Anne Gillespie
HR Director
Anne has spent most of her career with major technology corporations. Compaq was the fastest growing company in American business history when they opened their European Operations and she joined as one of the first employees. At Compaq, Anne initially managed internal and external communications and customer programs prior to making a career move into HR. She was involved in mergers and acquisitions (including Tandem Computers and Digital Equipment Corporation) and then joined HP in their Corporate Headquarters in California during the HP/Compaq merger.
She has extensive experience of living and working in Eastern Europe and spent time in the Czech Republic and Romania where she drove the human resources aspects of a major start-up for HP in Bucharest.
Prior to joining Skype, Anne worked for HP in US Corporate Headquarters supporting the Global Marketing organization and then moved to Switzerland to support Global Operations and IT as HR Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In her most recent role, Anne led HR for all of HP’s Global Functions in EMEA.
Anne holds an MSc in Human Resource Management from Sheffield University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD).
