Team
Built close to the work
The people behind Kabaido understand this industry from the inside, with decades spent in precision manufacturing, coatings and automotive supply behind the product.
The people behind Kabaido
Rourke McCarron
Founder and Director
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Founder and director of Kabaido, building and running the platform from Bournemouth. Reads the same drawings, catalogues and price lists the product has to understand, and stays close to every quote it returns. Started Kabaido to put the judgement of a senior sales engineer into software that cites its sources and shows its working, so the people who sell precision manufacturing can answer faster without guessing.
Boris Von Bieberstein
Industry Partner
Head of Group Business Development at Juffali in Saudi Arabia, after senior commercial roles as Oerlikon COO and SVP and at Siemens Energy. Brings commercial pattern recognition and access across the DACH region and the Gulf.
Background
Wolfgang Kalss
Industry Partner
Independent coating consultant after 27 years at Oerlikon, where he was Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Innovation. Bridges coating R&D with commercial strategy and anchors introductions across the coating and solid carbide segment.
Background
Pierre Voineau
Industry Partner
Deputy Country Manager at BYD for Belgium and Luxembourg, after running Stellantis BeLux as Managing Director and a decade at Renault Group. Brings the automotive OEM and electric vehicle view of how this market buys.
Background
The three above guide Kabaido in a personal capacity. Their employers are named for background only and are not affiliated with the company.
Roles
Seats open for the right people
Founding engineer and application engineer seats are open for the right people. No quota to fill and no hiring season, so a strong note lands whenever you send it.
Why founder-led
Founder-led, and close to the work
Kabaido is founder-led on purpose. The person building it stays close to the work, the request that arrives as a drawing, the catalogue it has to match and the price that has to come out right. Nothing sits between the decision and the customer who lives with it.
That shows in how the product behaves. It cites its sources, shows the price line by line and abstains when it does not know, rather than guessing. A sales engineer can always check the working, because the working is on show.
The next read for a buyer is the mission. For the detail, read how the AI works.
See it on your own work
Send a real RFQ against your catalogue and read the quote it returns.