Seán Nevin is a Researcher with the University College Cork (UCC)/State Street Advanced Technology Centre. He is currently pursuing a PhD in financial technology, with particular interest in crowdfunding. Mr. Nevin’s research explores investor behavior and relationship building on emerging equity-based crowd investment platforms. His work has been published in proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems and the International Symposium on Open Collaboration. Mr. Nevin has a BSc degree in business information systems from UCC. He can be reached at seannevinucc@gmail.com.