Over the past 11 years, Ronan McAuley has been building Alkimii. The former head of IT at the Jurys hotel group and once a hotel owner himself, McAuley sought to address a technology gap within the hospitality industry. When he was navigating the Glenside Hotel in Drogheda, Co Louth through the fallout of the financial crash, he wanted to track and monitor the hotel’s finances in real time. But the solutions on the market weren’t up to scratch – so he built his own. Alkimii has grown significantly since it began in 2015 and counts 500 hotels, including The Cashel…