John, a mechanical engineer by degree, comes from a business background where putting the customer first was always a priority. Co-founding Blackberry Hearing with Dave Gleeson, they designed the company by drawing on their customer focused business experience. Formerly a manager of Samsung Semiconductor Ireland, John later built a large sales business servicing and selling into multinational computer companies such as Dell. He is a co-founder of Irrus Investments, one of Ireland’s largest business angel syndicates, which funds high tech startup companies.
John enjoys keeping up with science, technology and business, enjoys downtime playing golf, coaching youth rugby and spending time with family.

Luke, a physicist by doctoral degree, comes from both an academic and management consulting background. He has a passion for using the power of innovative technology and data to both improve people’s lives and drive real business change.

Luke has worked across a number of business sectors, including financial services, insurance and pharmaceuticals, and he has successfully helped his clients to improve their business processes and unlock the value in their data. Luke enjoys keeping up with the latest physics discoveries (which is most unfortunate for his colleagues within earshot), socializing with family and friends, and the odd bit of poker on a Monday night

Bernadine Kilbride from Co. Laois joined Blackberry Hearing in 2016 after studying Audiology in Athlone. Bernadine enjoys music, travel & dancing.

Claire began her education with a B. Ag. Sc. and M. Ag. Sc. from UCD, her career led her into the field of hearing loss where she worked as a Resource Officer for Deaf and hard of hearing people for 14 years. Her deep passion for this work prompted her back to study Audiology, where she graduated from QMU, Edinburgh in 2019 as an Hearing Aid Audiologist. In addition to her work experience and study of Audiology, Claire also lives with hearing loss herself which gives her great personal insight and empathy with her patients and the communication difficulties they face daily. It gives me great personal satisfaction to work with people who have hearing loss and help them regain their confidence in communicating as I have been able to do.
Hearing Assessments available through Sign Language (ISL), if anyone requires

Una Maguire from Dublin joined Blackberry Hearing in 2019 after studying an MSc in Audiology in University College Cork. Una is passionate about providing quality and affordable hearing care while maintaining good clinical standards. In her spare time, Una enjoys traveling and playing the fiddle.
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I joined Blackberry Hearing in 2017 and I love working in a business with such strong customer focus, an area I am passionate about. My background experience includes being part of the team that launched La Roche Posay (a l’Oreal Group company) in Ireland.
Looking after the employee relocation needs of large multi-nationals in Ireland while working with Irish Relocation Services. I have many years’ experience of sales, account and office management in a range of roles. I enjoy interacting with people and am proud of the fantastic team we have built in Blackberry Hearing, both our highly qualified mobile team and our engine room team. At Blackberry Hearing, we like to treat our customers as if they were members of our own family. The team work closely together to deliver the best results for our customers in terms of service, quality and value. In my spare time I enjoy going to the gym, reading and spending quality time with family and catching up with friends.