‘Smart operator’: how BT’s first female CEO helped turn company around

Since taking the helm as BT's first female chief executive, Allison Kirkby has overseen an eighty percent climb in the company's share price — a turnaround that earned her five point six million pounds in pay and bonuses last year, the largest compensation package for a BT boss in more than a decade. According to The Guardian, however, questions persist about how much of the company's revival she can personally claim credit for.

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