Chris Byrne

Chris Byrne is senior vice president of technology and customer operations. Previously, she served as senior vice president of global operations where she was responsible for managing global product and technology programs and leading our European development centre.

Since joining Workday in 2006 as one of the first 50 Workday employees, Chris has led several business functions at Workday including quality assurance, data centre operations, and the global customer support organization. Chris has been based in Europe for half of her Workday tenure, and as a senior leader based in Ireland, has helped grow our Dublin development centre.  

Prior to Workday, Chris was vice president at PeopleSoft responsible for the products and technology program management office, after a development manager role in the technology group.

Chris holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.