Meet the Peeps
These are the people that make the magic happen.






James is an entrepreneur and fully qualified solicitor. Prior to PepTalk, James-co founded and was MD of Legacy Communications, now one of a leading marketing agencies headquarted in Dublin, Ireland. James is also an advisor to a number of startups.
Favourites
- Food: Mexican
- Artist:The National
- Place: NYC
- Movie: Intermission



Content specialist, writer and geriatric millennial. Obsessed with human centred content and strange flavours of creativity. A champion of disrupting the status quo of the digital world. Fluent in self deprecation. Usually hungry.
Favourites
- Food: Caribbean jerk chicken with rice n peas
- Artist: 80s + 90s Whitney Houston
- Place: New Zealand
- Movie: Sister Act 2
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Over 10 years of B2C Marketing experience in mutiple industries with a particular focus on end-user experience, customer journey and analytics. Have worked with some super exciting brands, including Audi, Porsche and of course PepTalk!
Favourites
- Food: Ramen (Today, might be something else tomorrow)
- Artist: Paloma Faith
- Place: Siem Reap, Cambodia
- Movie: Love Actually

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Chartered accountant turned entrepenuer. Founder of PepTalk after a long career as part of a high performing culture with Dublin GAA winning 7 all-Irelands. Also founded Legacy Communications, one of Ireland's fastest growing digital marketing agencies and well as owning a number of Pubs and other business interests.
Favourites
- Food: Thai / Chinese
- Artist: David Guetta / 90's Dance
- Place: Croke Park
- Movie: The Greatest Showman / The Big Short


Chief of Global Partnerships at PepTalk, Host of Work’s Broken podcast series.

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Content marketing specialist for companies with a little bidda attitude and a whole lotta heart - just like me. Creator of content. Writer of words. Bringer of energy (and noise). +7 years marketing things
Favourites
- Food: Dumplings
- Artist: Reggaeton
- Place: Spain
- Movie: Mulan (the old one)

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All things people & potential. 10+ years in the world of HR partnering across a number of different sectors. Passionate about development, learning, coaching & applying my nerdy self (and my learnings!) to the world of work.
Favourites
- Food: Sushi
- Artist: Stereophonics
- Place: Nepal
- Movie: Up



Product professional with over 20 years of experience with market leading organisations. Passionate about understanding customer needs and delivering valuable solutions to solve their problems.
Favourites
- Food: Indian Cuisine
- Artist: Bruce Springsteen
- Place: Melbourne
- Movie: The Godfather


Tara O’Sullivan is PepTalk's CMO - working with an amazing team of people, I am responsible for developing and delivering the go to market strategy. This includes marketing ops, demand generation, PPC, events, campaigns, product marketing, brand and messaging. I make sure the team work brilliantly with sales, as well as customer success. I ensure that everything we do, especially its digital technology strategy, presents the company’s brands, voice and vision consistently and authoritatively. I have over 25 years’ experience in B2B technology marketing, including leadership positions at Immedis, Oracle, IONA Technologies, SAS and TES Global. I have loved marketing since I read Vance Packard's book the Hidden Persuaders when I was 12.
Favourites
- Food: Chinese
- Artist: Bruce Springsteen
- Place: Dublin
- Movie: It's a Wonderful Life



Customer Success Manager with over 2.5 years of experience in fast-paced tech startups across a range of industries, where I worked to build and nurture customer relationships.
Favourites
- Food: Indian or Italian
- Artist: Coldplay
- Place: Capetown
- Movie: Bridesmaids



Around 20 years as a digital artist, animation director / 3d designer
Favourites
- Food: Injera
- Artist: MF DOOM
- Place: Ireland...in Summer
- Movie: Walking Life



Over 18 years as a B2C and B2B digital marketing, marketing operations and automation leader. 2020-22 Salesforce Marketing Champion and 5x Salesforce certified.
Favourites
- Food: Mexican
- Artist: Tom Petty
- Place: Berlin
- Movie: Jaws



Sales leader >20 years B2B business development & revenue growth experience with MNC and large enterprise customers. Enabling teams and leaders to better engage their people so that real world business outcomes can happen from the remote world!
Favourites
- Food: Medium rare fillet beef
- Artist: 80's power ballads!
- Place: Beara peninsula, West Cork
- Movie: Godfather Part 2


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Graduated in software engineer 10 years ago in Habana Cuba. I am passionate about software development, with strong hands-on experience in software application design and development using web technologies, TDD and Design Patterns. Self motivated with good problem-solving skills and fast learning abilities, used to developing quality software under strict deadlines.
Favourites
- Food: Italian
- Artist: Leoni Torres
- Place: Baracoa / Guantanamo / Cuba
- Movie: 50 First Days



Copywriter, visual designer and general creative drip with experience in news media and magazines, agency and in-house marketing.
Favourites
- Food: If it's vegan, we loves it
- Artist: Christopher Wheeldon
- Place: A dark theatre with a tuning orchestra
- Movie: My Cousin Vinny



Over 20 years experience with all things Finance & Payroll. Previously worked with Start-ups in Manufacturing & Software. Has also Finance experience in Hospitality, Recruitment & Medical Supply Industries.
Favourites
- Food: Italian - with heaps of Parmesan - or Steak
- Artist: U2 or anything 80's (showing my age)
- Place: Rome
- Movie: Home Alone 1 or 2, Stepbrothers, Moana, Tangled

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Graduated in Marketing a long long time ago! and went onto have a career in S&M within the corporate world both in Ireland and in the UK, working for International companies like Pepsico, Britvic and Compass, before venturing into the entrepreneaural world of running my own business which ironically led me to PepTalk, and 4.5 years later here I am helping build the dream.
Favourites
- Food: Italian
- Artist: If it's got a beat, I'm on it!!
- Place: Lisbon
- Movie: Meet Joe Black

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With a background in Finance and Operations, Aishling has 10+ years experience working with with start-up and multinational organisations in Ireland, Canada and Australia. Aishling is passionate about working in partnership with PepTalk customers to develop and implement their strategic vision.
Favourites
- Food: Sushi, Mexican
- Artist: Fisher, Camelphat
- Place: Venice Beach, California
- Movie: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days



8+ Years in Customer facing Sales and Marketing from Retail to FMCG and now PepTalk.
Favourites
- Food: Homemade Beef Stew
- Artist: Loyle Carner
- Place: Strandhill, Co. Sligo
- Movie: The Green Mile

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A strategic executive with a proven background in enterprise technology sales and general business management building high performing teams. A track record of success through challenging the status-quo, transforming go-to-market strategies, and embracing new technologies and solutions. He is an experienced Board member/advisor and has worked across many sectors with companies including Hitachi, Dell EMC and Smurfit Kappa.
Favourites
- Food: Italian
- Artist: ABBA to ZZ Top with U2 interspersed throughout
- Place: New York
- Movie: Shawshank Redemption



Solution oriented Data Scientist with 9+ years of experience in managing software and data science projects for MNC clients. Well versed with predictive modelling, Involved in Python open source community and passionate about bringing machine learning, deep reinforcement learning to business.
Favourites
- Food: Biriyani
- Artist: AR Rahman
- Place: Spain
- Movie: Pursuit of Happyness
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Chief Customer Officer at PepTalk.
Favourites
- Food: Steak, Mexican
- Artist: 90s R&B / Rap and classic American rock
- Place: Colorado Rockies
- Movie: The Goonies / Back to the Future



3 years in television & broadcasting before switching to B2B and B2C relationship management where I've been the past 10+ years. Spent 5+ years scaling early stage startups plus developing and scaling SMEs to flourish in a digital world
Favourites
- Food: Anything Italian
- Artist: Hozier
- Place: Venice:
- Movie: The Godfather or American Gangster


Postgraduate in retail management with 9+ years of experience in sales and business development in various industries. Run my own startup for two years.
Favourites
- Food: Indian Cuisine
- Artist: AR Rahman
- Place: Maldives
- Movie: Life is Beautiful
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Why PepTalk?
PepTalk was built to make work infinitely better. Like any startup, it took us a little while to figure out what better looked like, but we got there!
We build technology for teams. We create an environment for teams to thrive through shared experiences, understanding, and trust.
Being part of a great team is hard to describe; it's a feeling, a sense of belonging. It makes you give a little more. It energizes and inspires.
What if everyone could feel that? Be a part of something special. Be that difference.
That is PepTalk. A team experience (TX) platform for the modern workplace. The difference between good and great.

The History of PepTalk
How PepTalk was formed and where we are going.
The PepTalk product launches, we land our first customer, establish PepTalk HQ in Dublin Ireland and start adding new customers and ‘peeps’ to the team.
PepTalk surpasses over 15,000 platform users and reaches over 19 countries. We launch our UK office.
PepTalk raises €1.2 million in seed funding to support global growth ambitions. Global customers include Northern Trust, Paypal and Global Payments. Our headcount and revenues double in just 12 months. We are now over 25 peeps!
PepTalk’s biggest product refresh launches with a new team focus. Team Check-In and PepTalk Paths create a unique team-centred environment to build trust and belonging in your teams.
PepTalk is ranked 19th in The Deloitte 2022 Technology Fast 50 Awards in November.
PepTalk lands a major funding round of $3.6 million to fuel U.S. expansion.


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