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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

Experienced pharma engineer turned SaaS CEO.

Brian Ahearne

cio, co-founder

Expert software engineer and university lecturer.

Kevin Fitzgerald

cpo, co-founder

Former Pfizer engineer and detail-oriented leader.

Hugh Kavanagh

cfo

Chartered accountant with expansive financial senior leadership experience.

Keith Holmes

CTO

Deep senior leadership experience in global tech organizations.

Fiona McCarthy

Chief people & culture officer

Extensive experience in running global organizations.

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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Meet the Board

Our non-executive directors

We are guided by directors experienced in investment, government, and technology.

Ian Ainsworth

chairman

Wade Dawe

DIRECTOR

Nutan Behki

DIRECTOR

Carol Leaman

DIRECTOR

Kneat History

Our digital validation journey

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

Founding

2007 – 2011
  • Vision to automate validation is launched
  • Initial funding is secured
  • Team of developers 
and pharma experts 
is assembled

Development

2012 – 2015
  • Many prototypes and beta releases
  • 900,000 lines of purpose-built code written
  • Kneat is ISO 9001 
certified
  • First customers begin deployment

Strong growth

2016 – 2019
  • Kneat publicly listed on TSX under KSI
  • 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, Americas and Asia
  • Kneat Academy is formed

Strong growth

2020 & beyond
  • Kneat is ISO 27001 certified
  • Kneat relocates to expanded Europe HQ
  • Majority of the top 20 Life science companies implement Kneat
  • Kneat launches industry’s largest 
annual validation event, VALIDATE
  • Kneat wins four consecutive 
Deloitte Ireland Fast 50 awards

Our memberships & accreditations

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

Accreditations & Memberships

ISPE

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

NSAI

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

ISO

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