About Us

C-Ads, operates a new, innovative network that provides a broadcast experience in an out of home environment. Staffed by a dedicated team of professionals C-Ads is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Featuring quality digital daylight viewable LCD screens and high fidelity speakers, the C-Ads narrowcast TV network is designed to engage and entertain motorists while they are on the petrol forecourt. The narrowcast network provides a wide range of content such as news, sports and entertainment, traffic and weather which inform and entertain consumers.

The C-Ads network delivers high-value messages to an audience that is captive and engaged. It provides advertisers with a platform that is flexible and measured and which delivers these messages in very innovative ways. C-Ads features the latest multimedia technologies, including live video streaming to deliver breaking news which is updated continuously throughout the day.

As a turn-key solution for forecourt retailers, C-Ads network is an ideal way to improve customer loyalty, drive c-store sales and improve financial performance.

Management

The management team has extensive experience in the advertising and technology sectors.

Liam McGrattan (Executive Chairman)

Liam has a background in sales and finance, and successfully launched Custom Finance Ltd., a specialist leasing company. He has specialised in the Small-Cap Equities Market for the last ten years. Liam has been involved in a number of highly successful private and publicly quoted companies on the Plus Markets Group and the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. Liam is a Non-Executive Director of Great Western Mining Corporation a gold and uranium mining exploration company which is listed on the Plus Market in London. He is also Chairman and Managing Director of Wilhan Limited, a Dublin based private investment company. Liam studied French and Swedish at University College Dublin.

Brian McDonnell (Director)

Brian has spent the last 22 years working in advertising, training and manufacturing industries. He was Managing Director of a number of companies including a manufacturing, management development and training company.

His experience in media covers exhibitions, print, ambient and cinema. He has also successfully brought many business to business products to the market. He brings many years of structured senior management experience, along with proven strategic and commercial skills in launching new media products into existing markets.

Lisa McDonnell (Director)

Lisa has a background in the advertising, market research, media and television production. She has managed a number of innovative projects in these areas in Ireland the United States. She is also a practicing psychotherapist and business coach.

Graham Curtis (Non-Executive Independent Director)

Graham has worked with the National Westminister Bank with responsibility for high value clients, pension fund portfolios and major trusts where the bank was either trustees or advisers to the clients. He then acted as Personal Financial Planning Manager for forty two West End of London branches including major investment business to the bank and winning the top new business award for two years.

In 1994, he was appointed new business manager for Coutts Private Bank of London with responsibility for developing new business from UK based clients. In 1997, he was appointed Coutts Middle East Private Bank Manager in the Gulf Region and eventually headed up the whole Middle East team in London. In 1998, Coutts Bank extended his remit adding their high value client base in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and selected clients in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Brunei. In 2003, he was given exclusive responsibility for the personal portfolios of the main Middle East ruling royal families until his retirement.

He now acts in a personal capacity as an independent adviser to a small number of selected high value families in the Middle East and Europe.