About Us
Find out the story behind Sonas. How the startup was founded, how it found its purpose and grew into the market leading software it is today.
Our Story
How Sonas got started
Back in 2014, Emmet Hannan was at a family dinner in Ireland. He had spent a long time looking for software that could help him manage and run his multi-venue event business. He casually mentioned this to his family, who suggested he talk to his nephew Mark, an experienced developer.
Mark was happy to get on board with this exciting project. What started as an idea developed into a whole business. Since then, Mark and his co-founder Richard have expanded and developed Sonas into one of the most complete event management solutions on the market, ensuring every wedding runs like clockwork.
The name Sonas comes from the Irish word meaning “happiness” and “good fortune”. That's exactly what Sonas embodies both for the venue and for the couples.
Our Mission
Filling a Gap in the market
There are a lot of generic event management apps out there and a long list of wedding planner tools for couples. However, very few of them focus on the venue's needs and almost none of them were built hand in hand with wedding venue owners. This is where Sonas is different.
Our goal is to create an ever more powerful solution for wedding venues. One that helps lighten the load through smart automations, that keeps staff and tasks synchronised and that unifies all communications in one place be they with suppliers, couples or team members. We want to make complex wedding planning simple. And we want to make every wedding perfect.
Team
Meet the team that makes Sonas what it is.
Holly Anagnostopoulos
Customer Success Manager
Antonio Castelli
Senior Developer
Emmet Hannan
Business Development
Pierre Larose
Marketing Director
Robin Longman
Sales & Business Development Manager
Mark Lynch
Co-Founder & Technical Director
Richard Lynch
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Ana Zdravković
Graphic Designer
Support Received
This Project was supported by the Local Enterprise Office Limerick through co-founding from the Irish Government and the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020. The project contributes to the SME support, promotion and capability development theme of the ERDF co-funded programme.
