The Corkman

Caroline Dowling guest speaker at the Duhallow Business Awards MILLSTREET WOMAN IS THE BUSINESS GROUP PRESIDENT OF MAJOR MULTINATIO­NAL TELECOMS AND IT COMPANY FLEX

- MARIA HERLIHY

THIS year, at the fourth IRD Duhallow Business Awards, in conjunctio­n with The Corkman, the guest speaker on the night will be Millstreet woman Caroline Dowling.

She is the business business group president at Flex, a $26B, industry - a leading, Fortune Global 500 company with more than 200,000 employees and operations in 30 countries.

In this role, she leads the Communicat­ions and Enterprise Compute Business Group (CEC) a $9B group, comprised of an internatio­nal team focused on product design, manufactur­ing and services providing end-to-end solutions worldwide for the telecom, networking, server, storage, cloud, data analytics and converged infrastruc­ture markets.

Additional­ly, she is responsibl­e for managing our Global Service & Solutions (GSS) a $1B business unit, including forward and reverse logistics, spare parts management and end to end global distributi­on.

Prior to this role Ms Dowling held several senior executive roles at Flex over the past 16 years including president of NOVO and technical services and SVP of Global business developmen­t.

Ms. Dowling joined Flex through the acquisitio­n of The Dii Group, where she held various management roles of increasing responsibi­lity, including vice president of Europe, director of European business and original equipment manufactur­er (OEM) manager.

She is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.

Caroline Dowling, President, Communicat­ions & Enterprise Compute (CEC); formerly known as Integrated Network Solutions (INS) at Flex.

 ??  ?? Millstreet native, Caroline Dowling who is the Business Group President at Flex, a $26 billion industry leading company will be the guest speaker at the IRD Duhallow business awards which are held in conjunctio­n with The Corkman.
Millstreet native, Caroline Dowling who is the Business Group President at Flex, a $26 billion industry leading company will be the guest speaker at the IRD Duhallow business awards which are held in conjunctio­n with The Corkman.

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