Business Growth
Supporting business growth and the development of new innovations and solutions.
The “Business Growth” Focus Area aims to support businesses in starting up, scaling, and innovating.
It includes five key initiatives:
- Unlocking Collaborative Business Opportunities
- Supporting Industry RD&I
- Creating a Cybersecurity Start-Up Ecosystem
- Exports – International Business Opportunities
- Improved Cybersecurity for SMEs
Committee Members:
A Business Growth Committee provides the strategic direction for the BG activities. It is made up of senior representatives (C-Suite) from Irish cybersecurity companies.
David McNamara,
CEO, CommSec – BG WG CHAIR
Colin Reid,
Commercial Director, Threatscape – BG WG VICE CHAIR
Rahim Jina,
Co-Founder & COO, Edgescan – BG WG VICE CHAIR
Colm Healy,
CEO, Corrata
Dr. Valerie Lyons,
Executive Director & COO, BH Consulting
Patricia Shields,
CEO & Co-Founder, Cyber Cert Labs
Activities
Cyber Ireland Start-up Forum
Cyber Ireland’s Start-up Forum aims to build a community of CEOs and Founders or Co-Founders cybersecurity start-up leads in Ireland to create a trusted community that can learn from each other, share information, discuss common challenges and solutions, meet peers, and overall help the development of early-stage companies in Ireland.
EU Funding Working Group
Cyber Ireland’s EU Funding Working Group (WG) assists organisations, -particularly Cybersecurity SMEs, to identify and secure EU funding effectively.
Cyber Security Grants
Irish companies exporting must be internationally competitive and digitally focused. Cyber security is critical to protect a company and its customers, as well as being a value-add and differentiator for companies internationally. New grants are being launched by Enterprise Ireland (EI) – Cyber Review Grant – and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – Cyber Improvement Grant – to improve Irish companies’ cyber security.
2025 Activities Overview
Get Involved:
Each Cyber Ireland member has a nominated point of contact for the Business Growth Focus Area and mailing list. If you’d like to update this, please contact: Manuel.PreciosoRuiz@cyberireland.ie
As a Cyber Ireland member, you can participate and contribute to the Business Growth Activities by:
- Attend: our Business Growth events throughout the year. Your organisation’s point of contact will receive the direct invitation.
- Speak: Speak at one of our events, webinars or meetings on best practices relating to business growth.
- Feedback & Contribute: Provide feedback on the Business Growth activities and volunteer to contribute to one of the activities through our BG Survey
- Join the committee: If you believe you can lead one of the BG initiatives and contribute to our goal please leave your details in our BG Survey