Team

Regulation expertise, not just software.

Buildregs is built by chartered fire and building control engineers alongside people who have shipped and scaled technology businesses. That combination is the point: the regulation knowledge is in the room, not bought in.

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Gareth Cuddy

Gareth Cuddy

Chief Executive

Founder, Bizmark.ie · Author, The Irish Exit

Gareth leads Buildregs. He founded and scaled Vearsa into Europe’s largest eBook distribution business, ran a $400m+ global P&L at John Wiley & Sons, and has advised and operated across growth-stage technology companies since.

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Gareth founded Vearsa in 2009 and grew it into Europe’s largest eBook distribution company, serving 500+ publishers and raising more than €20m. He then joined John Wiley & Sons as VP, Global Channel Partners, with responsibility for a $400m+ global P&L.

Since 2019 he has co-founded and advised growth-stage businesses including Storyhub, Store Automator, Housebuild.com, iRevise and Workvivo (acquired by Zoom), and is the founder of Bizmark.ie, Ireland’s confidential business marketplace. He is the author of The Irish Exit.

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Eoghain Ryan

Eoghain Ryan

Building Control & Certification

BE, MSc (Fire Safety), Dip, CEng MIEI, Cert in Accessibility

A Chartered Engineer and former Assistant Chief Fire Officer with over 25 years in building control, fire safety certification, energy, accessibility and assigned certification. Eoghain has delivered more than 4,000 projects across Ireland and the UK.

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Eoghain’s expertise spans the full project lifecycle, from design through to sign-off, consistently delivering complex, high-profile projects. His portfolio includes Carton House, Palmersgate, Merit Medical, Bonham Quay, Medtronic, ESB 220kV substations, water treatment plants and Irish Rail depots, alongside large residential and office schemes.

He has presented on building control at both the Dáil and Westminster, and is an industry leader in building control and building certification.

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Ailish Ryan

Ailish Ryan

Fire Engineering

BE, MSc (Fire Safety), MIEI, Cert in Accessibility

A fire safety engineer who has worked in private practice since graduating, with experience across both the UK and Ireland and a portfolio of high-profile projects in each market.

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Paul O’Hare

Paul O’Hare

Fire Engineering, UK

BEng (Hons), MSc Fire Safety Eng, CEng, CPEng, C.Build E MCABE, MIEI, IntPE

A Chartered Professional Fire Engineer with over 20 years of international experience on complex, high-rise developments across residential, commercial, healthcare, industrial and infrastructure sectors.

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Recognised for sound engineering judgement and strategic insight, Paul enables ambitious design while maintaining regulatory confidence and commercial viability, giving clear direction on complex fire safety challenges from concept through delivery and operational readiness.

His portfolio includes the 187m Seascape mixed-use tower, the 6 Green Star office at 61 Molesworth Street, the New Zealand Parliament Buildings, Sky Stadium, Department of Corrections modular prison programmes, and Emergency Department and Operating Theatre buildings.

He supports BSR regulatory assurance through Gateway reviews, and provides expert witness services and independent technical peer review, applying best practice gained across the UK, Irish, Australasian and North American markets.

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Ireland & United Kingdom

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