“Our R&D team is managed out of Carlow,” she says, by way of example.
Covid has changed the course of many people’s lives over the past year, and Hamilton is pragmatic about its effect on her – and on the firm.
“At a personal level, I would sometimes think to myself: ‘Wouldn’t it be great now to be on San Clemente Pier, walking along the beach...’ So yes, there are times when I certainly think it would be great to have that single-minded purpose.”
But at the same time, she says that in many areas of business and life there has been a big “reset” following Covid.