Iain Mac Donald, Co-Founder & CEO, SkillPages

Iain Mac Donald graduated from University College Dublin with a degree in Economics and Information Studies.

Iain began his career managing business development within Intergraph, a technology services provider and went on to manage business development at eHost Europe and in 2002 became Head of Operations at Solar Marketing.

In 2003 Iain founded Perlico, the home phone and broadband supplier, which grew to become one of the leading alternative providers of fixed-line telecom and broadband services in Ireland. In 2007 Iain sold Perlico to Vodafone for €70 million.

 
Iain Mac Donald, SkillPages 

Iain then established his next company, SkillPages in 2010 and is the company’s CEO. SkillPages is a skill-based social network which which helps people with useful skills to find those who need them and currently has over 5 million members worldwide.

SkillPages currently employs over 30 people, a large number of whom graduated from UCD, and has offices in Blackrock, Dublin and Palo Alto, California. SkillPages recently announced that it raised $9.5 million in a Series B round of funding from Irish VC firm ACT Venture Capital, private angel investors and the company founders. This brings the total investment in the company to date to over $18 million.

Iain is also an angel investor in technology start-ups including Startupbootcamp and Catchfree as well as a regular speaker at various tech events including F.ounders, Founders Forum and the Dublin Web Summit.

SkillPages is working closely with CLARITY, Centre for Web Sensor Technology at UCD.