Michael O’Shea has been appointed chief operations officer of Delta Index, a new specialist financial spread betting company. O’Shea has 12 years’ experience in the software industry in Ireland and Silicon Valley. Delta Index (www.deltaindex.com) allows people to bet on the movement up or down of shares, Stock Market indices or currencies. O’Shea, who has worked in the US with Intel, Motorola and Vodafone, is an honours B.Sc graduate in Computer Science of UCC.