[2][3] From 2019-2021, she was CEO of Mitel,[4][5] a global business communications provider.

[7] While at Polycom, she led a strategic pivot to open ecosystems[8][9][10][11][12] and bought Obihai to strengthen the company’s phone and cloud products.

[18] Before Nokia, she worked at Compaq/Hewlett Packard from 1986 to 2003,[19] where she was at one point in charge of its server division.

[20] In 2012 she was described as one of ten "disruptive individuals" reshaping the mobile phone industry.

[23] McDowell is married to Kevin Longgino, the CEO of the National Kidney Foundation.