The team behind Wicklow technology firm Hubbcat spent many years working together in the telecoms sector in the Caribbean before founding the company.
Chief financial officer, Simon Smith, met friends and co-founders Alan Bates and Damian Blackburn while he was on a consulting assignment in the Bahamas.
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