Oisin Hanrahan

Handybook. Undergraduate Awards. WEF Global Shaper.

Location: New York, New York (Greater New York City Area)
Industry: Internet

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Oisin Hanrahan's Overview

Current

Co-founder & CEO at Handybook
Director / Co-Founder at The Undergraduate Awards
Managing Director / Founder at Clearwater Group Hungary

Past

Projects at Accel Partners
Commercial Director / Co-Founder at MiCandidate Ltd

Education

Harvard Business School
London School of Economics and Political Science
Trinity College, Dublin

Uppsala Universitet

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Connections

500+ connections

Websites

Undergraduate Awards

Co-founder & CEO

Handybook

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

March 2012 – Present (1 year 3 months) Greater Boston Area

Director / Co-Founder

The Undergraduate Awards

Privately Held; Myself Only; Nonprofit Organization Management industry

July 2008 – Present (4 years 11 months)

The Undergraduate Awards were established to identify recognise and reward the brightest undergraduates on the island of Ireland.

· Successfully established UA as the leading undergraduate awards programme in Ireland. Measures of success include; large number of student submissions, awards presented by President McAleese and recognition by print media.

· Canvassed, lobbied and secured financial and in-kind support from founding partners (including Google, The Irish Times, Higher Education Authority)

· Highlights included introducing Senator Chris Dodd and Sir Peter Sutherland as keynote speakers at UA events.

· Co-founded with Paddy Cosgrave

Managing Director / Founder

Clearwater Group Hungary

January 2003 – Present (10 years 5 months)

Clearwater Group was established to develop high quality residential property in Eastern European cities.

· Successfully completed the acquisition, planning and permitting for four developments and the construction of two of these developments.

· Assembled a network of professionals, local government officials and political supporters, built a core team including an architect, engineer, acquisition agent and project manager.

· Identified suitable development projects, successfully managed site acquisition negotiations.

· Prepared necessary investor documentation and led a successful fund-raising round.

· Successfully completed development of the first block of six apartments through a sub-contractor.

· Managed takeover of sub-contractor’s construction firm during second project, appointed a project manager and team leader to lead construction work. Project was completed.

Projects

Accel Partners

Partnership; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry

May 2011 – March 2012 (11 months) London, United Kingdom

Commercial Director / Co-Founder

MiCandidate Ltd

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry

January 2009 – September 2009 (9 months)

MiCandidate was established to put information on all candidates running in an election in one place online, and to
facilitate interaction between candidates and voters.

· Successfully launched MiCandidate for the European elections in May ’09, attracting over 100,000 page views on its first day and over 1,000,000 over the election campaign.

· Led the team that negotiated and completed media integration deals with blue chip media organisations (including Euronews, The Telegraph, The Independent, RTBF – Belgian State Broadcaster).

· Managed the communications team that ensured MiCandidate was covered by every Irish newspaper on launch day.

· Led the direct sales team that converted over ten percent (250+) of the Irish local election candidates to paid profiles within four weeks of launch.

· Exited to two investing partners. Co-founded with Paddy Cosgrave.

· MiCandidate has now become iCitizen and is expanding its offering to European broadcaste