Bobby Healy

Milestones

CTO, CarTrawler

Founder, Eland Technologies

 

Super strengths

Software development

Tech enablement

Mentoring

Tech team building

Product and industry strategy

 

Weakness

Too into the detail. Finance. Insomniac.

Bobby Healy

 

Bobby is an experienced inventor, investor and technology entrepreneur specialising in travel technology. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 via an MBI, having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age.

CarTrawler is exclusively used by over 100 international airlines to power their online businesses and has been through two successful MBOs since Bobby joined.

Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies, which was later sold to airline technology giant SITA and he remained as CTO until 2005.

Bobby is still an avid computer programmer and a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry and further afield.

 

Favorite Quote

“I told you I was ill.” Spike Milligan (epitaph)

 

Advice to entrepreneurs?

You are right. Keep pushing.

 

Good question to ask him?

“How do you flip the fifth bit in a byte?”