Profile: Alan Walsh, One51 chief executive

The One51 boss has pulled off a very public success. But just who is he?

Alan Walsh. Illustration: Peter Hanan

Factfile

Age:38

Appearance: a sporty accountant; remarkably young for a chief executive.

Newsworthiness: has just done a big deal in Canada and received an offer for One51 which values the company at €288 million

Close to 350 angry investors filed into the ballroom of the Shelbourne Hotel. It was July 28, 2010, and all of them were nursing heavy losses on their investment in One51, a disparate investment company founded five years earlier ...