About Us

Margaret Dineen- CEO and Founder

Margaret has over 25 years of experience in commercial roles within the Food industry across retail , Foodservice and wholesale . Margaret’s career begun in retail as Grocery floor manager for Dunnes Stores , moving to a supply chain role with the implementation of Superquinn’s centre distribution centre to obtaining a commercial director role of an Irish Food SME in 2018. Margaret is highly experienced in market feasibility , category and business development across a vast array of retailers including Aldi , Lidl, Musgrave , Tesco , Sainsbury’s and Asda .

Educated in UCC with a BSc Food Business and a HDip in Business and Financial information systems, Margaret qualified as a chartered management accountant with Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and is a member of the institute. She is also a trained executive coach and mediator . Margaret now runs a management consultancy business which has two service divisions – Food Supply Chain ,Sustainability  and Commercial Finance management plus a Trade platform for small to medium size Food and Drink Producers .

 For more on the Trade platform visit https://www.irishfoodtradeconnectforum.ie/