Founding Team

Who We Are

Naomh McElhatton

CEO

Listed by the Irish Times as one of Irelands Top 5 Entrepreneurs to watch. Naomh is a successful entrepreneur with a number of exits under her belt. With vast experience in selling into global markets. Naomh is responsible for driving the strategic planning, business development and identifying export markets for Stimul.ai. Naomh's role is to build positive relationships with stakeholders and other healthcare leaders, to help drive the initiative of reducing hospital waiting lists globally. Naomh is also is a TED speaker, STEM Ambassador, guest lecturer at Ulster University and Curator of the SheSaidClub.

Email: naomh@stimul.ai

Professor Barry O'Sullivan

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Professor Barry O'Sullivan, FAAAI, FEurAI, FIAE, FICS, MRIA is an award-winning academic with more than 25 years experience working in artificial intelligence. He is co-founder and Chief AI Officer at Stimul.ai. He is a full professor at the School of Computer Science & IT at University College Cork and a member of its Governing Body. He is founding Director of both the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCC and Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. In July 2018 Barry was appointed Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. He is a Fellow and a past President of the European AI Association. He is also a Fellow and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He chairs the Advisory Board of the GRACE project at Europol, and advises the Leuven.ai institute at KULeuven (Belgium) and the Computational Sustainability Network, a network of universities in the USA. In 2019 Professor O’Sullivan was appointed by Ireland’s Minister for Health to the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee. In 2020 he was appointed Chair of the Oversight Board of Health Data Research UK (North), led by the University of Liverpool. In 2021 he was, again, appointed by the Minister for Health as Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee for Medical Devices. Barry has been involved in winning over €300m in R&D funding.

Email: barry@stimul.ai