In the early noughties, Jamie Walker spent years travelling back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, in the US and Arklow, Co Wicklow. Walker was in the process of building out what would eventually become the European hub of Elavon, the payment processing arm of American bank US Bank. “I pretty much called Arklow home for that period of time and spent a lot of time in Druid’s Glenn, which was a Marriott property back then,” the Philadelphian tells The Currency. “We had an office in Cherrywood, so it was in between the two places, and that’s where I cut my…

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