Meet The Team

Teresa Daly works as a Sales Administrator and Marketing Execute. Teresa manages all aspects of the customer journey including contacting new schools, getting new schools signed up and providing ongoing support for schools. Teresa also manages the social media for the business, including the development of explainer videos and other promotional content.

Teresa has an undergraduate degree in Interactive Multimedia from the Institute of Technology Tralee and a Masters in Radio and Television Production from National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Teresa has a background in media and customer service. She joined Athena Analytics after moving back to Kerry from Sydney, Australia after 10 years, where she worked in various roles including 6 years at Technicolor, where she worked as Operations Manager on the data management team.

Emily Brick is the founder and managing director of Athena Analytics, an award-winning EdTech company that provides a range of AI-powered academic tracking solutions to over 400 secondary schools across Ireland. 

Prior to founding Athena Analytics in 2017, Emily worked as a data scientist across several industries, most notably within Australia’s Department of Education.

In 2022, Emily represented Ireland in the Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI), the US Department of State’s flagship program for emerging entrepreneurs from Europe. In 2019, Emily was awarded ‘Best Young Entrepreneur’ and ‘Best Established Business’ at Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur Awards (Kerry). She was a finalist at the National Enterprise Awards in 2022.

Emily has a BSc in Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Science and a Masters in Statistics, both of which she received from University College Cork.

Caroline Reidy is the founder and managing director of the HR Suite. The HR Suite offers human resources and business solutions to over 500 clients across Ireland. Caroline is also an adjudicator on the Workplace Relations Commission. Caroline now provides guidance on growing the business and implementing key systems and processes, including building teams in customer support and software development.

Caroline was appointed non-executive director of Athena Analytics in 2019, following an investment in the company.

Professor Áine Hyland is Emeritus Professor of Education and former Vice-President of University College Cork. Over the past 40 years, she has been involved in a number of different education projects. She was a member of the Interim Curriculum and Examinations Board in the 1980s and of the Special Education Review Committee in the early 1990s.

Professor Hyland was President of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland from 1990 to 1992. She chaired the commission on the points system which reported in 1999; the Statutory Educational Disadvantage Committee from 2002 to 2005; the National Economic and Social Forum’s Advisory Group on Literacy and Social Inclusion, 2009 – 2010, and a Working Group for the State Examination Commission on Reasonable Accommodations which reported in 2009. 

John O’ Regan is a former teacher of mathematics and geography. He was principal of Causeway Comprehensive School for over a decade. Since his retirement, John has worked as an education consultant and advisor.

John was a founding member of the Tralee Education Centre and continues to be an active member of its management committee and of the Association of Support Centres of Ireland. He has been a lecturer and a tutor on UCC Outreach Programmes as well as the NCCA Project Maths team.

Dr. Eric Wolsztynski is a statistics lecturer at the UCC School of Mathematical Sciences. He obtained his PhD in Statistical Signal and Image Processing at the University of Nice (France) in 2006. He specialises in computational statistics and statistical learning topics.

Dr. Wolsztynski is actively involved in research in medical imaging analysis, risk characterisation in insurance, and predictive business analytics. He is a funded investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. 

Paul is the senior independent director of Glanbia Ireland, and Chairman of Edward Dillon & Co. He was recently appointed to the Board of National Broadband Ireland, where is he is the senior independent director and chair of its audit and remuneration committees.

Haran completed an eight-year term as chairman of the Advisory Board of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in 2015, and served as the university’s vice-president and principal of UCD’s Business and Law schools. Paul retired at the end of 2004 as Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment after a public sector career of almost 30 years. He received both his BSc in Computer Science and his MSc in Economics, Statistics and Finance from Trinity College Dublin. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Trinity College Dublin in 2006, and from UCD in 2015.

Dr Brendan O’Keeffe is a Associate Professor in Health and Physical Education at the University of Limerick and vice-president of the Physical Education Association of Ireland.

His research interests span across a broad range of health and fitness related themes among youth, including: the pedagogy of health-related fitness; scalable school-based health promotion intervention; resistance training in youth; and teacher education.