Elaine Coughlan – Partner, Dublin

Elaine has over 15 years operational experience in technology companies with extensive merger and acquisition experience. She has been involved in three successful initial public offerings and two secondary offerings raising more than $1.6 billion in capital for various companies. She served as the CFO of semiconductor company Parthus Technologies plc (now CEVA Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company), from 1999 to 2003. Most recently she was a director and co-founder of GloNav, a GPS semiconductor portfolio company which was sold to NXP in January 2008 for $110 million.

Before Parthus and CEVA, Elaine worked for IONA Technologies plc, where she oversaw its initial public offering on NASDAQ in 1997 and held senior financial positions including corporate controller and vice president of finance. Prior to that she was based in California from 1994 to 1996 with CBT Systems plc, where she co-led its initial public offering and secondary offering on NASDAQ. Elaine was an international senior audit manager with Ernst & Young specializing in advising SEC registered clients in the technology sector. Elaine is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and is currently on the board of Acision.