Meet the Team

Mike Webster is CEO and founder of Arvoia and is privileged to work with some of the most talented people in the most exciting companies in the world, across Mobility, Telco, Travel and Hospitality. Together they are building the world’s largest independent behavioural cloud. After spending two decades working for multi-billion dollar companies in fintech, tech and software and having earned his stripes founding two other start-ups Mike knows what will make companies, their customers and their communities' lives better. It’s not about the latest tech – it’s understanding the value of every person's behavioural footprint and how that should be treated. Mike is passionate about forging a new way to use behavioural data for economic and social good through the ethical and democratic application of powerful technology. Mike leads the most extraordinary team in Arvoia whose light shines way brighter than his - all he has to do is point that light where it counts the most.

Mike lives in Kenmare in Ireland and is a keen waterman, spending his spare time surfing, windsurfing, swimming, sailing and paddle boarding. Mike has a Bachelors of Technology from the University of Limerick, an MBA from the Michael Smurfit Graduate school of Business and also completed the summer strategy program at Harvard Business School.

As the CTO at Arvoia, David is responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of the technology we use to make a difference. Given the nature of how we use behavioural data he focuses on impact, scale, security and our time to market as we continue to grow our business across sectors and geographies. Ultimately Arvoia succeeds through the combination of addressing real business needs, building a world class team and harnessing the latest tech – in Arvoia David spans these aspects with a relentless focus on empowerment and investment in our team and on the customer impact.

David brings a proven track record of success in technology where he has worked across all aspects of the delivery lifecycle. His background includes a decade with Accenture working in a wide range of roles in business transformation, IT architecture and programme management across a number of blue chip clients as well as IT leadership where prior to Arvoia he held the CIO position at Vodafone Ireland.  He brings strong collaboration skills to the table and a deep expertise in strategic planning, IT architecture, customer-centric delivery and operational support.

Outside of work, David enjoys an unhealthy interest in fantasy football, movies and books as well as enjoying the social life of Dublin in pre-pandemic days.

As Arvoia optimises revenues for its clients through customer behaviours and insights, Elaina ensures the financial performance of Arvoia is also optimised. Since joining Arvoia, she has been instrumental in developing the company’s financial reporting and planning models/systems.

A Chartered Accountant with extensive national and international experience, Elaina’s professional background covers both audit (EY) and commercial environments, from start-ups through to multinationals. Her responsibilities in prior roles have been diverse including international expansions, group restructuring, financial system implementations and debt restructuring.

Besides her passion for delivering exceptional financial results, Elaina enjoys Yoga, Pilates, swimming and spending time with family and friends.

Robyn's solution-driven approach is grounded in a belief that the application of relevant and scalable technology combined with brilliant execution is the key to consistently delivering extraordinary customer experiences. Having led remarkable teams across a range of industries including Entertainment, Telco, Mobility, Travel, Logistics and Sustainability, this consistency in mindset and execution approach has resulted in the successful delivery of multiple technology solutions, from conceptualisation to realisation.

Since joining Arvoia, Robyn has led a multi-million Euro partnership programme delivering cloud-based aggregation in car rental and has implemented a large number of key initiatives in our delivery and methodology processes focused on automation, behaviour-driven AI models and rapid deployment approaches.

With a degree in Clinical and Organisational Psychology, Robyn’s keen interest in team dynamics and behavioural understanding combined with her love of technology disruption motivates her to be a passionate advocate for Arvoia’s vision: the use of behavioural data for economic and social good through the ethical and democratic application of powerful technology!

When she’s not consumed with books on climate change, Robyn can be found outdoors, encouraging (i.e. forcing) her kids to relish the wonders of the natural world.

Paul brings a wealth of scientific research and development experience to the Arvoia platform. He believes that bringing this scientific rigour and methodology through testing and experimentation and combining this with behavioural understanding and economics is the foundation of the Arvoia Behavioural Cloud. This approach significantly enhances the data output to deliver a superior user experience for our customers as well as elevating data to knowledge and eventually business wisdom for our customers and clients.

Drawing on his biological sciences experience, Paul understands the intricate and subtle connections between data points to create a working ecosystem. This is constantly applied in our Systems Thinking application design paradigm and creates systems with loose domain borders, which allow almost infinite extensibility. Paul has extensive experience in a wide variety of domains, and brings this knowledge and experience to bear in designing and authoring massively scalable applications and systems currently used across the globe.

Outside of his focus on scientific research Paul enjoys many forms of water sports, as well as macro photography, building guitars, and tinkering with robotics.

As VP of Data Science at Arvoia, Dr. Susie Harding has been leading the development of the Arvoia behavioural cloud over the last number of years. This includes the development of our proprietary 6D behavioural framework to transform raw data into behavioural data & understanding, the identification of key behaviour-driven AI use cases to solve problems in the Car Rental, Mobility, Hospitality & Telco sectors as well as introducing an end-to-end predictive modelling recommendations framework which puts Arvoia at the forefront of deep learning and behavioural insight.

With more than 10 years of experience Susie has a unique combination of theoretical expertise from her years completing a PhD in biostatistics at University College Dublin, coupled with experience building big data, behavioural science-driven AI solutions at some of the world’s largest online gaming sites such as PokerStars, Full Tilt and Matchbook.

Susie lives with her husband James in Charleville, North Cork and loves travelling, watching documentaries & spending time with family.