Claire McHugh
Claire McHugh is the CEO and co-Founder of Axonista.
Claire McHugh
Claire McHugh is the CEO and co-Founder of Axonista, along with Daragh Ward.
Axonista was founded in 2010 by Claire McHugh and Daragh Ward, from a shared vision for how video storytellers could use touchscreen devices to interact with their viewers.
Axonista’s technology is the engine behind some of the world’s biggest video streaming apps, used by hundreds of thousands of people every day around the world. Axonista’s interactive video technology is used to power video commerce, local news, environmental activism and cultural film archives.
Claire has a career spanning sports TV and digital media and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Irish Film Institute, and of Scale Ireland. She participates as an expert evaluator in the European Innovation Council and Creative Europe Media funding programmes.
She was recognised as IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year, Digital, Science and Technology in 2017.