‘Build good relationships with influential people’

Each week we profile one of Ireland’s foremost corporate leaders, tracing their career to date and exploring the lessons they have leaned along the way. This week we meet Barry Morris of NuoDB

Barry Morris, president and chief executive of tech firm NuoDB Picture: Jason Clarke

Barry Morris is the South African-born president and chief executive of NuoDB, a US tech firm that recently announced plans to set up a development centre in Dublin for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Morris lives in Boston, where he co-founded NuoDB in 2010 with Jim Starkey.

The company is developing a web-based SQL database management system for big companies. It will create 50 engineering and tech support jobs in Dublin ...