About Envaira
Built on experience.
Designed for what
comes next.
Envaira was founded by a team with deep experience across EHS compliance, regulatory technology and building businesses around complex regulatory challenges.
How Envaira began
A chance conversation.
A shared opportunity.
The idea for Envaira began to take shape in 2025 following a chance conversation on the bus journey home from a co-hosted IDA and Enterprise Ireland event in Waterford.
1. The conversation
On the bus home from a co-hosted IDA and Enterprise Ireland event, Eugene and Michael got talking. Eugene saw real untapped potential in how organisations manage EHS compliance. Michael had built regulated fintech platforms, where transparency, traceability and auditability are non-negotiable, and wondered why EHS hadn’t caught up.
2. The next meeting
Michael and Katie met for coffee at the Limerick City Gallery of Art and spent several hours on one question: what could a modern EHS compliance platform look like? Automation, AI and regulated technology could reduce the administrative burden and give EHS professionals time back for improvement.
3. The result
Those conversations became a shared vision: trusted EHS expertise, regulated technology, automation and AI, and genuine customer partnership, brought together to help organisations move from reactive compliance to a more proactive, insight-led approach.
Our approach
Compliance intelligence, not just another legal register.
We believe technology should make EHS professionals more effective, not remove the expertise and judgement that good compliance depends on.
Our platform combines technology and AI with expert-curated regulatory content to help organisations understand what applies to them, identify what has changed, evaluate compliance and maintain the evidence behind their decisions.
Expert-curated
Regulatory content you can trust.
Technology-enabled
Built for how EHS teams work.
Traceable
From legislation to evidence.
Meet the team
The people behind Envaira.
Envaira brings together experience from two worlds that don’t often meet: EHS regulatory compliance and regulated technology.
Michael O’Shea
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
A technology entrepreneur with a fintech background in platforms for highly regulated industries, Michael leads Envaira’s technology-driven approach to EHS compliance.
Eugene Cush
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
An IRCA-certified auditor with close to 15 years in EHS compliance, Eugene leads the vision and roadmap for Envaira’s AI-native EHS compliance platform.
Katie Vellner
Co-founder & Chief Revenue Officer
With over 15 years in the EHS and energy compliance software sector, Katie leads Envaira’s commercial strategy across sales, marketing, customer success and partnerships.
Nick Smyth
Director of Curation
With over 30 years of QEHS experience across industry leadership and consultancy roles, Nick leads the review and approval of Envaira’s legal registers, questionnaires and obligations.
Where we’re going
A more proactive, intelligent approach to compliance.
The number and complexity of regulations isn’t getting smaller. We’re building Envaira to help EHS teams move from finding and doing to reviewing and deciding, combining trusted expertise, technology and AI to make compliance more continuous, transparent and manageable.
And we’re only getting started.
See Envaira in action.
See how Envaira can help your organisation simplify legal compliance, stay ahead of regulatory change and give EHS teams greater visibility across sites and jurisdictions.