Business is booming for Astatine boss Tom Marren. Over a two-year span, the Dublin native expects his company’s revenues to increase tenfold, buoyed by a big new partnership with Aviva.
He has come prepared for our interview with a PowerPoint presentation, and after spending the first 20 minutes trying to figure out where we know each other from, I ask him where the name for his company comes from.
“Astatine. It is the rarest, naturally occurring element in the world,” Marren says, his engineering background shining through. “When we started the business, the marketing people hated it.”
Sometimes, people don’t know how to pronounce the name of the business, he laughs.
“Remember when Google first came out? You probably don’t,” he laughs. “Well, when Google came out we all asked what a Google was! But now, it is a brand. It’s the same with Astatine.”
Wishful thinking, perhaps, but time will tell.
Astatine is an “energy infrastructure solutions” company, they don’t just specialise in a single portion of the energy cycle.
“Rather than a client going out and getting a solar guy, getting a battery guy, getting a heat pump guy, getting a truck guy, you name it,” says Marren; that Astatine “just do everything”.
He says it gives them a significant advantage in price com
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