Edel Creely is a business leader and entrepreneur with over 30 years experience in the Software & ICT Services Sector, skilled in Business Growth Strategy, M&A, People and Management, Services Operations and Sales & Marketing. As founder of Trilogy Technologies, Edel built the company into one of the leading IT Managed Services providers in the Irish market through strategic acquisitions and organic growth. She successfully led the acquisition of Trilogy Technologies by Arkphire in 2020. She currently provides NED and Advisory services to scaling companies and is a Director with IT Services company Auxilion. Edel has been a prominent advocate for the indigenous business in Ireland. She has been Chair of the Irish Software Association (Technology Ireland) and Board member and President of Ibec. In 2017 Edel was Awarded Tech Excellence 'IT Person of the Year' and Technology Ireland ‘Person of the Year’ in 2020. An engineer by profession she is an accomplished violinist and regularly performs with the Hibernian Orchestra.