10/08/2026
🌱 Meet Norman Crowley
You've seen the name. Now get to know the entrepreneur behind it. 👇
Norman Crowley is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of CoolPlanet, a company focused on helping businesses reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions through technology and engineering.
But his entrepreneurial journey started long before climate technology.
Norman started his first business at just 16, a welding company in Cork that grew to employ several people. He went on to build Trinity Commerce, a technology business that grew significantly before being sold to Eircom in 1999.
He later went on to build and sell further technology businesses, including Inspired Gaming, with his businesses reportedly generating more than $750 million in total value before he turned 40.
Rather than stopping there, Norman turned his attention towards a challenge he felt was much bigger than business alone: climate change.
He founded what became CoolPlanet in 2009, developing a group of businesses focused on energy efficiency, decarbonisation and helping organisations make better use of technology and data. Today, CoolPlanet works with major organisations internationally on reducing energy use and emissions.
It's a journey that spans welding, technology, scaling businesses, exits and, ultimately, using entrepreneurship to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing the world.
We're delighted to have Norman joining us at Ambition '26 – The Entrepreneurial Experience.
Whether you're just starting out, scaling with the future in mind or thinking about where your business could go next, there's plenty of experience to learn from.
📅 31 August
🕥 10:30am–2:00pm
📍 GreenTech HQ
Come meet Norman and the rest of our speakers at Ambition '26.