Oliver is a founder of two health insurers, now merged to form Irish Life Health. He also co-founded Regulatory Capital, a provider of capital to insurers; Daon, a biometric identity provider and OneBigSwitch, a consumer switching platform. He is Chairman of Fadata, a European leader in insurance PaaS, and previously Brookson, a platform for independent contractors, both owned by Riverside, a US private equity company.
Oliver was an INED with BMW Financial Services and also served as INED with AGF International, a Canadian asset manager. He chaired several Government funded research centres and taskforces. He also served as INED and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of CPL Resources plc, a listed human resources company and chaired the Finance Committee at space researcher SETI in California.
Earlier, Oliver served as CEO of VHI, an insurance company, and as CEO of An Bord Trachtala, a state agency for SMEs. He co-founded a political party to campaign for a ‘yes’ vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum. He holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, a B.E. (Chem) from University College Dublin and speaks German and Portuguese.