Paddy Holahan is founder and Chief Executive Officer of NewBay Software.

Previously, he was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for Baltimore Technologies (London:BLM). Having joined Baltimore Technologies in 1996, he was a key member of the executive management team that rapidly grew the company from a small private company to a public company valued at over $10bn. During his tenure, Baltimore Technologies made 5 acquisitions worth in excess of $500m, completed its NASDAQ public listing, employed over 1400 employees and had annual revenues of over $100m. He left Baltimore Technologies in May 2001.

Prior to his role at Baltimore Technologies, Paddy was co-founder and CEO of East Coast Software, a private software company specialising in PC utility software.

He is a frequent speaker on technology, e-commerce, e-business and the software industry in general and has written numerous articles for national and international publications. Paddy has testified to the Irish Parliament on e-commerce policy and issues and has also testified to a US congressional sub-committee regarding encryption policies. Paddy is also a non-executive director of Propylon Ltd and Web Reservations International Ltd (hostelworld.com)

Paddy received a first-class honours degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.