Barry O’Callaghan is the Chairman and CEO of AKLO Capital (a private investment office)
His story is growing a small educational software company, Riverdeep, into the largest K-12 publishing company in the US educational system.
After getting a law degree from Trinity College he joined an investment bank - first in the London office, then 2 Hong Kong , before moving to New York City to work at Salomon Smith Barney near the beginning of the dot-com bubble.
There he helped a few internet companies to go public and realised he was good at finance.
These days he’s involved in a wide range of his own businesses from hospitality to not for profit enterprises in Ireland and elsewhere.
He left CWC in 1987 and originally hails from Mitchelstown.
