P R O F I L E S
Geoff Baird
From his early teenager years cycling round his local town selling Amway household products Geoff Baird knew instinctively that sales and marketing were the path for him and the ultimate goal of owning and running a business was very soon a reality.
After a successful period as a partner in a group of family owned businesses Geoff left in 1999 to set up his current business, Craigmore.
Craigmore is the sole distributor in Ireland for a number of leading German industrial equipment manufacturers; the areas covered include industrial cleaning machinery, engineering and welding machinery.
Craigmore has grown to be the largest Karcher dealer in Ireland and the third largest in the UK, Craigmore is also the only dealer in Ireland to be awarded Premier Servicing Dealer status. This award is based on sales, service and customer satisfaction.
Twenty years of management and team building have given Geoff the skills and knowledge to establish a new business and be confident in its ability to become a strong and leading brand in the market for medical devices.
Diarmuid McAlinden
Diarmuid started his studies with City and Guilds engineering and continued to study mechanical engineering before working as an apprentice tool room fitter and machinist, he loved this hands on part of the manufacturing process especially in machine design and problem solving and sought out positions to allow him to learn quickly and extensively. Becoming a head machinist in his first company whilst still an apprentice he went onto work in several different industries in the coming years where his main role was advancing existing equipment and improving output.
Diarmuid has spent most of his working life at the cutting edge of new design, from one of his earliest jobs in Delorean Motor Company to this latest venture in the production of high class medical devices.
Much of Diarmuids career has been spent in the guidewire industry and more specifically in the design and installation of production to manufacture medical grade guidewires.
For the past ten years Diarmuid has ran his own business offering advice and custom-built machinery to customers around the world who are involved in the guidewire industry. He has developed new advanced techniques for welding, J forming and spring coiling as well as automation of these processes.
With more than twenty years of experience in building and running guidewire production lines Diarmuid is one the most highly skilled persons in this field today.