Builder. Commercialiser. Founder.

18 years taking AI from prototype to revenue — inside global financial services, academia, and now Zenchise. The full journey is relevant here.

Education PhD Engineering · University College Dublin
Education MBA Distinction · Trinity College Dublin
Industry VP · Global Investment Bank, EMEA
Faculty UCD Professional Academy
Faculty Dublin Business School
Patents 2 US-granted patents · DCU

Charles E. Nwankire

Founder, Zenchise · PhD · MBA · Serial Founder

I've spent 18 years at the intersection of AI, engineering, and financial services — not just building systems, but taking them to market. Before founding Zenchise, I led AI product commercialisation at one of the world's largest banks: zero to €500K ARR, 750+ enterprise clients onboarded across EMEA. I steered the product through internal Data Councils, Compliance, Legal, and Risk sign-off to achieve regulatory clearance — which means I understand exactly what it takes to get AI deployed inside a regulated organisation, not just built.

Earlier in my career I led fraud analytics at Bank of Ireland, where my team's machine learning models delivered €4M+ in annual impact. I hold a PhD in Engineering from UCD, an MBA with Distinction from Trinity, two US-granted patents, and have 40+ peer-reviewed publications with 1,000+ citations. I founded my first company — SensoMapp, a health-tech data analytics startup — well before the current AI hype cycle. I teach AI, automation, and data strategy at UCD Professional Academy and Dublin Business School. Zenchise is the synthesis of all of it: a company I can build, sell, and scale.

€500K ARR
Zero to revenue, EMEA
750+ enterprise clients · AI product commercialisation at a global bank
€4M+
Annual revenue impact
Fraud analytics ML models at a major Irish bank
2 US Patents
Granted · DCU
Microfluidic devices · US9295990B2 · US10537890B2
2× Founder
Serial founder
SensoMapp (health-tech analytics) · Zenchise (compliance AI)

How I work

Zenchise is deliberately lean — I take on a limited number of engagements so I do the work myself, not a junior. I'll tell you honestly if I can't help, or if the approach you're considering isn't the right one. If you're thinking about a partnership, investment, or commercial collaboration — I'm building this to scale, and I've done it before.

750+ Enterprise clients, EMEA
300+ Professionals trained
1,000+ Research citations
2 US Patents granted

Small by design. Built to scale.

Zenchise is an Irish applied AI company. We build AI products and deliver advisory and training for compliance-heavy sectors. We are lean, focused, and honest about where we are — ZenComplyAI is in active pilot, ZenChise Academy is taking bookings, and Enterprise Advisory is open to a small number of clients.

The long-term goal is SaaS products that keep working after we leave the room — tools that automate the compliance work currently consuming skilled people's time and creating regulatory risk at scale. If you're building something where that goal intersects with yours, the conversation is open.

Let's talk.

30 minutes. No deck. Tell us the problem and we'll tell you honestly if we can help.