Alan Leamy considers himself something of a late bloomer. Now in his mid-fifties, he has turned Perigord, his family business of 100 people, into a 500 person organisation with €20 million in revenue. As chief executive he has developed, evolved and grown the company his father founded in 1974, into a specialist provider of packaging artwork services and software solutions for the life sciences industry. Perigord recently sold a 70 per cent stake to the Indian multinational, Tech Mahindra, for €21 million. With the backing of his new parent company, Leamy is now setting out to transform the world of…

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