IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Linda Kiely (pictured), co-founder of Voxpro, is to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards ceremony, taking place on Monday, November 25, 2019 at the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road, Dublin 4.
Selected by the editors and directors of IMAGE Media, this special award is presented to women who have truly trailblazed in their careers, with former recipients including Breege O’Donoghue, former group director of Primark; Mary Finan, a founding partner of Wilson Hartnell PR; Freda Hayes, founder of Meadows & Byrne; journalist and former editor of the Sunday Independent, Anne Harris; and retail entrepreneur Geraldine Swarbrigg.
Linda Kiely, a native of Cork, is the co-founder of Voxpro along with her husband Dan. Voxpro is a premium provider of customer experience, technical support and sales operations to some of the most iconic tech brands that are changing the world. Linda is a strategic, multi-award-winning businesswoman with over 20 years’ experience. Within Voxpro, Linda has led the charge, steering it from six people in Cork City to 6,500-plus team members around the world. In August 2017, Canadian firm TELUS International acquired a majority stake in Voxpro, which resulted in Voxpro becoming part of a truly global business spanning almost 30 locations and a team of 40,000 people. Linda has been crucial in fostering the company’s chameleon-like culture that has been crucial in the forging of long-lasting partnerships with some of the world’s most recognisable companies. Her astute commercial sense recognises potential, in both people and opportunities and leverages her innate customer experience acumen across all output. In recent years, Linda has become an investor in Irish tech start-ups and has plans to launch a new business in 2020.
