Meet the
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland
Team

As CEO of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, Tara’s focus is to lead on SEI’s vision and strategy.

Tara brings a wealth of experience in entrepreneurship and the impact space. She is an organisational psychologist and development professional by background. Prior to joining the SEI team in late 2023 Tara had her personal journey with social entrepreneurship as founder of an independent school.

Tara loves spending time with family and friends, sea swimming, and yoga.

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.

Louise leads SEI’s Communications team. She has a muti-disciplinary background in PR, education and politics, and at SEI is responsible for developing and driving our communications strategy across all platforms and mediums. Louise is passionate about sharing and amplifying the stories of SEI and our alumni. In her spare time, Louise enjoys, baking elaborate cakes, cheering on her favourite sports teams and volunteering in her community.

Sophie has worked in the social sector since 2014 and has experience of working in both the charity and social enterprise space. She joined SEI in 2020 as Community Manager, began managing our Impact Programme in 2021 and has recently taken on the role of Programme Manager for the Changing Ireland Accelerator. Sophie’s favourite part of the job is working with passionate people and organisations and supporting them to achieve their goals. Outside of work, Sophie loves exploring new places (at home and abroad), singing and spending time with friends and loved ones (which of course includes her dog, Cooper!)

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.

Having worked and volunteered in the social sector since 2017, Éabha has experience of working closely with communities and people from many different backgrounds. Éabha leads on the early-stage programmes at SEI, supporting social entrepreneurs in building their social businesses. Éabha is really passionate about the arts so loves spending her time singing in choirs, taking photographs and discussing films and books!

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.

Tanya worked for many years in banking, healthcare and the not-for-profit sector in London. She returned to Ireland to use that experience to support social entrepreneurs to fulfil their potential. Tanya previously worked on the Development team managing relationships between corporate supporters providing financial and non-financial support to social entrepreneurs. On the Community Team she will manage support for social entrepreneurs from the SEI Community plus the development of an Investor Readiness Pathway for social entrepreneurs scaling their impact.
Tanya is mainly based in Dingle and loves good food, sea, sunshine, dance, music and travel. All of which can be found in Dingle … sometimes!

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.

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.

As part of SEI’s Communications team, Renée combines strategic thinking, creativity and technical expertise to communicate the story of SEI across all platforms and mediums. Renée has a B.A. in Communications Studies and a Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing and is passionate about all things digital and social media.

Outside of work, Renée loves travelling to different cities, reading and attending gigs (find her on the dance floor or behind the DJ booth).

As Development Assistant on SEI’s Development team Glen brings a background in media, customer service and community outreach, and is responsible for Relationship Management for Corporate Partners, Events and planning and support across the Development team.

Outside of work Glen can be found reading, whittling or watching movies.