Angela Scanlon’s husband is Roy Horgan, an Irish businessman she married in County Wicklow in June 2014. The couple have two daughters and live in north London. He is 47, grew up in a family food business in Cork, and holds a senior job at Vusion, the retail technology company whose digital price labels now sit on supermarket shelves across Britain.
He is usually described as the private half of the marriage. That is not quite right. Horgan posts most weeks on LinkedIn, gives quotes to the retail trade press, and put his name to a Vusion event this summer that drew senior figures from Walmart’s international business. He talks plenty. He just does it in a room his wife’s audience never walks into, which is why the post he wrote about her last week was so out of character.
Table of Contents
Roy Horgan at a glance
| Age | 47, born July 1979 |
| From | Cork, Ireland |
| Lives | North London |
| Married | Angela Scanlon, June 2014 |
| Children | Ruby Ellen, 8, and Marnie Fae, 4 |
| Current role | Group SEVP for strategy, marketing and communications, Vusion |
| Earlier | Banking, co-founder of SolarPrint, founder of MarketHub Technologies |
| Net worth | Not publicly disclosed |
From banking to solar panels
Horgan went to Rockwell College in County Tipperary and studied finance at what is now Technological University Dublin, finishing in 2002. He spent the next six years in banking. On his LinkedIn profile he says he made vice president at 27 and worked on more than 2 billion euro of transactions across Ireland, Europe and North America. He does not name the bank, and that account is his own.
In August 2008 he co-founded SolarPrint in Dublin with Dr Mazhar Bari and Andre Fernon. The company built dye-sensitised solar cells small enough to power sensors indoors, and by 2011 it was working with Intel and Analog Devices. Horgan spent five years there as business development director before leaving in September 2013.
The company behind the supermarket price tags
By then he had already started MarketHub Technologies, founded in June 2013 with offices in Cork and London. His argument was that most shops cannot see what is happening on their own shelves. Talking to the Irish Times in September 2013, he said a retailer using MarketHub properly could lift sales by 3 to 5 per cent.
The product paired solar cells of the sort SolarPrint had been making with wifi-enabled electronic price tags from an Austrian manufacturer, Imagotag. Imagotag later merged into the French group SES-imagotag, and SES-imagotag spent years buying into MarketHub before completing a full takeover in January 2022. Horgan joined the group’s executive team that month, describing the goal as a self-learning store where shops could become “agile, smarter, and adapt.”
The company has since been renamed Vusion. Horgan runs strategy, marketing and communications for the group globally, a role listed on its investor relations page, on top of a UK and Ireland job he has held since 2018. He also advises the venture fund Astanor and chaired the gut health company The Gut Stuff from 2020 to 2024.
British shoppers have seen the result without knowing it. Vusion has just finished fitting 1.2 million electronic labels across all 517 Asda Express stores, replacing a weekly job that meant swapping more than 120,000 paper price tickets by hand.
How Angela Scanlon and Roy Horgan met
They met in 2010 through friends, when both were living in Dublin and SolarPrint was up and running. They married in June 2014, outdoors in Wicklow, at a ceremony RTE covered at the time, describing Horgan as an eco entrepreneur. Fair enough, for a man then running a solar company. Scanlon wore a custom gown by the Offaly designer Sorcha O’Raghallaigh, and kept her own name, which she still works under.
On their fourth anniversary she posted a wedding photograph and wrote that she had married “this absolute nugget of a human under a tree with all our favourite people heckling,” calling him “the kindest, smartest, most stubborn man I know.”
Their two daughters
Ruby Ellen arrived in February 2018. Marnie Fae followed in February 2022, five weeks after the MarketHub deal closed and Horgan started his current job. The Irish Examiner noted his Cork roots and his MarketHub background when the couple announced that second pregnancy.
Scanlon gave a short update on the girls in Dublin last month, at the launch of the Irish Champions Festival. “They’re great,” she said. “I have two, they’re four and eight. They keep me on my toes, wild as the night sky, but sure look, we wouldn’t have it any other way.”
The post that broke his silence
The couple are photographed together often enough. Press pictures place them at the Audi Polo Challenge in 2014, in the royal enclosure at Ascot in 2017, at the Royal Albert Hall in 2023 and at Wimbledon in 2024. What Horgan almost never does is say anything about the marriage.
That changed last week. Scanlon had interviewed Louis Theroux for a John Lewis podcast series, and her husband wrote about it on LinkedIn, to an audience of retail executives.
“I rarely post about my wife’s achievements and accolades, there are simply too many to mention,” he wrote, before praising her interviewing and adding that she “just keeps raising the bar.”
Then he explained why he felt safe saying it. She would never see the post, he reckoned, because she would never dare put anything on LinkedIn herself. “She aint no suit.”
