Goff Lalor

Goff Lalor has founded a number of successful companies with over 30 years broad expertise in all aspects of growing successful businesses and has extensive experience as a CEO and board member. He has direct experience and extensive interests in Internet Marketing and Private Equity and Venture Capital Funding, Real Estate Development, Renewable Energy and the Hospitality and Leisure Industry. Having built and grown a number of successful businesses, in the mid 1980’s Goff started to invest in property and continued to do so through the 1990’s primarily in Ireland up until 2002 when he decided to move the focus of his investment to other countries. In 2004 he invested in property in St Jean Cap Ferrat in France with an exit in early 2008. He has shifted his primary focus since 2008 towards internet investments and now devotes his energies to acceleration and funding of Growth Stage Internet based companies as a senior partner with Punchlime. He has in the past acted as an Angel Investor and currently advises many startup and early stage companies on strategic business development, marketing etc and generally drawing upon his wealth of entrepreneurial experience. He says: “I enjoy working with positive, motivated people with a "can do" attitude who understand how to work as a team and I believe that the fundamental purpose of business should be not just to make money, but to contribute to and to benefit humanity and society.” Favourite quote: “Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much” (Helen Keller American author 1880 – 1968).