Clare Hughes

Clare is the co-founder and CEO of Telenostic. Prior to founding Telenostic, Clare founded two other successful pharmaceutical companies: CF Pharma, a developer of pharmaceutical and veterinary products, and NutriScience, a producer of nutraceuticals for the veterinary market, which she sold to the Belgian veterinary pharmaceutical company, Ecuphar.

Clare hails from the famous Hughes dynasty, renowned throughout the world as producers of top sport horses, showjumpers and racehorses. Clare holds a degree in pharmacy.

Trish is the co-founder and Product Development Director at Telenostic. Trish has over 15 years’ experience in the veterinary medicine market establishing and operating point of care facilities to service the growing and expanding Irish market.

Trish was previously a project manager at CF Pharma in Ireland. Trish has overseen and led the product development of the Telenostic system to date. Trish has led the IP partnership with University College Dublin, the patent submission, the successful Smart Agri Project and secured the ‘Gold Seal of Approval’ from the European Commission in 2021 for the Telenostic Horizon 2020 submission.

Jamie is a qualified chartered accountant who was appointed as the CFO of Telenostic in April 2023. After working in practice, he previously was the financial controller for the Hermitage Farms Group, which included companies in Ireland, UK & Italy, for over 10 years. He is a fellow of Chartered Accounts Ireland.

He has significant experience in all areas of management accounting, financial planning & taxation. He has worked closely with funding agencies such as Enterprise Ireland and has been involved in various Research & Development projects.

Eamonn has a background in start-ups and software. He, comes to Telenostic with over 10 years of research and development and infrastructure management experience. His expertise is primarily in software engineering, infrastructure management, telecommunications, private cloud development. He, has worked as a senior software engineer and led in European research projects. He, has also mentored staff over 10 years, training personnel now employed by IBM, Redhat and others.

Eamonn also championed and led the integration of AI into the Telenostic platform resulting in a win at the National AI Awards in 2019.

Nagwa is a qualified parasitologist with a PhD in Veterinary Parasitology from UCD and an M.Sc. in Human Parasitology from Benghazi University. With over 24 years of in-depth knowledge in biology, veterinary and human parasitology, and zoonotic diseases, she has accumulated more than 15 years of experience in academia and 6 years in the industry. Her research interests focus on parasitology and epidemiology, with specific expertise in diagnosis, anthelmintic resistance, and the development of alternative helminth control strategies.

In her roles as a technician, teacher, and lecturer, she has provided hands-on training in good laboratory practices, safe working procedures, sample collection and archiving, and data analysis. Additionally, she has experience in peer-reviewing scientific work and publications.

Pat’s background is in electromechanical design. Pats expertise is in Device design, validation, optimisation, Design for Manufacture, Software Engineering and Systems Analysis. He has played integral roles in medical device design and optimisation in companies such as Boston Scientific and Lake Region Medical. He has worked as a software research engineer for internationally renowned research group, TSSG.

Pat also worked to develop European research projects under Horizon 2020. Pat has many years working at management level and has been the primary person responsible for the DFM of the OvaCyte EQ & LA and OvaCyte Pet Analysers.

Joining the team in 2021, William started off as one of the senior software developers and digital project manager and has since moved up Chief Operations Officer.William has a portfolio of over 20 years working in software engineering, digital product development and the management of technical teams, both locally and internationally.

With previous roles developing software products in industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, media and finance and having worked on projects for companies such as Samsung, Apple, Unilever, Nestle, Aston Martin and more locally Danone and Glambia, William brings a wealth of experience, ideas and energy to the company. In the past William has worked in roles such as Projects Manager, Head of Development, CTO and Director of Technology and he now brings these strengths and skills to bear heading up Operations for Telenostic.

Jayanta is a qualified Veterinary surgeon, he graduated from Assam Agricultural University, in India. He has over 10 years of experience in small and large animal Medicine and surgery and previously worked as a veterinary clinician in India and Mauritius.

Jayanta joined the Telenostic team in 2021 and currently leads the Clinical Team.

Aidan is our Customer Support Manager, with 23+ years of practical experience working across a multitude of national and international firms such as Arvato Digital Services, Microsoft, Google, Grant Thornton, where his roles as Global Knowledge Lead, Global Innovation Lead and Global Automation Lead have provided him with a vast wealth of experience leading both strategic and tactical initiatives and implementations of support structures and teams.

 A primary aspect of each of his roles has been to engage with senior stakeholders to translate their business, regulatory and technology needs into day to day operational processes. Aidan understands the complexities of adopting a new technology and his experience in providing Innovative and Customer Focused solutions has proven valuable when creating Telenostic’s customer support team and background support processes.