Louise Ireland
Founder of Metabase Q
Louise Ireland
Founder of Metabase Q
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder, President & COO
2019 - Current
Metabase Q is creating a more connected and secure future by taking proactive security to the next level. Enterprises around the world trust Metabase Q’s Batuta for IT cybersecurity management. Metabase Q is part of the World Economic Forum Global Innovators Community and the Center for Cybersecurity and is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, go to: https://www.metabaseq.com/
Founder
2017 - 2019
Launched one of the first low-cost location-based virtual reality centers globally in Mexico. At our peak pre-COVID, we operated multiple centers across Mexico along with a content partnership with Mattel and thousands of users a week.
Chief Strategy Officer
2017 - 2017
Partnered with Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, to bring the future of virtual reality - multi-player, spatial, fully immersive virtual reality - to the masses.
Venture Capital Investor
2015 - 2017
Investor in later-stage investments across the technology industry, including enterprise software, Internet and mobile. Invested & worked with companies such as Glossier, Tala, Personal Capital, SoFi, Tanium, Anomali, Oportun, Pindrop, Prosper, The Honest Company.
Investment Banking Associate (FIG)
2015 - 2015
M&A, restructuring, debt & equity offerings for specialty finance companies with a focus on tech-enabled lending, consumer finance and commercial finance. Early promoted after two years to Associate Lead junior on the ~$260 billion restructuring of GE Capital. Worked closely with senior leadership across key divisions in the bank July 2015: Divestiture of GE Sponsor Finance | http://bloom.bg/1BVVjYQ Dec 2015: Divestiture of GE Healthcare Financial Services | http://bit.ly/1NBzZO9 Apr 2015: Restructuring ~$260B of GE Capital assets | http://nyti.ms/1citNOM August 2014: JPM Divestiture of One Equity Partners | http://nyti.ms/1lPLK5u July 2014: $3.0Bn IPO of Synchrony Financial (GE Retail Finance) | http://nyti.ms/1o5RWdy January 2014: $1.8Bn IPO of Santander Consumer USA | http://bloom.bg/1PUJmtX
Investment Banking Analyst (FIG)
2013 - 2015
Investment Banking Summer Analyst
2012 - 2012
High Frequency Trading Analyst
2011 - 2011
Supported research and development of high frequency relative value and momentum trading strategies through extensive studies on order flow and volume imbalances in market microstructure
Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2009 - 2013