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HIRED & PROMOTED: Polycom names Billie Hartless as Chief Human Resources Officer

Polycom has announced Billie Hartless as chief human resources officer. Hartless will succeed the company’s former HR leader Laura Owen, who is leaving Polycom to pursue a new opportunity. Hartless is a global HR executive with nearly 25 years of experience working in all aspects of HR at Nokia. Most recently, she served as the Vice President of HR for HERE, an innovative leader in location based cloud technology.

As the newest member of the executive team, Hartless joins McDowell, who joined Polycom in September 2016, and CFO Laura Durr, who has been with Polycom since 2004 and served as CFO since 2014, to add to the strong line-up of women executives at the Bay Area-based company. With 27 percent of its executives being women, Polycom surpasses both the national and technology industry average of just 19 percent, according to the 2016 Women in the Workplace report from Leanin.org.