Maths was never TJ Hegary’s favourite subject. It was the subject he had to work at hardest after as he prepared to do his Leaving Cert in 2013. In the end he got an A and with 600 points in the bag and he went to UCD to study agricultural science, convinced his future was in farming and food. After getting a first in his degree he was snapped up by the graduate programme at Kerry Foods before being promoted to national account executive. “I thought I’d be selling cheese to the Chinese,” Hegarty laughs. Instead he ended in sales…

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