Mike Shelly is the CEO of Plusvital. Mike is a chemical engineer by background with an MBA from UCD Smurfit graduate school of business. He started his career in biotech where he worked in a number of operational and process engineering roles for Wyeth (now Pfizer) and Amgen in Ireland, Switzerland and the USA. Upon completion of his MBA, he joined a startup renewable energy company operating in the UK and Ireland in a business development/management position. Upon the successful trade sale of this business, Mike returned to Ireland where he joined Plusvital as Head of Business Development and he became CEO in early 2015. Mike is passionate about the vision of building a world-class equine science company based in Ireland and is far too tall to ride horses.