The company was founded in 2014 as SmartFlow Compliance Solutions to fill a gap in the market: a solution that could monitor, track and identify unlicensed software usage anywhere in the world.
Company
Cylynt is an independent software vendor, and the producer of SmartFlow software. Founded in 2014, Cylynt is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with a subsidiary (Cylynt LLC) in California. Cylynt’s shareholders are private investors who are active stakeholders in the company.
Leadership team
Chris Luijten
CEO and Founder
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Chris founded Cylynt in 2014 after building a global services company (ITCA) in 2005 which offers software licensing compliance services. Before that, Chris was active in the Software Asset Management domain in the Netherlands as a pioneer in the industry.
For the past 15 years Chris has lived in the Caribbean from where he drives various environmental initiatives, such as a Mangrove Conservation NGO. Chris is also an active provider of seed capital into technology startups through his London-based investment fund.
Carl Daly
CTO
Carl has over 10 years’ experience in enterprise software design and implementation. He began his career with Irish start-up Information Mosaic, assisting tier 1 banks with corporate action automation.
With BAE Systems he designed a greenfield case management product for unauthorized trading detection, before moving to Murex to work on end-to-end development of their enterprise trading platform. Carl studied civil and structural engineering at TU Dublin and has an MSc in computer science from University College Dublin.
John Doupe
COO
John has over 25 years’ experience at senior executive level. Before joining Cylynt, John worked with SaaS start-up CCT Technology for 5 years and helped them scale their operations in Ireland, Europe and the USA.
John started his career in Information Technology before moving into staffing and recruitment, where he helped build a number of companies for IPO and acquisition. John returned to the technology sector in 2017 and is responsible for all operational activities in Cylynt. John is based in Dublin.
History
TRANSFORM SOFTWARE LICENSE MISUSE INTO COMPLIANT CUSTOMERS