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Barry Cloonan reposted thisBarry Cloonan reposted thisOne of my favourite founder stories: Evervault went from zero prior compliance experience to SOC 2 Type II compliant in just a few weeks, with Vanta's help every step of the way. If you're thinking of getting your compliance into shape, book a demo here: https://lnkd.in/eRH66wAR
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Barry Cloonan reposted thisBarry Cloonan reposted this🇫🇷 Calling all French AEs - Vanta is looking for the next superstar to help us scale our French business. 🇫🇷 Due to an internal promo, this is a rare opportunity to join a special team selling into a market where trust is becoming a true competitive advantage. Our Early Stage segment is the engine of the business - high-velocity, high-impact, and full of opportunity. This team is on fire YTD 🔥 Why Vanta? - Raised $500M+ to date, including a $150M Series D in July 2025, reaching a $4.15B valuation - Backed by Sequoia Capital across all 4 rounds (rare) - Focused on helping customers build and prove trust as a competitive lever (and it’s working) - recently named #1 GRC product on G2 (2026) - Incredible colleagues and a fun journey ahead 💜 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/epfreFraFrench Speaking Account Executive, Early Stage - EMEAFrench Speaking Account Executive, Early Stage - EMEA
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Barry Cloonan reposted thisBarry Cloonan reposted thisNumbers like this are why Vanta is the go-to solution for Founders. AudioStack's Founder Peadar Coyle estimates they've saved 80-100 hours with Vanta, with Access Reviews down from 10 hours to 30 minutes. That's real time back for building product and getting that product to market. Are you a founder who wants to get that time back? Book a demo: http://bit.ly/3TA2Jo8
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Barry Cloonan reposted thisBarry Cloonan reposted thisI recently did a post about how skeptical I/We would and should be about giving up our financial details to the likes of LLM financial planners. (ChatGPT, Claude etc) Cece De Boon created an exciting startup called Bonafi which is a cool AI wealth management platform (not an ad but it helps you manage all your financial affairs in a simple easy interface) But how can you trust something like this? Because Vanta manages their security, compliance & risk management! Congrats Cece De Boon on a great business with cast iron risk management! Seven weeks. Three ISO certifications. Zero nonconformities. That's the timeline Cecé de Boon and the team at Bonafi hit with Vanta, building an AI-first wealth platform where trust isn't optional, it's the product. Book a demo: https://lnkd.in/gm4g5FN2
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Barry Cloonan reposted thisBarry Cloonan reposted thisMany of our prospects are still doing the annual audit scramble instead of planning their annual leave. 🌞 Peak's Senior Security Risk Analyst, Michael P. told us that continuous monitoring with Vanta means dealing with issues as they arise, not once a year. Are you still treating compliance as an annual task? Book a demo: https://lnkd.in/eRH66wAR
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Barry Cloonan posted thisAfter almost 6 and a half fantastic years at HubSpot, I decided to finish my time there just before Christmas to enjoy my last few months in Australia, before moving home to Ireland last week. A big thank you to everyone who helped me during my time there. There are far too many to name, but a special thank you to all the managers who took a chance on me at different points in my career. Jean-Bernard Baptiste, Jessica Farrell, Brian B., Simon Kinneen, Caleb Buscher, Jackson McCulloch, Kara Dallimore, Liam O’Driscoll I am now re-entering the job market for the first time in almost 7 years! If you know of someone who is looking for a Sales Rep with a proven track record (3x P Club, 11 Promotions, 3x Team Lead) please do put them in touch with me. Or if your company is hiring and you're looking for a referral bonus, I could be your man! Look forward to (hopefully) hearing from some of you soon and excited to see what’s next!
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Barry Cloonan shared thisYou can now use HubSpot's ChatHub AI to build out your CRM in record time. Ask questions to your CRM or automate manual tasks like creating reports in your instance of HubSpot. If you've been considering HubSpot and would like to learn more, reach out to me or check out HubSpot's tips and tricks video in the comments!
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Barry Cloonan liked thisBarry Cloonan liked thisExcited to be speaking at the HigherEd Collective Summit in Dubai on October 28th — a room full of university marketing and admissions leaders from across the region. If you're in Higher Ed marketing or admissions, this one's worth your time. Register below 👇 https://lnkd.in/ejWeSMcJHigherEd Collective Summit 2026 | HigherEd CollectiveHigherEd Collective Summit 2026 | HigherEd Collective
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Barry Cloonan liked thisBarry Cloonan liked thisExcited to share that I’ve joined ZoomInfo as an Account Executive in the London office. After four rewarding years at HubSpot in Sydney, I took some time away to travel, and now I’m thrilled to begin the next chapter of my career in the European market. ZoomInfo is a company I’ve long admired, and I’m looking forward to the challenge, the learning, and the opportunities ahead. A sincere thank you to Sam Hurd, Oliver Leverett, and Charles Kirkman for putting their trust in me, and to Danielle Bartone for running such a thoughtful recruitment process. Here’s to new markets, new challenges, and a fresh start in London.
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Barry Cloonan liked thisBarry Cloonan liked thisI brought my mam and her partner Mick into our Dublin tower for the first time last week. I've been at Salesforce over two and a half years now, and it was watching their reaction to the office — the atrium, the energy of the place — that reminded me just how lucky I am to work here. It also got me thinking about how much has changed since I started. Agentforce has gone from a big idea to something our customers are actually running their businesses on — last years release’s alone is rolling out hundreds of AI, data, and automation advancements, from agentic tools that help IT teams resolve issues automatically to AI-guided shopping experiences that feel like having a personal shopper online. The message coming out of this year's events is clear: AI is moving from experimental to essential — not the kind that sits in a lab, but the kind that works in your sales process, your customer service, your operations. Being this close to it, in Salesforce for over two and a half years, it's easy to forget how fast we're moving. Sometimes it takes your mam to remind you. (Thank god for Mammies). There's never been a better time to be part of it. We've got plenty of open roles across sales and sales development — if you think you'd be a good fit, send me a DM.
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Barry Cloonan liked thisBarry Cloonan liked thisUNBOUND what.a.week! A big thank you to the team at HubSpot who worked tirelessly to put this incredible event on, but an even bigger thank you to our team at Centralise. It's an unbelievable opportunity to get to go to UNBOUND, but it does also mean leaving family, friends and normality for a week and spending an inordinate amount of time with your colleagues. It means catching up where you can with work, stepping outside your comfort zone (when you're usually the one behind the screens) and running on very little sleep. It also means that the team at home picked up a bit more work and had a few less people to call upon when needed. You are all amazing, so thank you. You can see from the video it was totally worth it. Until next year, UNBOUND! #HubSpot #Centralise #UNBOUND
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Barry Cloonan liked thisBarry Cloonan liked thisExcited to share that I've joined ElevenLabs as part of the People Team, leading on building out our internal Events & Experience team — building the moments that strengthen culture, deepen connection, and move the business forward 🚀 I spent my first week here at an all-company offsite (nothing like spending a week at a tropical resort with 800+ colleagues to really get to know the business and the people lol). All week, I was blown away by the product, the mission, and the people- ElevenLabs is truly building a generational company and I'm honoured to be part of this rocket ship! *highlight of my 1st week at ElevenLabs; getting on stage in front of the whole company on day 4 of my tenure with 24 hrs notice for a new hire panel 🤣
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Barry Cloonan liked thisBarry Cloonan liked thisSo proud to be here, at UNBOUND with our incredible team. Today so far has been a blast! We've had countless people attempt to beat our bot (a couple of people have been CLOSE - the quickest so far has been 48 seconds!). We have seen some amazing sessions, walked through many many Revenue Audits and met some fantastic people. Our day is no where near over, there is still so much to see and do... and still a chance to beat the bot! HubSpot #UNBOUND #HubSpot #Centralise
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Barry Cloonan liked thisIt’s one thing to know where your security and compliance program needs to go. It’s another thing entirely to have the infrastructure, automation and visibility to actually get there. Josephine Robinson and the team at Codat are a great example of the latter. By consolidating their GRC program onto Vanta, they were able to: → Increase control pass rates from 23% to 60% in under 9 months → Move 90 vendors onto automated review cycles → Identify and revoke 116 instances of excessive access across 1,000+ accounts → Give Josephine back valuable time to focus on trust strategy rather than chasing evidence That last point is particularly important. The best security leaders shouldn’t be spending their time hunting down evidence, manually coordinating reviews or fighting spreadsheets. They should be thinking strategically about risk, trust, resilience and how security enables the business. The right technology doesn’t replace great security leadership. It gives great security leaders the leverage to operate at a completely different level. Well done, Josephine! This is what modern security leadership looks like.Barry Cloonan liked this"I don't think I'd be able to survive without Vanta now." - Josephine Robinson, Information Security Director, Codat Codat consolidated its entire GRC program onto Vanta. The impact? 🟣 Control pass rate up from 23% to 60% in under 9 months 🟣 90 vendors moved to automated review cycles 🟣 116 instances of excessive access revoked across 1,000+ accounts 🟣 Reclaimed time for Josephine to lead trust strategy instead of chasing evidence Read more here: https://bit.ly/4AjDdok
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Barry Cloonan liked thisBarry Cloonan liked thisUNBOUND (formally Inbound) is always an exciting week, but this year’s 10x exciting for me as I get to share it with 10 other legends from Centralise and, of course, meet a bunch of familiar faces and meet plenty of new ones. If you see me or any of the team about, don’t be shy, we would love to say hello. I can offer fantastic insight into how bad the Guinness is outside of Ireland, how happy I am about Shane Lowry winning at the weekend and how hot London was this summer. If you want to chat about how to Centralise your data, processes and scale your business with HubSpot , come see us at Stand 40.
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UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
First Class Honors (3.8 GPA)
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Activities and Societies: Class ambassador – Represented the student body in meetings with the school and at events for prospective students. Built close relationships with lecturers and consulted with them on curriculum improvement for future years.
Top 15 Marketing Programme in the world
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Volunteer
UCD Volunteers Overseas
- 8 months
Education
Raised €2,500 before going to Haiti in August 2014 for 4 weeks. I taught 10-12 boys on a daily basis in the mornings. In the afternoons we split into two groups. One group would help the locals in the building of a school. The other group would conduct computer training for teachers in a computer lab which the organisation had built the year before.
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Fundraising Volunteer
Special Olympics
- 6 months
Social Services
Raised €4,500 for Special Olympics Ireland through a 6 month read-a-thon. The proceeds allowed 4 Moroccan athletes compete in the games. I would attend the games for the athletes which my money contributed towards. For my efforts I was invited to the opening ceremony in Croke Park and the Moroccan embassy the night before the athletes went home.
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Communications Officer
Tullamore Basketball Club
- 2 years
Education
Communications officer and original member in the set-up of Tullamore basketball club. Also began coaching the Under 12 team and led them to a regional final in our inaugural year.
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