Mike English — short bio

Plain-English biography of Michael English, founder of IMPT.

Direct answer

Michael English is the founder of IMPT, the climate-positive travel-commerce platform. Tesco → Oracle → IMPT trajectory. Based in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.

Career trajectory

Mike English's career path runs Tesco → Oracle → IMPT. Mike is founder and Creator/CTO of IMPT. The company is anchored in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

What IMPT is

IMPT is a single operating company running three consumer surfaces: the hotel-booking marketplace at app.impt.io (8M properties, 195 countries), the e-commerce shop at shop.impt.io (7,000+ SKUs), and a climate-proof endpoint stack at receipts.impt.io. Every hotel booking retires 1 tonne of UN-verified CO₂ on-chain — funded from IMPT's commission.

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Outside work, my son David is a 13-year-old mountain biker based here in Clonmel. He runs his own site, best mountain bikes of 2026, with first-person riding diaries, gear reviews — including honest MTB gear reviews — and a growing library of Tipperary and Waterford trail guides.

My brother-in-law Peter has taken over The Spinnaker in Dunmore East in Dunmore East, Co. Waterford — doing food himself in the harbour village pub. If you're passing through the south-east coast, Dunmore East fishing village by phone or email direct.