FEATURE
Laura Henry, Finance Manager at Cirdan and Gillian Sadlier, Senior Business Manager at Bank of Ireland UK.
Cirdan’s 2020 vision
Bank of Ireland UK’s Gillian Sadlier, talks to Laura Henry from medical technology company, Cirdan about its growth plans.
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caling-up is an exciting, albeit stressful, time in any business. It needs to be carefully planned, is definitely hard work and often daunting, especially at the outset. Cirdan, a really exciting business is doing just that and Laura Henry, its Finance Manager, recently took time to share its scaling for growth story with Gillian Sadlier, Senior Business Manager at Bank of Ireland UK.
Gillian Sadlier (GS): Tell me a bit about Cirdan – what do you do and a little bit of the business story so far? Laura Henry (LH): Cirdan is a medical technology company specialising in informatics software and imaging solutions which help enhance and speed up the diagnosis of patients. Our products are used all over the world and primarily by those working in pathology. We have two core products ‘ULTRA’,
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which is a Laboratory Information System (LIS) supporting the operations of clinical laboratories and ‘CoreLite’, an x-ray system helping expedite breast cancer diagnosis. We are approaching our 10th anniversary this year. In that decade the business has grown from an embryonic start-up to a team of over 75 people across multiple geographic locations. We have plenty to celebrate in this landmark, from winning a new multimillion-
