Will Prendergast
Will is Partner on Frontline’s Seed fund, and co-founded the firm in 2012 with an ambition to build a more collaborative approach to funding globally ambitious founders. He has firsthand experience in the pains of getting a company going and growing, and carefully building out a robust and long-lasting leadership team. Will has led over […]
Stephen McIntyre
Stephen is a Partner at Frontline and works on the Growth fund. He joined Frontline in 2016 with 20 years of tech operating experience. He was an early employee at Twitter (long before Elon), where he set up regional operations from scratch and led through the IPO as EMEA Vice President. Before that, Stephen led […]
Eimear Cahalin
Eimear is an accomplished COO and CFO who has worked across a broad range of multinational organisations and successful high-growth companies, spanning various sectors from financial services to green energy. Most recently, she was founder and CFO of Vivid Edge, helping large organisations reach net zero. Eimear was named CFO of The Year in the […]
Dylan Scully
Dylan is an investor on Frontline’s Seed team. Based in our Dublin office, he is primarily focused on meeting the best and brightest founders that the Irish ecosystem has to offer. He has a keen interest in emerging market opportunities at the intersection of software and the sciences (including bio, climate, and health), as well […]
David Clarke
David has spent his career to date in and around startups in Dublin, Ireland and Dublin, California. He was an early employee and a leader in the product group at IONA Technologies, one of Ireland’s earliest Nasdaq IPOs. He subsequently co-founded and led the product group at Cape Clear, a pioneer in internet middleware. After […]
Shay Garvey
Shay was a Co-founder and is now a Venture Partner at Frontline. He has had a wide and varied career covering U.S. corporates (Exxon, Corning), strategy consulting (McKinsey) food startups (Glentara Foods, Irish Seafood Producers Group) and venture capital (Delta Partners, Frontline). Shay has invested in over 30 early- stage European tech companies and currently […]
Brian Shortall
Brian is a Finance Manager at Frontline, and ensures that all the day-to-day financial requirements of the firm happen as they should. Prior to joining Frontline in 2023, Brian worked across the banking and finance sector, with experience in lending and deposits, equities, budgeting and planning, and project delivery. He originally trained as a Chartered […]
Grainne McKenna
Grainne is the Funds Finance Manager at Frontline and oversees the end-to-end fund accounting function, including reporting and compliance. She is FCCA qualified and holds a BA in Accounting and Finance from DCU. Prior to joining Frontline, Grainne spent over a decade asa Financial Accountant specialising in the Life Assurancesector, before moving to one of […]
Aoife Kane
Aoife manages both of Frontline’s offices in Dublin and London, and works closely with Eimear to offer all shades of administrative support to the rest of the team. Aoife began her career as an Archaeologist before pivoting to HR and business support for an independent archaeological research institute, and later worked as office manager for […]
Kate McKenna
Kate is Frontline’s first Head of Legal and is a qualified Irish lawyer, trademark agent and all-round intellectual property nerd. She trained and qualified in one of Dublin’s top five law firms – where she picked up her grá for technology law – and has spent eight years as an in-house lawyer for a multinational […]
