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Niall Olden B.Comm. ACMA
Managing Partner, Kernel Capital
Non Executive Director, Seroba Kernel

Niall Olden

Niall Olden has extensive national and international business development experience. He is Founder and Managing Partner of Kernel Capital and a Non Executive Director of associate company Seroba Kernel Life Sciences Ltd. He has held a wide range of non executive directorships across general industry, technology and life science companies. His current directorships include Stokes Bio, MP Stor, Straatum Processware, Chip Sensors, Mini Storage Holdings and Intune Networks.

Niall was a member of the 1988 Jefferson Smurfit plc ‘Graduate Program’. He remained with the firm working in Ireland and the UK, until 1994 when he was appointed General Manager of a ‘Clondalkin Group plc’ company. Thereafter in 1997 he joined Piercom a venture capital backed software company, where he was Finance Director. In 1999 he founded Kernel Capital a firm which, with its associate company Seroba Kernel Life Science Ltd has in excess of €190m in active venture capital funds under management.

Niall has a BComm, 1988, from the National University of Ireland, Cork. He is a Chartered Management Accountant, 1994. He has an MSc International Business, 2007, from Dublin University (Trinity College). He is an Alumni of the Global Business Program, 2006, IMD International (Switzerland). A firm believer in life long learning he has participated in Business Development courses at Babson College, (Boston) in 2007 and Dublin Institute of Technology in 2008.

Kernel Management Partners Limited, trading as Kernel Capital, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.