Summary
Rowland O'connor is a veteran technology entrepreneur and CEO with 11+ years leading data-driven companies and over two decades building high-performance, scalable systems. He founded Email Hippo and Rolosoft, pioneering online bulk email validation and processing over 3.5 trillion addresses, and earned a Queen’s Award for Innovation in 2020. Known for solving “zero-search-results” problems, he thrives on inventing solutions where few footprints exist—turning messy, unpredictable human and data behaviours into reliable engineering products. His background spans distributed processing, cloud-native architectures, real-time anti-fraud systems and enterprise integrations for major retailers, demonstrating both hands-on development and strategic product leadership. Based in Launceston, England, he blends curiosity from a lifelong tinkerer with pragmatic commercial focus, hiring teams who can both imagine and ship. Not obvious at first glance: his career threads from power-industry project management to modern cloud services, giving him a rare mix of operational discipline and rapid-iteration engineering.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
'A' levels Science and Technology, 'A' levels Science and Technology at Farnborough Sixth Form College
HND Electronic & Electrical Engineering, HND Electronic & Electrical Engineering at Kingston University
English, French