Niall is a technologist and entrepreneur, with interests focused primarily in the mobile internet. 

He founded Thngy in September 2009, a venture creating the software environment for relating objects to internet resources - the internet of things.

Niall co-founded The Cloud in 2003, with a mission to realise a vision of mobile wireless broadband access for the mobile internet through WiFi technology.  The Cloud has today developed to be the leading public WiFi network in Europe, operating in 13 markets, serving millions of connections each month with innovative and integrated WiFi / 3G experiences.  Niall served as Chief Technology Officer and then as Chief Strategy Officer driving strategy, business development and M&A until June 2009, and is now a non executive main board director and shareholder.

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 feels privileged to have had the opportunity to contribute as a policy advisor on telecoms in South Africa in the early 90s through an African National Congress (ANC) think tank.  Following 1994 Niall continued to contribute to the changing South Africa formally and informally.

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