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

Michael Burke Pic: Michael Dillon

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 ...