Show Notes
Barry O’Callaghan is the Chairman and CEO of AKLO Capital (a private investment office)
His story is growing a small educational software company, Riverdeep, into the largest K-12 publishing company in the US educational system.
After getting a law degree from Trinity College he joined an investment bank - first in the London office, then 2 Hong Kong , before moving to New York City to work at Salomon Smith Barney near the beginning of the dot-com bubble.
There he helped a few internet companies to go public and realised he was good at finance.
These days he’s involved in a wide range of his own businesses from hospitality to not for profit enterprises in Ireland and elsewhere.
He left CWC in 1987 and originally hails from Mitchelstown.
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Our guest is one of the early Alberto Hurtado Bursary graduates, who entered the Jesuit noviciate in Innsbruck this September.
Adam MacNulty is President and Client Portfolio Manager, Brandes Investment Partners (Europe) based in Dublin