Lorraine Corcoran
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Lorraine set up Afanite in March 2013 so that she could use her extensive commercial experience and her passion for non-profits to enhance social impact. Exposure to the non-profit world through volunteering and academic research in her Masters led her to explore how the for-profit, non-profit and public worlds can mutually benefit from a better working relationship.
Lorraine has developed significant expertise in managing and implementing initiatives, in particular in the areas of strategy and policy, mergers and collaboration, and governance. In 2024, Lorraine was re-appointed Chair of the Credit Union Advisory Committee by the Minister for Finance for a third term.
Lorraine is Chair of Microfinance Ireland and a founder and Director of Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin with an honours BA in Economics and Geography and Masters of Literature. She also holds a Masters in International Relations from DCU. She continues to undertake executive development by completing a Diploma in Corporate Governance in 2024 and undertaking executive education at the University of Texas, Austin and the Harvard Kennedy School, Massachusetts.
Richard Bryce
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Richard Bryce is software and tech entrepreneur with more than twenty years of software and start-up experience. His primary roles have been at CEO and co-founder levels during the build phase of venture-backed start-ups in Ireland and the US.
During that time he’s done just about everything you’d expect in a scaling business: bringing new products to market, opening up new markets, finding and building the team, winning customers, raising money, M&A on both the buy and sell side, and running the P&L.
Richard is a Management Science and Information Systems Studies graduate of Trinity College Dublin and also completed a 12-month Leadership course at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.