GRANDPAD (Wexford)

Dr Edwina Dunne, Business Director, GrandPad Europe

IDA Ireland was instrumental in showing GrandPad a number of locations. We picked Gorey because it’s just an hour from Dublin Airport, it has access to very skilled people who would work from home, and The Hatch Lab. We loved the shared office space at The Hatch Lab: it’s an impressive new building that offers excellent accommodation possibilities for a new emerging company. It also offers the opportunity to network with others. I’ve sourced promotional materials and storage space through connections I’ve made here.

Remote working is the method for the GrandPad Service people and Gorey offers the mix of technical and soft skills we need. We’ve been able to access five highly-skilled, knowledgeable people on the services side – they are the gold dust behind the hardware and software. I would not have been able to recruit those people if it meant travelling for an hour to an office. We also have a very highlyskilled technical person who lives in Wexford. He had many job opportunities in Dublin but didn’t want to spend his life travelling, so this worked out well for us.