About Us

Meet The Team

About Us

Equine MediRecord is a system designed to take the pain out of conforming to regulation on your training yard. Our system makes it quick and painless to keep the medicines register up to date, giving you certainty that you are in compliance with regulation, meaning you can spend more time training racehorses and less time filling out paperwork.

The company from its inception has been supported by a number of trainers and vets who had expressed their desire for a system that would aid them to stay compliant with the regulatory burden placed upon them. Equine MediRecord is a trainers initiative to aid them with the day-to-day medicines regulatory paperwork.

Simon Hillary & Pierce Dargan of Equine MediRecord

TEAM

Who We Are

Simon Hillary

Chief Technology Officer

Simon is a graduate of TCD in Computer Science & Business. He previously worked as an independent consultant specialising in Web Design & Development with a focus on UX. Simon worked with the Oireachtas enabling workflow optimisation through IT, digitising paper processes

Pierce Dargan

Chief Executive Officer

Pierce is a third generation racehorse owner and breeder. He is a scholarship graduate from Trinity College Dublin, and received a first class honours in a MSc in Business and Management. He has previous experience in sales with Red Bull and Tilt.com.

Finlay Dargan

Chief Operations Officer

Finlay Dargan is a graduate of TCD and HEC, Paris with a MSc in International Business. He worked in Private Equity for Lonsdale Capital before joining KPMG’s Global Strategy Group in London. He is a chartered accountant.

Board of Advisors

Donal Boylan

He is involved in the horseracing industry as an owner. Based in Hong Kong he serves as CEO of Bohai Capital Holding’s holding company owning Avolon, the third largest aircraft lessor worldwide, and SEACO, the second largest sea container globally and Chairman of The Ireland Fund of China. Mr Boylan previously had 25 years of aerospace and defence industry experience where he originally held engineering positions and progressed to commercial and c-suite.

Eugene Brazil:

Currently Eugene is a retail consultant and is supporting Arcadia CEO and Executive team. Eugene has 25 years of experience in retail and was Managing Director of Argos Home Shopping where he headed the team that managed Argos Direct through its largest growth phase from £387m to £610m in sales and £87m in profit.

Hugh Dillon

Head Veterinary Surgeon of Troytown. He has a specialist qualification in Equine Stud Medicine and has extensive experience in diagnosing. He was extensively involved in the European rules on drug availability to treat horses not intended for food consumption.

Michael Grassick

Currently Michael serves as the Chief Executive of the Irish Trainers’ Association since 2012. Michael first came to prominence in racing as an amateur rider, but his true calling proved to be training, and having taken out his training licence to train in the mid-80’s, was one of the most experienced trainers in the country.

Awards

Google Adopt A Startup Cohort 2018

Business All-Star Accreditation for Regulatory Technology courtesy of the All-Ireland Business Summit

Winner of Best Overall Startup Serving the Thoroughbred Industry, Most Innovative Initiative in the Thoroughbred Industry and Under 30s Best Business for Breeders at the ITBA Expo 2018.

Winner of Number One Draft Pick Startup Competition at One Zero Conference 2017, one of the largest sports technology conferences in Europe.

Equine MediRecord named ‘One to Watch in 2018’ for startup companies by Tech Ireland in their report ‘The State of Innovation Nation’.

Winner of Innovation in Business Award at the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Chamber County Business Awards 2017.

Winner of Trinity’s Incubator Programme, Trinity Launchbox 2017.

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