About

Damian Maloney believes that ‘there is a certain amount of confidence you need in order to practice as an in-house lawyer’, and if so his career successes so far show that he has this in abundance. After a six-year stint in private practice, Maloney took on an in-house role with Oracle as a senior legal counsel for EMEA where he amassed a wealth of corporate legal expertise in an in-house setting. He moved to logistics management company Element Fleet Technology (an Ireland-based start-up and subsidiary of the larger Canadian firm Element Fleet Management) in July 2016 and has relished the opportunity to build a top-quality team from the ground up. ‘One of the great highlights of my career has been being afforded the chance in my latest role to get under the hood of the software development projects as part of a three member leadership team. To grow something from where we had an empty office and no policy or procedure to fitting it out, hiring staff and experiencing all aspects of starting a business along the way has been incredibly rewarding’, says Maloney. Now, the company is well-established, and Maloney goes into its complex business operations: ‘We act as the vendor of IT services within the group, and work with the company’s product management teams and what the needs of their customers are. We are set up very independently in Ireland and interact with North America as a customer’. Maloney feels his skillset makes him well placed to play a key role in taking the company forward too. ‘The marriage of corporate legal, structuring and IT’, he concludes, ‘suits the company’s current legal needs very well’.