I’m as hungry now as I was 35 years ago when I started the business, all I can see is opportunity
It has taken Michael Burke more than three decades to build up generic medicine maker Chanelle into a multimilion-euro business, but at 70 he has no plans to call it a day just yet
CV: Michael Burke
Age:70
Lives: Dublin, but spends most of his time travelling
Family: married to Joanne, has five adult children from his first marriage
Favourite book: Anything by John Grisham
Favourite film: The Quiet Man
Hobbies: horseracing
I catch Michael Burke in the Intercontinental Hotel in Dublin while he is between meetings and ahead of a flight to Dubai. The founder of Chanelle, Ireland’s largest manufacturer of generic medicines for human and ...