And there I discovered that the head of Microsoft Ireland was a woman. I interviewed an endless stream of men, men, men back in the day. In her wake, we knew that in Ireland, a woman’s place definitely could be at the very top of a tech company. And in tech’s female vacuum, Riordan was inarguably It – a talented, capable, rigorous, professional woman holding her own in tech’s extremely male world. I consider those women Riordan’s legacy, each demonstrating ever-so-firmly that, like Ann Riordan, women are tech leaders.

Source: The Irish Times April 01, 2021 04:30 UTC