HullNext Team

HullNextThe positive and connecting force of the community

Founded in 2022

Our mission

Curated, clear, community-first

Showcase the area as a great place to live and visit — clear, curated information, no clutter, no noise, just what matters.

Hyper local

Built for everyday

A website and mobile app connecting residents and visitors to what matters in the area.

Community powered

Shaped by neighbors who care

Shaped by ideas from locals and friends who love the area and care about its flourishing.

Leadership

Founders

Meet the founders who built HullNext to celebrate the town they call home.

Description

Irena & Martin Davy

Our journey brought us to Hull from Boston after years of living across the United States and abroad. Irena is a native of Georgia (the country). Martin is from the UK. We each have spent more than 30 years building a life in the U.S. When we discovered Hull, its character, coastline, and close-knit community felt unmistakably special. We put down roots. With backgrounds in technology and a love for community-rooted storytelling, we created HullNext to give back to the town that welcomed us. We spotlight the unique people and treasures that make Hull shine.

Community

Partners

Partners, artists, historians, and storytellers.

HullNext is a grassroots platform built by neighbors who love Hull and vicinity and want to share their appreciation for the area. Our partners are driven by giving back to the community—highlighting the people, places, and small businesses that make the area special.

Captain Kailie J. Benson, USCG (Ret.)

Captain Kailie J. Benson, USCG (Ret.)

Captain Kailie J. Benson, USCG (Ret.), originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is known throughout Hull and the South Shore for her caring, thoughtful leadership and the friendships she’s built here. As the former Commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Boston, she understands Hull’s coastline deeply. Kailie recommended that HullNext feature the Boston Harbor Islands, which align closely with Hull’s identity and daily life on the water, and encouraged adding local webcams for real‑time visibility into shoreline conditions. Her insight strengthens HullNext’s mission to deliver practical, trusted, community‑driven information for everyone who loves our coastline.

Jennifer Whelan

Jennifer Whelan

Jennifer Whelan is a Hull native and Village resident—a natural‑light portrait photographer capturing families, seniors, headshots, small events, and local scenes. She helped lead the Front Steps Project, raising over $14,000 for Wellspring, and her work has appeared in regional publications. Jennifer is generously contributing her amazing work to HullNext across the platform. She’s partnering with HullNext to showcase Hull’s people, places, and everyday beauty.

Explore her gallery in Through the Artist's Eye and watch her project in Through the Filmmaker's Eye.

Steven M. Greenberg

Steven M. Greenberg

Steven M. Greenberg brings decades of community leadership and now pours that energy into Hull. He lives at the family cottage on Nantasket Beach and is passionate about Hull’s history, its people, and preserving the town’s unique character. Explore his Signboards Stroll to see his contribution to HullNext.

His past includes public service and leadership roles, including Peace Corps work in Armenia and executive director positions at the Vilna Shul and Temple Beth Zion in Brookline. He was born and raised in Natick, MA and has spent fifty years serving communities across Greater Boston.

Marianne F. Buckley Curran

Marianne F. Buckley Curran

Marianne F. Buckley Curran is a Hull‑based artist who shares her work with HullNext to celebrate the town's coastal light, history, and everyday magic. Explore her featured gallery in Through the Artist's Eye and her book Beach Day. Her HullNext partnership brings her watercolor, oil, and acrylic work to the platform, highlighting the people, places, and scenes that make Hull special.

Irwin Nesoff

Irwin Nesoff

Irwin Nesoff is an active member of the Hull community, drawing on years of experience in local government and nonprofit leadership. He regularly shares his monthly newsletter, Keeping You Informed, on HullNext to help residents stay updated on town issues and better understand how local government works.

Bart Blumberg

Bart Blumberg

Bart Blumberg brings his creative, fine‑art approach to photography to HullNext, partnering with us to showcase the beauty of Hull through his images. His work blends realism and creative visualization to capture the feeling of a moment, offering residents a chance to see Hull through an artist's eye. Explore his gallery in Through the Artist's Eye.

Sean Baggett

Sean Baggett

Sean Baggett lives in the beautiful seaside community of Hull Village, Massachusetts. He has a variety of project interests. Most of them revolve around taking ordinary moments and making them special and taking special moments and making them timeless. He enjoys reminding and being reminded of how special and beautiful life can be. His photographic strengths are candid shots using natural light.

Explore his gallery in Through the Artist’s Eye, and see The Head of the Weir River Race — a community memory he shared with HullNext from the several years he has documented the race.

Tara Ashe

Tara Ashe

Back when HullNext was just an idea, Tara Ashe was one of the early friends who helped kick around the concept in conversation — a connection to those first days rather than an ongoing role. A Rhode Island native who grew up sailing, she now lives in Hull and, with her husband Michael, runs Seaside Transport, serving the transportation needs of locals and visitors.

For Businesses & Organizations

Products & Services

Business data and hands-on expertise, built by people who've done it before.

Our Offerings

Business Directory

For chambers of commerce, town offices, tourism groups, and local media sitting on a messy business list. We gather the records, clean and enrich them, and hand back a directory that is ready to publish — for marketing, outreach, or powering your own website.

What We Do

Gather

Source business records from trusted inputs.

Clean & Enrich

Standardize, verify, and enrich every listing.

Deliver

Deliver a directory that is ready to publish and use.

Build

Get a yourbusiness.hullnext.com site with polished business‑card profiles like the ones we build for HullNext.

Product Sample

See It In Action

How listings look.

Business Directory sample in card view
Card ViewBrowse and filter listings by category.
Business Directory sample in list view
List ViewManage records with contact and social fields.

The same data powers polished listings across HullNext.

HullNext dine listing cards
Dine: an example of how directory data can be turned into polished product experiences.
HullNext shopping listing cards
Shopping: another example of consistent listing cards across categories.

Send us your current list and we'll show you what a cleaned-up directory looks like.

Request a sample

Wisdom as a Service

Decades of hands-on technology and business experience, offered directly to organizations and causes that could use a hand.

What We Do

Advise

Strategic and technical guidance drawn from decades building products and businesses.

Mentor

Direct, ongoing support for teams and founders navigating hard problems.

Connect

Introductions to the right people, resources, and partners when you need them.

Build

Got a game-changing idea? We'll help turn it into a real tech product.

The People

Irena Davy

Irena Davy

HullNext Co-Founder

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I co-founded HullNext with Martin to give the town we love a platform of its own. I have spent more than three decades in technology, product, and business leadership, and I bring passion and energy to everything I do — whether that is technical strategy, product guidance, or simply being an experienced sounding board for the organizations and mission-driven causes I believe in.

Companies Irena Davy has worked at include:BNYState StreetFidelityTextron FinancialBrown University
Martin Davy

Martin Davy

HullNext Co-Founder

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I co-founded HullNext with Irena, and I build much of what runs behind it. Over more than three decades I have led engineering and product work across research, education, financial services, and enterprise software, and I enjoy putting that experience to work for local organizations and causes that need a technical partner.

Companies Martin Davy has worked at include:Broad Institute of Harvard & MITPublicisHMHPega SystemsFidelityLinedataUniversity of Kent

Got a project or a cause? We'd love to help.

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Marketing

Printable assets for community sharing and promotion.

Share HullNext with your audience using our printable flyer, sticker, and business card assets.