Dr. Byrne is a multilingual practicing barrister with a Ph.D in law and acts as Legal Counsel and Operations Lead. He has worked for many years in a commercial law environment across a variety of areas within growing businesses including with regards Intellectual Property, legal commercialization and corporate governance. He has published almost 100 articles in peer-reviewed publications across a wide-variety of subject matters. He is fluent in Portuguese and speaks as Gaeilge as well as reading in several other languages including German and Spanish.