Larry Doyle — Leading the Leaf Ireland Team

Larry Doyle formally takes the reins as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Leaf Ireland in 2020 as the successful Belfast UK based managed services company expands into Ireland. Leaf already had several Ireland based customers but since Larry’s appointment it has seen a rapid acquisition of successful Republic based clients.

“We have been working with DMQ Accountants for the past couple of months. They are a startup with 6 employees and wanted to outsource all IT.’’ Larry explains. “They wanted to ensure their systems were secure, so they came to us.’’

Another new client is Mitchell McDermott QS. In this case, the business was well established with 45 employees. However, they were unhappy with their current IT provider and asked Leaf, and Larry, to provide an independent audit. “Again, we went through the set up and made recommendations on how they could improve efficiencies as well as creating a secure environment. Sensitive client data required a secure network.”

Larry joins Leaf with an impressive IT and communications-based resume. Larry had always been very keen on computers and self-taught himself at a young age. At the age of 12 his local rural primary school in county Wicklow got its first computer. He became fascinated with technology and being the practical man that he was meant he did not go to study computers in college after school but opted for a hands-on course with Nixdorf in Bray, Co Wicklow. Nixdorf was at the time about the third largest computer manufacturer in the…