Irish tech entrepreneur Eoghan McCabe is stepping back from his CEO role at software firm Intercom to become chairman of the €1bn company he co-founded and has led for almost a decade. Mr McCabe had hit the headlines and subsequently apologised for “poor judgment” relating to behaviour with female staff in the early years of his company. However, it attracted controversy last year when the US online tech news company ‘The Information’ published a lengthy article highlighting complaints against Mr McCabe from a number of female Intercom staff. “In the early years of the company I demonstrated some poor judgment,” Mr McCabe said in a statement. In an memo to staff posted on Intercom’s website, Mr McCabe said that in the new chairman role he will lead the board and “provide strategic leadership on our biggest ideas and milestones”.

Source: Irish Independent June 18, 2020 19:18 UTC