Kieran is the CEO of Realta Fusion, an early-stage company developing fusion energy for applications in industrial process heat and power. He has extensive experience in start-ups and venture capital, particularly in the areas of energy, climatetech, sustainable ag & food and industrial biotech. Kieran spent the first decade of his career in the chemical industry in a range of technical and commercial roles across the globe – in Argentina, Germany, the UK and the USA. Following that, he moved into start-ups and worked on advanced fuels, bioplastics (including the development of the first 100% bio-based Coca-Cola bottle), waste-to-energy technologies, and now fusion energy.

In 2017, he launched the $24M Ireland Agtech Fund in his native country – a partnership between Finistere Ventures and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kieran served on the board of numerous start-ups and has mentored innovators from academia as they commercialized technology emerging from their research. He has patents in biological crop protection and quantum computing. Kieran has a degree in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University where he was an Arjay
Miller Scholar.