Building scalable software architectures for Digital Asset Management.
Aetopia specialises in building functionally rich, scalable Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions for enterprise clients primarily in the Newspapers, Photo Agencies and Archiving sectors. Key clients include some of the largest publishing companies in Europe, as well as major photographic agencies. In 2010 and 2011, Aetopia was ranked by Deloitte Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in Ireland.
We are based at the ECIT institute, Queens University Belfast, a leading centre for research in Content Based Image Retrieval.
Mark McCusker
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Chairman
Mark has over 25 years experience in the IT sector as a consultant and CEO. He is has been the CEO of Texthelp Systems Ltd since 1998, during which time Texthelp has grown to become a world leader in its chosen markets.
Aidan McGrath
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CEO
Aidan is co-founder and CEO of Aetopia. He has "far too much" experience in the IT sector, in General Management, Consultancy (with Andersen Consulting) Marketing, Sales Management and Sales Training.
Mark Gowdy
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CTO
Mark is co-founder and CTO of Aetopia He has over 18 years experience in developing scalable web based applications.
Andrew Hunter
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Non-executive Director
Andrew is the former managing partner of Accenture Ireland, and a former international managing partner in an industry vertical Market. Since leaving Accenture he has been part of three start up companies, and a start up non-profit. He plays an active role as a non-executive Director in Aetopia (since 2007) with particular interest in product development, customer delivery and Finance.
Stephen McAreavey
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Non-executive Director
Stephen is a Senior Director of Product Management at Kana Inc. Prior to Kana, he worked for London-based systems integrator Princeton Consulting, creating solutions for blue-chip clients in the UK and abroad.