality solutions, has ensured exponential growth at Strencom for over 10 years. Strencom has been recognised nationally and internationally by industry awards, management awards and the technology sector, including Deloitte Fast 50 [Europe Awards], ICT Excellence Awards [Ireland] and both Cork Company of the Year.A graduate of Stanford School of Business, and the Enterprise Ireland Leadership for Growth programme, Tim is responsible for strategy at Strencom, and is involved in new product development and management of the growing team at Strencom.
SEAN FLOOD, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Sean Flood joined Strencom in early 2006 as Operations Director, with responsibility for Finance, Operations,Solution Delivery and Strategic Development. Prior to Sean’s move to Strencom, he spent 5 years with Tiscali Business Services (UK Division), working in the UK market in IT network services. Initially Sean was responsible for the integration of the business divisions of several acquired companies. He successfully launched Tiscali into the IPVPN market in 2003, andmanaged the Channel Partner Sales team as Sales Director for the final 3 years. Prior to Tiscali, Sean has 15 years multinational experience in various senior level financial and operational management roles. Sean is a Fellow of Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, and holds an MBA from Cranfield University in 2000, a top 30 MBA Program.
Ed Ronayne, IT Director
Ed Ronayne joined the Strencom team in 2003 as IT Manager with hands on responsibility for all technical aspects of the running of the network.He now serves as the IT Director & NOC Managerwith responsibility for overseeing network management,customer technical support and new product development and implementation.Ed obtained a degree in IP Data Networking from Cork Institute of Technology in 2001 and has 12 years technical experience in IP technology and 5 Years management experience in technical support desks. Prior to joining Strencom Ed worked as IT Manager for both International and indigenous companies based in Ireland.
Dan croke, sales Director
In his role, Dan will be responsible for developing business strategies that will open up new market opportunities for Strencom’s next generation data network (NGN), and Infrastructure
as a service (IaaS) solution in Ireland and the UK. Dan has a wealth of experience in the ICT industry with more than twenty years experience in senior sales and management roles in leading technology companies in Ireland, Canada and Bermuda. He joins Strencom from a&o Ireland where he was sales director for five years. Prior to this, Dan worked for Esat/BT for seven years, where he was sales director. He brings extensive strategic sales expertise to his new role that will support and deliver Strencom’s growth targets. Dan is a graduate of Cambrian College in Canada with a marketing and business studies diploma. He is also a certified VMware sales professional, Cisco security sales specialist and Symantec sales expert.
Eoin Gilley, non-executive director
Eoin was appointed Non-Executive Director in January 2011. Eoin Gilley has held senior positions in various multi-nationals including Apple, Artysen (MD of European Operations) and Parthus Technologies (COO) & Quarterdeck International (COO). As Non-Executive Director of Strencom, Eoin’s role is to provide impartial advice and support to the senior management team in areas of strategy development and execution, sales management and company growth. Eoin has a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Cork Institute of Technology and an MBA from Fordham University New York where he also received the Dean’s Award for Excellence.