Niall is a technologist and entrepreneur, with interests primarily in internet access, application and services technologies.

Niall is principal of Kubu Ventures, CEO of Ideaworks3D, Founder / CEO of Evrythng. He also has a number non executive roles. He was co-founder of The Cloud, acquired by British Sky Broadcasting in January 2011.

Niall founded Evrythng in late 2009 to provide a way for products and other objects to have persistent and active online presence, and is developing the venture with co-founder Andy Hobsbawm.

Niall invested in Ideaworks3D in early 2010 and took on the role of CEO, executing on a strategy to take the company’s multi-platform native application development technology to market.

Niall co-founded The Cloud in 2003 to realise a vision of a ubiquitous mobile internet enabled by low cost WiFi technology. The Cloud developed to be the leading public WiFi network in Europe, operating in 13 markets and serving millions of connections with integrated WiFi / 3G experiences. Niall served as Executive Director until July 2009 with responsibilities including technology & commercial strategy, major transactions, business development and acquisitions. He then served as a non-executive director on the board until the sale of the business to British Sky Broadcasting (a subsidiary of News Corporation) in January 2011.

Prior to The Cloud, Niall founded a number of digital media related businesses in South Africa - all now successfully sold off - including an online recruitment website called jobs.co.za and a messaging business called eMessageX. In 1994 at the age of 25 he founded a joint venture internet service provider in South Africa with Sprint, later sold to UUnet. In 1996 he co-founded The Digital Thinking Network in Amsterdam with Daniel Erasmus, a scenario planning consulting practice focused on technology driven change

Niall has authored and presented numerous papers around the world. He was a co-author of the International Roaming Access Protocols framework in 2005, adopted by IETF as a basis for seamless WiFi roaming.

Niall contributed as a policy advisor on telecoms in South Africa in the early 90s through an African National Congress (ANC) think tank.

Travelling extensively, Niall is a climber and mountaineer, a member of the Explorers Club and the Royal Geographic Society. Niall lives in Geneva with wife Tanya, sons Aaron and Zeb, and daughter Naomi.