‘With every career step, I try to add new skills’

Senior vice-president at Workday, Chris Byrne, traces her career to date and explores the lessons she has learned along the way

Chris Byrne, senior vice-president, Workday Picture: Fergal Phillips

As senior vice-president at Workday, Chris Byrne oversees 600 employees at the company’s EMEA headquarters in Dublin. Founded in 2005, Workday develops cloud applications for HR, finance and data analytics. A native of Kentucky in the US, Byrne started her career at the Johnson Space Centre with IBM. She subsequently worked with PeopleSoft, before joining Workday in 2006 as one of its earliest employees.

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