About Us

Our path to transformation

We focus on quality and efficiency — to revolutionize validation for the world’s leading life sciences companies.

Our Mission

Why we do what we do

Bringing speed, intelligence, quality, and compliance to reduce inefficiency, error, and risk.

our mission

Helping Life Sciences to develop, manufacture, and deliver therapies to their patients to the highest safety standard.

Our Founders & Leaders

The executives driving customer value

We are founded and led by life sciences and software industry experts.

Eddie Ryan

CEO, CO-FOUNDER

CEO of Kneat, digital validation software & experienced pharma engineer turned SaaS CEO.

Brian Ahearne

Director, Information Security
& IT Operations, co-founder

Expert software engineer and university lecturer.

Kevin Fitzgerald

CINO, co-founder

Former Pfizer engineer and detail-oriented leader.

Dave O'Reilly

cfo

Strategic finance leader practiced in scaling growth companies internationally.

Keith Holmes

CTO

Deep senior leadership experience in global tech organizations.

Fiona McCarthy

Chief people & culture officer

Extensive experience in running global organizations.

Donal O'Sullivan

CPO

Veteran global software product leader of over 25 years.

Jacob Hahn Michelsen

svp, sales & marketing

Senior sales leader with a proven track record for revenue generation.

Colum McNamara

svp, global operations

Growth-focused leader with extensive experience scaling operations.

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Kneat History

Our digital validation journey

8 years of purpose-built development and testing before customer delivery — to ensure maximum data integrity.

Founding

2007 – 2015

Vision to automate validation launched, backed by initial funding
Team of developers and pharma experts assembled
900,000 lines of purpose-built code written
Prototypes and beta releases lead to first customer deployments

Proven

2016 - 2019

Tier 1 biopharma completes global deployment
Tier 1 biotech deploys end-to-end digital validation at $1B facility
Kneat expands to support demand in Europe, the Americas, and Asia
Kneat Academy formed

Scaled

2020 - 2023

Majority of the top 20 life sciences companies implement Kneat
VALIDATE launches as the industry's largest annual validation event
Four consecutive Deloitte Ireland Fast 50 awards

Trusted

2024 & beyond

Recognized as the digital validation category leader by multiple independent review sites
9 of the top 10 global life sciences companies choose Kneat
Wins Stevie Award for outstanding customer service
Kneat joins the Thoma Bravo portfolio

Our memberships & accreditations

We are certified, trusted partners for your information and security.

We are a platinum member of the ISPE, working together to educate and empower the industry.

We are certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 by the National Standards Association of Ireland (NSAI).

We are certified to ISO/IEC 9001:2015 for world-leading QMS operation.