Maurice Roche
Maurice Roche joined Delta Partners in 1995 as an Associate and became a General Partner in 1997. He serves on a number of Boards including Hullomail, Polarlake, Tango Telecom, textHELP and Zapa Technology. He was also previously on the boards of Xiam (sold to Qualcomm) and Pxit (sold to Agilent) and O'leary's (sold to Gehe).
Since 1988, Maurice has been involved in corporate finance and equity investing. Before joining Delta, he was an Associate with Enterprise Equity, a venture capital fund focusing on development capital projects, where he led a number of investments. Prior to Enterprise Equity, he was a Manager in the Corporate Finance division of Simpson Xavier where he specialised in equity fundraising for development capital and management buyout opportunities.
A graduate of University of Limerick in Business Studies, he holds a postgraduate degree from University College Dublin and is qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He is the current Chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association and is a member of the Research Prioritisation Project Steering Group which is chaired by Jim O’Hara and due to report its finding to Government in October 2011.
