Our Team

As Director of Operations at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, Maggie leads our governance, finance, HR and digital systems. She brings senior leadership experience in the hospitality industry and more recently in Corporate Services in the charities sector. Her focus is on embedding a strong governance structure across the organisation to support the strategic vision of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland.

Outside of work, Maggie enjoys cooking and travelling with her family and loves upcycling old furniture.

With over 20 years of experience in fundraising, partnerships, and management, Michelle’s career has spanned various significant roles. Michelle led the corporate partnerships team for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in the UK and Ireland, managed strategic airline partners for Aer Lingus globally, and prior to joining SEI, was part of the leadership team at a creative and dynamic marketing agency. At SEI, Michelle is responsible for leading the development and implementation of the income generation strategy.

In her free time, Michelle enjoys cooking, playing tennis, and swimming in the sea as often as she can.

Bruno leads the engagement and roll-out of the SEI community programme, from the selection process for SEI programmes to the different events throughout the year. Bruno's aim is to provide supports that effectively leverage the skills and knowledge of SEI’s community to help social entrepreneurs increase their impact.

Outside of work, Bruno loves movies, dancing and travelling to new and different places.

Siobhán role ensures that SEI is well governed, accountable and transparent in all areas. Her main priority is managing the SEI bookkeeping, governance, human resources and office maintenance. When not at work, Siobhan loves nothing more than to watch her two sons to grow and flourish, enjoying the great outdoors.

As Data, Insights and Research Manager at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, Laura leads the SEI Impact Measurement Strategy. Prior to SEI, Laura worked in research and evaluation of social programmes in Ireland and Latin America. Her focus is supporting the SEI team and social entrepreneurs in the community to update or create theories of change and collect better data to measure impact. Outside of work, she enjoys doing yoga, running, hiking, and travelling to new places.

As Programme Manager on SEI’s Impact team, Jo brings her passion for positive social change, project management skills and powerful questions to the role. Jo leads SEI's Impact Programme, and is responsible for supporting high potential social entrepreneurs to increase their scale, impact and sustainability while focusing on their personal resilience.

Outside of work, Jo can be found playing with her daughter in Leitrim, advocating for cycling, pulling weeds at community meitheals and writing.

As part of SEI’s Development team, Darren works closely with our corporate and foundation partners as well as exploring new opportunities in these spaces for SEI’s vision of accelerated social change. Prior to joining SEI, Darren worked in non-profit management consulting focusing on fundraising strategies, strategic planning, capital grants and benchmarking.
Outside of work, Darren can be found exploring his new surroundings in the southeast.