Paudie Gillen says farewell after 40 years

After 40 years in the business, Paudie Gillen has retired as Managing Director of ISOPARTNER to spend more time with his wife, Lillian, his children and grandchildren, and to do some travelling. No doubt there will be plenty of golf mixed in there as well. He has taken on a part time role with the IPCOM Group (owners of ISOPARTNER) to work on European mergers and acquisitions.

Paudie’s departure marks a major milestone in the history of the company but he leaves behind him a very successful, structured and experienced management team now led by his son, Shaun Gillen, who has taken over as Manging

ISOPARTNER specialises in the distribution, conversion and production of innovative solutions for technical insulation.

Whether it involves heat, cold, sound or fire protection, it offers in-depth expertise and a wide range of products and systems.

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Supporting that is a team of specially-trained and experienced operatives who will devise and deliver the best solution for each project. We will feature more about the changes to the top team in ISOPARTNER in the next edition of Building Services Engineering.

Successful rebrand

Paudie joined the company in 1990, working closely with the Carty brothers, Paul, Brian and John, along with Johnny Vaughan, to develop the business. Various changes took place throughout takeovers and business name changes, resulting in Johnny and Paudie leading the business from 2006.

The business was sold to IPCOM in 2016 and Paudie proceeded to become Managing Director in 2018, following Johnny’s retirement. He also led the business through a successful rebrand in November 2022 when the company was renamed ISOPARTNER.

Business transformed

“I have seen sume incredible changes in the sector down through the years,” says Paudie. “New technical innovations and regulation compliance, especially in relation to fire, energy saving and healthy indoor environments, have utterly transformed the business. It is now very much a high-tech sector, far removed from the days when I first became involved.

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The business is now very much a high-tech sector, and far removed from the days when I first became involved.

“At ISOPARTNER we not only participated in this change but we have also helped drive it forward. We have done this by way of our in-house CPD presentations, technical evenings and customer training programmes. In this respect, we also worked very closely with our many market-leading supply partners, some of whom have been dealing with us since I first joined the company.

Business as usual

“Over the years the company has developed strong and trusting relationships with both our supply partners and customers and, with the strong team now led by Shaun in place, it is business as usual going forward.”