What the People Think
Dagan Hyde
1. What do you do at Link 51?
I am the Link 51 Group Product Manager; I have three main areas of responsibility
Product development: - primarily for Shelving, Pallet Racking and Mobiles (high density storage)
Training: - Products (of course) and selling
Special Projects: - This covers a multitude of tasks, including IT, sales support, larger projects and new sales channel opportunities
2. What’s the best thing about your job?
Every day is different, being able to be part of making things happen, whether it is training new people or launching new products.
The best single thing for me is what I call the “Ah yes” moment, when something becomes clear. When, either someone I am training, or myself understand something new. I think that life is about learning new things.
3. What’s your claim to fame?

I can’t see it myself.
My personal claims include the facts that I donate blood (over 30 to date), drive a daft eco-car, help out at the local hospital chapel and I have survived the adoption process for not just one child but two!
From a business point I joined the company in 1981 as an engineering apprentice and have had twelve different positions in the Group since then. My jobs have included manufacturing, draughting, design, sales, marketing, training, PR, IT, installation in fact just about everything except HR and finance.
4. If you had to be stranded on a desert island – what would be the one thing that you would take with you and why?
5. What’s your dream holiday destination?
I have been very fortunate to have travelled to many places in the world for both business and pleasure. The destinations have included Hawaii, Alaska, East and West coast USA, Iceland, Sweden down through most of Europe, Tunisia, Kenya, India, China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bali and I had three days in Australia but that was on business, so it doesn’t really count. One thing I have discovered is that the more I travel the more I realise how big the world is and how much is still left to see.
I would love to visit South America and see the Amazon, further south into Chile and then on into the Antarctic. Russia is a huge and fascinating country, New Zealand and the list goes on. I guess I’m not a big fan of lying on a beach.
6. Who would be your ideal dinner guests?
7. What makes you laugh?
It tends to depend on my mood; generally it is the unexpected that makes me laugh.
I heard a story the other day about what makes people laugh: -
A man was walking past a garden with a very high fence around it. There was a lot of laughter and shouting coming from the people behind the fence. As he got closer he could hear that the people were shouting “thirteen, thirteen, thirteen” and laughing.
He noticed that there was a knot hole in the fence and curiosity got the better of him, he bent down and looked through the hole. Suddenly a finger shot out and poked him in the eye.
As he staggered back he heard more laughter and the people all shouting “fourteen, fourteen, fourteen”
8. What’s your favourite thing to do in your spare time?
9. If you were Prime Minister, what would you do?
10. What would you do if you won the lottery?



