Corvil » Management

Donal Byrne – CEO

Donal Byrne is the CEO and President of Corvil, and has over twenty years experience working in the field of computer systems, networking and telecommunications. His most recent interest is in mathematical and algorithmic-based solutions for low-latency management and optimization of high frequency electronic trading infrastructure. Donal joined Corvil in 2000 as the non-executive Chairman and in 2002, he took on the role of Chief Executive with a view to building a successful multinational software company for the Financial Services sector. In 2004, Donal was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer for his work with Corvil and in 2005 he was a named in the Top 10 Emerging Technology Companies in the Ernst and Young, Entrepreneur Of The Year.

Prior to Corvil, Donal was part of the founding management team of FirstMark Communications; an alternate broadband service provider in Europe. At Firstmark he held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of the company.

From 1993 to 1999 Donal worked in Silicon Valley. In 1996, Donal co-founded Berkeley Networks. Berkeley Networks was acquired by Fore Systems in September 1998. Shortly after, Donal was appointed Senior Vice President of Marketing for FORE Systems. Fore was a leader in Internet switching platforms. In 1999, Fore Systems was acquired by GEC.

From 1993 to 1996, Donal was the Director of Architecture and Product Management at Bay Networks (formerly Synoptics and Wellfleet) where he was responsible for development of next generation routers called layer-3 switches. Donal joined Synoptics from Digital Equipment Corporation, where he led the hardware and software engineering development of a wide range of data switching and Internet routing products, in Boston. In the late eighties, he worked in France Telecom’s research laboratories, (CNET, Lannion), where he focused on high-speed optical transmission and telecommunications systems.

Donal holds a B.E. and M.Eng.Sc degrees from University College Dublin. He has been an invited speaker at many industry conferences and events and has numerous publications and patents in the field of network communications.

Raymond Russell – CTO & Co-Founder

Raymond is a founder of Corvil and co-inventor of its core technology. He started his career as a research assistant under Prof. John Lewis in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). There he worked with John and Fergal Toomey (Principal Scientist with Corvil) in pioneering the measurement of the Large Deviation properties of packet-switched network traffic.

In 1997, Raymond completed his Ph.D. thesis on the transformation of stochastic processes under random time-changes, and took up a part-time Assistant Professorship in DIAS. He used the rest of his time to work with Lewis and Toomey on the foundations of Corvil, which he joined full-time in 2000. He used a central result of his thesis to apply the original form of the technology to IP networks.

Since 2000, Raymond has played an instrumental role in building a strong company and product suite around the core Corvil technology, covering many areas such as network science, product management, technical sales, and field engineering.

As Chief Technology Officer, Raymond is focused on driving continued advancement and fulfillment of Corvil’s innovations with a focus on applications and infrastructure in capital market. Recently, Raymond has led intensive investigations into latency issues impacting proprietary trading firm applications and utilized this experience to improve Corvil’s product offering.

Fergal Toomey - Chief Scientist & Co-Founder

Fergal is one of Corvil’s founders and a specialist in bandwidth and QoS measurement technologies. He has been involved in the design and development of innovative traffic measurement and analysis algorithms for the past 12 years. Prior to joining Corvil in 2000, Fergal held the position of assistant professor in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where he was a member of Prof. John T. Lewis’ applied probability group which also included Raymond Russell, Corvil’s Chief Technology Officer.

At DIAS, Fergal worked on applications ranging from probability theory and game theory to performance modeling and analysis for networks and real-time computing systems. He has published technical papers on subjects including real-time QoS-aware measurement of network traffic and performance analysis of network queuing and scheduling models.

At Corvil, Fergal has been intensively involved in developing key product innovations directly applicable to managing latency in capital markets. Recently he has been involved in applying these innovations in the capital markets sector to help our customers realize the full capabilities of the product.

Fergal holds an M.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Applied Probability Theory, both from Trinity College, Dublin

James Henry, VP Engineering & Operations

James joined Corvil in March 2004 as Director of Customer Advocacy with responsibility for the global delivery of Technical Support, Customer Services, Project Management and Training. In May 2005, James was promoted to VP Engineering with responsibility for product delivery. In February 2007, his role was expanded to include Operations with responsibility for Professional Services, Technical Support, Training and Fulfilment.

James brings extensive Management, Project Management, Information Systems and Software Engineering experience to Corvil having held a variety of senior positions at a pan-European and International level. Prior to Corvil, James was VP for Worldwide Services at Adobe Systems in San Jose responsible for service delivery on desktop products and enterprise solutions. From 1999, James was Managing Director of JetForm in Dublin responsible for delivery of Business Process Automation solutions to customers in the Financial and Government sectors across Europe. In 2001, he took up the position of CIO at JetForm based in Canada. Prior to this, James held a number of consulting and software engineering positions including Practice Manager at ICL/Fujitsu, where he managed large scale Data Warehouse and ERP developments and deployments.

James holds a Masters in Business Administration from University College Dublin. 

Donal O'Sullivan, VP Product Management

Donal joined Corvil in June 2001, and has since held various roles from Director of Product Architecture, to his current role as VP Product Management.

Donal has fifteen years experience in software engineering in the telecommunications sector, mainly in the area of Network Management. He held various engineering and management roles in Euristix/Marconi, where he delivered several large cutting-edge projects to some of the leading Global network equipment vendors. It was through this exposure to advanced network management and instrumentation that Donal met the Corvil founders, and ultimately joined Corvil.

Donal holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Limerick.