About Us

Joe is Managing Director of ADEC Arise, one of Ireland’s leading business process outsourcing companies.   BAsed in Limerick, ADEC Arise provides technical support, customer care and back office / business process outsourcing.

Kathy leads the management and development of Merlyn’s Customer Experience focused contact centre and is also responsible for the field service engineers programme in Merlyn. In her current role, she is focused on leading the delivery of a highly sophisticated customer experience across all channels.

Niall is part of the Global Customer Services Leadership Team within Global Customer Operations. Niall manages the servicing strategy and operations for a number of EMEA’s large markets in addition to leading the outsourced operations for all Global English markets. He brings over 20 years senior leadership experience in customer facing sales roles within customer operations, sales and marketing.

Stephen has over 30 years experience in customer experience and in telecoms. Workair work with clients to improve their customer experience and their contact centre productivity through cloud communication technology. Stephen has performed various roles including Chief Executive Officer for Best Buy Asia, Chief Executive Officer for Carphone Warehouse, Head of Consumer Sales in Vodafone (Eircell).

Lisa is Head of Direct Service where she is responsible for AIB’s Direct Service customer support for both Business and Personal customers across multiple channels and leads a large team within AIB’s Contact Centre. Lisa is an experienced and customer focussed senior banker with a diverse career within AIB with responsibility across Branch, Business Centre and Direct Banking. Lisa has been instrumental in developing capabilities and skills to deliver exceptional customer experience across Voice, Chat and Social Media channels. Lisa is passionate about developing high performing frontline teams and leading business & digital transformation. Lisa holds a Bachelor Financial Services (UCD )and QFA (Institute of Bankers)

Dorothy has over 25 years experience within the Irish and UK customer service and contact centre industry. Dorothy worked with Telecom Eireann (now eir) for 8 years in a variety of corporate affairs and marketing roles, finally as Head of the Telemarketing Services Unit. She spent over 8 years as Vice President of Sales and Marketing with the ICT Group, a leading global business process service provider. She also worked as Director of Sales with Conduit an Irish based BPO provider.

Seamus has worked in the customer service industry for more than 20 years. He joined VHI Healthcare in January 1999 and has worked in a number of roles within the contact centre as advisor, Team Leader, Operations Leader, Training/Development coordinator and Contact Centre Manager.

Paul currently manages supplier engagement and outsourcing efforts within the Vendor Management Office at Google. Following the completion of his Honours Degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Technology Tallaght in 2006, Paul has spent the last 16+ years working in the customer experience space for organisations such as Google, LinkedIn and Sage.

Ashling has worked in the customer service industry for more than 18 years spanning across Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment & e-commerce. In her current role, Ashling leads a well-established team of Senior managers supporting Three’s customer experience across voice, chat, social media, Telesales, Digital channels and Customer Experience teams.