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OEB speaker Harry McCarney

Harry McCarney

Tech Mentor and Managing Director, Tech Mentor and Managing Director at Hack&Craft, Germany

Harry is the founder and Managing Director of Hack and Craft GmbH. Hack and Craft has built a wide range of innovative products for startups and aspirational fortune 500s. Through lean methodology and Hyper agile software development Hack and Craft has driven iterative change and innovation in companies like Axel Springer, Azko Nobel and Red Bull.

Prior to founding Hack & Craft Harry consulted with some of the largest financial corporations in the world where he built algorithms for the London Stock Exchange and the UK government. In the digital space Harry has architecteced web apis, big data solutions and anti-fraud systems for companies like Zanox, Rocket internet and edarling.

Alongside corporate work he has also founded and invested in several startups including the first EU community crowd funding site friendfund.com. Harry has degrees in Philosophy and Artificial intelligence and has mentored at Google for Entrepreneurs and the Microsoft Tech accelerator. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.