Copy of Dave Hammond - Founder Profile

Dave Hammond
Founder of Aevum Intelligence
Commercial leadership in regulated markets. Building neutral evidence infrastructure for enterprise AI.
Dublin-based founder with more than twenty years across telecoms, media and technology, working through Ireland, Scandinavia, the United States and Asia-Pacific with enterprises where commercial opportunity and regulatory responsibility meet. Today developing Aevum Intelligence, a pre-seed venture helping enterprises demonstrate what their AI-enabled and automated systems actually did.
20+ years in TMT
Telecoms, media and technology across Ireland, Scandinavia, the US and Asia-Pacific
Commercial leadership
Senior roles at O2/Telefónica Ireland, Three Ireland and Digicel APAC
Evidence, not promises
Connecting policy to the activity, controls and outcomes that actually occurred
MBA, UCD Dublin
Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Why I Started Aevum
As enterprises give AI and automated systems greater responsibility for decisions that affect customers, money and safety, a difficult question follows: when an action is challenged, how will they demonstrate what actually happened?
A policy describes an intended process. Evidence connects that process to the activity, control, human review and outcome that actually occurred. Closing that gap between what was intended and what happened is the problem Aevum is built to solve.
Over roughly the past year, I have researched and developed Aevum's business strategy, evidence architecture, regulatory-market analysis and funding plan. That work has narrowed our first opportunity to a single safer-gambling evidence workflow in Ireland, with a broader ambition across regulated enterprises.
Aevum is designed to complement the technologies enterprises already use, giving them a neutral way to organise and present operational evidence. My background supports this: senior commercial leadership at O2/Telefónica Ireland, Three Ireland and Digicel APAC, earlier work at Communicorp, Disney/ABC and SBS Scandinavia, and an MBA from the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School at UCD.
Career Timeline
Commercial leadership in regulated markets, now applied to AI accountability.
Communicorp Group
Early career in TMT within Denis O'Brien's media organisation.
Disney/ABC & SBS Scandinavia
European Sales Director roles leading international media and advertising partnerships.
Early-stage tech ventures (US & Europe)
Commercial lead bridging media and technology, with hands-on product and go-to-market experience.
O2/Telefónica Ireland
Senior commercial leadership in mobile and data products.
Three Ireland
Senior commercial positions in a highly competitive, regulated mobile market.
Digicel (Asia-Pacific)
Head of Mobile & Digital, leading data-driven products across regulated markets in the region.
Aevum Intelligence
Founder of a pre-seed venture helping enterprises demonstrate what their AI and automated systems actually did.
Why Aevum, Why Now
Enterprises are giving AI and automated systems greater responsibility, yet few can show what happened when an action is questioned. Aevum Intelligence is a pre-seed venture building neutral evidence infrastructure to close that gap.
Boards, regulators and enterprises need evidence-grade oversight of high-risk systems without exposing proprietary models, data or competitive advantage.
ComplyIQ — Enterprise evidence
Organises authorised records of system activity, applicable controls and human oversight.
AevumReep — Regulator Evidence Export Protocol
Packages approved evidence for controlled sharing with authorised reviewers.
RegIQ — Regulatory review
Enables authorised reviewers, including regulators, to inspect the evidence provided.
These are proposed capabilities. Aevum remains at pre-seed, with technical feasibility and customer value still to be demonstrated.
2027: Build & Prove
The Plan
Preparing to raise pre-seed funding to enable technical leadership and a focused development programme. Work begins with customer validation and authorised data access, then moves through architecture and security assessment, a bounded MVP, controlled replay and pilot readiness. A live pilot depends on an appropriate partner, permissions and demonstrated readiness.
What We Need to Learn
The programme must establish whether Aevum can produce useful, traceable evidence at an acceptable integration cost, and whether enterprises will pay for that maintained capability.
Customer validation
Authorised data access
Security and architecture assessment
Pilot readiness with a partner
Why Ireland, With International Ambition
Ireland
Concentrated stakeholder access, a developing gambling-regulatory environment and an AI Office coordinating national AI Act implementation.
Template Factory
A reusable evidence spine with regulatory mappings and disclosure controls, adapted for each market.
Sequence
Ireland gambling first, then the UK and Malta. Insurance is the intended second vertical.
Regulatory Sandboxes
Ireland's investment in regulatory capability gives the Ireland-first thesis clearer institutional context.
Discipline
Prove one useful workflow and test whether it can be repeated before committing to wider expansion.
The ambition is international. The immediate discipline is to prove one useful workflow and test whether it can be repeated before wider expansion.
Built on Evidence, Not Promises
Aevum is intended to complement existing enterprise technology, providing a neutral way to organise and present operational evidence.
Governance
The enterprise retains control of evidence release, with integrity and provenance controls preserving traceability.
Minimal disclosure
Designed to limit unnecessary exposure of proprietary systems and personal data, subject to lawful requirements.
Authorised review
Evidence can be inspected by authorised reviewers, including regulators, through a controlled protocol.
Core Expertise
Commercial Leadership
Senior commercial roles at O2/Telefónica Ireland, Three Ireland and Digicel APAC, growing revenue in complex, regulated markets.
Media & Enterprise Partnerships
European Sales Director roles at Disney/ABC and SBS Scandinavia, plus early-stage technology ventures in the US and Europe.
Regulated Accountability
Operating in environments where organisations must explain their actions and demonstrate how their controls operated.
Education & Location
Academic Background
MBA from UCD's Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, bringing a commercial founder's perspective to Aevum. Technical leadership and specialist expertise are central to the planned next stage.
Location
Based in Dublin, Ireland. Working with partners and stakeholders across Ireland, the UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Let's Connect
I welcome conversations with prospective investors, regulated enterprises, technical leaders and potential research or delivery partners interested in Aevum's next stage.
Based in Dublin, Ireland.
Email: davethammond@gmail.com
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