Joe co-founded Ion Equity, a corporate finance firm and private equity investor, and took a leading role in most of its investments and exits. He has filled a number of non-executive and executive positions on portfolio companies. Joe has been involved in the energy, services and film studio sector. He led the investment into what has become Ireland’s premier TV and film production group by taking significant stakes in Troy Studios in 2015 and subsequently spearheading the buyout of Ardmore Studios in 2018 and its subsequent sale to HCP.
Since the Ardmore/Troy exit in 2021 Joe is involved in an MBO of a post-production services company, Shelbourne Football Club and the development of its future plans and a climate project “Merlin Rock” which is currently remediating a large bog in Mayo.