John Cadell

John is a consultant/non-Executive director to a number of early stage EdTech businesses and a former CEO of Folens Publishers, the market leader in Irish schools educational publishing. Since its foundation in 1958, Folens have been at the forefront of innovation in educational publishing in Ireland. John is also a founding member of Leaf Investments, the Folens investment vehicle who have gained a proven track record of investment in early stage education technology businesses. Over the last decade, Leaf has invested in a wide variety of verticals within the e-learning space including EmpowertheUser, a revolutionary behaviour-based talent platform and Immerse, a market leading Corporate Training Virtual Reality platform.