Career
She emigrated from the United Kingdom to New Zealand in 1994 with a master’s in electronic engineering and began her telecoms career with Bellsouth as an RF engineer By 2001 she was head of the technology team at Vodafone New Zealand (after the United Kingdom carrier bought up Bellsouth in 1998). She moved to the United Kingdom Chief Technology Officer position in 2007.
She is one of the few women to have competed twice in the Volvo Ocean Race.
