Cillian Hilliard

Cillian is a Director at Kennet Partners covering the UK and Europe. 

Cillian has a decade of experience investing and advising technology companies across Europe and the US. His exited deals include Caption Health (acquired by GE Healthcare), Swrve (acquired by MessageGears), Nuvia (acquired by Qualcomm), Atlantic Therapeutics (acquired by Caldera Medical), Semsysco (acquired by Lam Research) and Decawave (acquired by Qorvo).

Cillian currently leads Kennet portfolio companies Screendragon (work management platform for marketing teams), Grip (event management software) and ABA English (English language learning software). He also sits on the board of eStoremedia (eCommerce analytics platform), Fluid Topics (content delivery platform) and Scoro (professional services automation platform).

Before Kennet, Cillian was an Investor at Atlantic Bridge where he focused on Enterprise SaaS and Deep Tech investments across US, China and Europe and was an Associate at IBI Corporate Finance (now DC Advisory) where he focused on Financial Services and Technology M&A.

Cillian is a CFA Charter holder and received a First-Class Honours BSc in Economics & Finance from University College Dublin.