Ep 45 | Ellen Quirke
Mastering CS: Candid Leader Insights · 2026-02-02 · 23 min
Episode notes
In this episode of Mastering CS Candid Leader Insights, Irina Cismas sits down with Ellen Quirke , Head of Customer Success at IRIS Audio, the AI audio company helping teams remove background noise and capture clearer conversations at scale.Ellen shares how her years as a high-performance athlete shaped the way she leads, prioritizes, and builds systems, then breaks down what it looks like to create a CS function from zero inside a fast-moving company. She explains how IRIS Audio serves both high-volume environments like BPOs and call centres and expands into mission-critical markets like emergency services, aviation, and defence, and why that expansion changes how CS must operate. ---- With Custify, you can: ️ automate daily tasks through Playbooks ️ build individual customer #HealthScores ️ create customer segments ️ improve your customer communication strategy ️ streamline your onboarding process ️ track customers’ journeys every step of the way ️ get a 360 view of their progress Want to do great things with your customer success initiative?