Our Champions

Moving from a Fulbright to BCG to The Washington Post early on, Jenny became CEO of a tech startup and then jumped into venture capital. In 2015, she founded Rethink Impact, now the largest U.S.-based impact fund investing in female leaders using technology to solve the world’s greatest problems. Jenny sits on the boards of Ellevest, Candidly, Wellthy, Winnie, Seven Starling, and EveryDay Labs.

The Texas-bred daughter of concentration camp survivors, Linda got her grit early. After earning a BA and law degree from the University of Texas, she moved on to a career as a top litigator, CEO advisor, and legal-world pioneer. Linda was the first woman on the Executive Committee at Fulbright & Jaworski, and then U.S. Managing Partner of Norton Rose Fulbright. She is lead independent director at Globe Life and on the board of KPMG U.S.

Peggy’s career path took her from eBay to PayPal to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where she was Chief Financial Officer and Head of Operations. She rejoined PayPal in 2019 and headed global sales and merchant services for four years. In 2025, she returned to eBay as CFO. Peggy serves on the boards of Meta Platforms, Inc. and Macerich.

Mary began her career at GM in 1980 and rose to CEO in 2014. Adding the Chair position in 2016, she set a goal for GM to be “the most inclusive company in the world.” Mary serves on the board of Walt Disney.

Corie became the youngest female CEO in the Fortune 500 when she moved up from CFO in 2019. She started her career as an auditor at Deloitte & Touche and joined Best Buy in 1999. She is a director of Domino’s Pizza.

Elisa began her career as a Teach For America corps member, teaching bilingual first and second grade in South Phoenix. She returned to her hometown in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to lead TFA’s work there, quickly advancing to Chief Operating Officer and then CEO in 2013. As CEO, she led a national network of over 70,000 corps members and alumni across 300+ communities, guiding TFA’s strategy and mission. After 24 years of service, she retired in 2025. She continues to champion educational opportunity through board service with GoGuardian, the Holdsworth Center, and Leaders for Educational Equity.

Roz grew up in Detroit, graduated from Spelman College, and began her career as a chemist. After spending 22 years at Kimberly-Clark, where she rose to President of a global business unit, she moved to Walmart and ascended to CEO of Sam’s Club. Roz later served as COO and Group President at Starbucks and then CEO of Walgreens for two years. She's now Interim President of Spelman and on the board of United Airlines.

Diane grew up in Northern California, graduated from UC Davis, and started as an engineer at Intel. She spent 32 years there, rising to Chief Information Officer and President of the tech giant’s Data Center Group. In 2017, Diane moved to Google Cloud, spent a year as COO, and moved on to lead NovaSignal, a medtech startup, as Chair and CEO for three years. She now chairs privately held mmTron and serves on the boards of Broadcom, Haemonetics, and ScaleFlux.

Tory founded her eponymous lifestyle brand in 2004 with a mission to empower women. In 2009, she launched the Tory Burch Foundation to advance women entrepreneurship by providing access to capital, education and digital resources, and tackling stereotypes that hold women back.

Lisa honed her skills in media (Walt Disney and CBS) and government (as First Lady Hillary Clinton’s press secretary) before she moved to financial services, first at Citigroup (where she headed global marketing and corporate affairs) and then at Travelers, where she has been an EVP since 2011. Lisa is on the boards of Best Buy and the Travelers Foundation.

Born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, near Kennedy Space Center and growing up with parents who worked for Boeing, Leanne took a career path fitting her family passion. She joined Boeing in 1988 and rose through the ranks of finance and general management all the way to president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. Now in a global advisory role at Boeing, she has more time to work on advancing women in STEM. She serves on the boards of Deere & Company and Raytheon Technologies.

Born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Sukhinder grew up in Canada and graduated from the University of Western Ontario's Ivey School of Business. Over a 30-year career in tech, she's founded three companies (Yodlee, Joyus, theBoardlist), headed Asia Pacific and Latin America operations at Google, and served as CEO of StubHub and Xero—her current role leading a tech company traded on the Australian Stock Exchange. Sukhinder is an experienced board director, now on the board of Upstart, and she is the author of the WSJ bestseller Choose Possibility, Take Risks and Thrive, even when you Fail.

Starting her career as a New York lawyer, Wei traveled through roles at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley, where she led China and co-headed Asia until December 2021. She is on the board of LVMH Group.

A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Kelly graduated from Lafayette College and then earned an MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown. She began her career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan, moved into wealth management, and led the company’s U.S. Private Bank for six years. Kelly became CEO of City National Bank in Los Angeles in 2019 and spent six years at RBC-owned City National before leaving to start Verita Strategic Wealth Partners in 2025. She serves on the board of Snap.

Born in Charleston and raised in northern Virginia, Cady earned a BS in chemistry from MIT and a PhD in polymer science and engineering from the University of Massachusetts. She began her career as a research chemist in the U.S. Air Force before NASA selected her as an astronaut in 1992. Over 24 years, Cady flew two Space Shuttle missions, launched the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and spent six months aboard the International Space Station as Lead Robotics and Lead Science Officer. She retired as a Colonel in 2016. Today, Cady serves on several boards, including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Gwen grew up on the South Side of Chicago with working class parents who deeply valued education. After graduating from Butler University in Indianapolis, Gwen worked in development at Marquette University and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. In 2011, she joined the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago as a deputy director. As COO since 2020, she has worked to increase access to art for people of color and other underrepresented groups and played a key role in remaking the 60-person MCA board to be one of the most diverse in the U.S.

Alicia spent 25 years at General Motors, rising from engineer to EVP of Global Manufacturing & Labor Relations, before moving to Amazon in 2019 to head global customer fulfillment. In 2022, she joined Alto Pharmacy as CEO, scaled the startup to more than $1 billion in revenue, and sold it to Paulus Holdings in 2025. Recruited to lead Ford’s commercial vehicle division starting in October 2025, Alicia also serves on the board of JPMorgan Chase.

Donna was a world record holder at 13 (400 Individual Medley), a gold medalist at 17 (1964 Tokyo Olympics), and the world’s “most outstanding woman athlete” (AP and UPI) before she graduated from UCLA and then became an Emmy-winning sports journalist. She was the first President and Chair of the Women’s Sports Foundation, Chair of the groundbreaking 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup, and lead advisor to EY’s Women Athletes Business Network. Donna is on the executive board of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC).

Tami grew up in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, a doctor's daughter who quit pre-med to work as a customer service representative at US West. After US West became part of Verizon, Tami navigated through sales and service, marketing, and global operations all the way up to EVP of Verizon and CEO of Verizon Business—creating various programs to drive equity and empowerment. Tami left Verizon in 2022 after 35 years. She now serves on the boards of F5, John Deere, Skylo Technologies, York Space Systems, and Xerox.

From LA to Harvard to Oxford to the Pentagon, Michèle became the highest-ranking woman in DOD history when she served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Obama Administration. Now, in addition to heading WestExec Advisors, she chairs the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a bipartisan think tank she co-founded to develop pragmatic and principled national security policies. Michèle's board roles include Astra, Booz Allen Hamilton, CARE, and The Mission Continues.

Janet grew up in Maryland, earned a BS and MBA from Indiana University, and began her career as a consultant at Accenture before joining Deloitte. Over three decades, she rose from staff consultant—serving financial services and technology clients—to Chair and CEO of Deloitte Consulting. Until her retirement from Deloitte in 2023, Janet served as Chair of Deloitte U.S. Today, she is an Operating Partner at Mudita Venture Partners, a Detroit-based early-stage fund, and serves on the boards of Insight Enterprises, Quiver Bioscience, and Bright Pink, a healthcare-focused venture philanthropy fund where she is Chair. She also serves on the Milken Institute’s Steering Committee of the Women’s Health Network and is a Senior Advisor at WHAM (Women’s Health Access Matters).

Born in Brooklyn, Michele grew up in the New York City suburbs and went to Northwestern before starting her career at MTV. She joined the founding team of Comedy Central to head programming and then, after a brief stint at USA Network, returned as President. Michele led Comedy Central for 12 years, putting The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, South Park, and other Emmy-winning hits on the air. In 2025, Michele was named CEO of the nonprofit Comic Relief, which funds programs tackling childhood poverty.

Maëlle founded three companies before consulting for BCG and then serving as CEO of Ozone.ru, EVP of Operations at The Priceline Group, and COO of Compass. She was CEO of Techstars from 2021 until May 2024. Maëlle serves on the boards of Flo Health, Meero, and Edenred. She is also the author of Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s Empathy Problem and How to Fix It, about how technology’s misdirection from its noble pursuits can be corrected to strengthen community and improve society.

Margo's wide-ranging career has taken her from McKinsey to Discover Financial Services to Groupon to Google (as President of the Americas) to Mattel and Ancestry.com. After serving as CEO of the latter two companies, she is now CEO-Partner of Flagship Pioneering and CEO of Montai Therapeutics, a startup focused on applying AI and machine learning to fuel innovation in biotech. Margo is on the boards of McDonald's, Applovin, and several startups.

The daughter of Indonesian immigrants, Theresia grew up in Buffalo and earned a BS in engineering at Brown and an MBA at Stanford. She began her career as a consultant at Bain in San Francisco and, in 1999, moved into venture capital by joining Accel Partners. Over 15 years at Accel, she became the firm’s first female partner. In 2014, Theresia co-founded Aspect Ventures, and in 2019, she started Acrew Capital to invest in companies “solving big, challenging problems.” She serves on the boards of several startups, including Solv Health, Cato Networks, and HYCU. She’s also an investor in her hometown Buffalo Bills and the Golden State Warriors & Valkyries. And she is the lead investor in Major League Volleyball's Northern California franchise.

After growing up outside of San Francisco and graduating from UCLA, Kirsten began her career as an equity analyst covering the retail industry for Montgomery Securities. She spent several years as a consultant and angel investor before opening her own VC firm, Forerunner, in 2012. Kirsten has invested in more than 100 companies, mostly in the consumer space and many of them founded and led by women. A longtime champion of women in tech, Kirsten is a founding member of All Raise. She is also on the board of Nordstrom.

Desiree grew up in Miami and made her way to New York City to build on her passion for connecting people and big ideas. In 1999, she founded Full Picture, a consulting, production, and brand communications company. Desiree co-created and executive-produced the hit show Project Runway. She also helped spearhead the Jennifer Lopez-Grameen America partnership, which is investing $14 billion in Latina-owned businesses by 2030. As co-founder of DGNL Ventures, Desiree invests in high-growth consumer tech and media startups. She serves on the board of BeautyHealth.

Jessica grew up in Glendale, California, earned a BA in economics at Stanford, and dropped out of Stanford’s MBA program to co-found WeddingChannel.com, which The Knot acquired in 2006. Three years in marketing at Dell led Jessica to reroute again. She bootstrapped Stella & Dot, a multichannel marketer of jewelry, accessories, and beauty products, and as CEO for 20 years, scaled the business to $300 million in annual revenue. In 2023, Jessica co-founded FLI (Female Longevity Institute) MD with Lynn Jurich. In 2025, she founded Marklo AI, a platform that automates cross-channel marketing to help brands increase revenue and scale efficiently.

Marillyn’s journey includes 30 years at Lockheed Martin, where she rose to CEO and headed the company for eight years. She retired as Executive Chairman in 2021. She serves on the boards of Chevron and Johnson & Johnson.

Mellody grew up in Chicago, the youngest of six children raised by a single mother. During her sophomore years at Princeton, she interned at Ariel Investments—and stuck around. Mellody rose to Co-CEO in 2019 and added President and Director titles a year later. She has been on the board of Starbucks for two decades and served as Non-Executive Chair until early 2025. She is also on the board of JPMorgan Chase.

Kathleen grew up in Brookfield, Wisconsin, and graduated from Harvard in applied mathematics and economics. She started her career writing software at Oracle, earned an MBA at Stanford, and joined McKinsey, where she rose to Partner. Kathleen joined Microsoft in 2003 as COO of Worldwide Sales. She was the company’s Chief People Officer for a decade before moving to her current EVP role in 2025.

Lyndsay grew up in Columbus, Ohio, graduated from Vassar, and studied international relations, history and defense policy at Sciences Po and the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva. She spent over a decade as a member of the U.S. intelligence community. In that role, she worked in Europe and was assigned to American embassies in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan—tracing Islamic terrorist activities across Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Moving to the private sector, Lyndsay served as a top advisor to global investors and technology companies, the UK House of Lords, and Henry Kissinger. Since 2016, she has served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Mike Bloomberg and Bloomberg LP.

Angela grew up in South Africa during apartheid, an experience that shaped her commitment to advancing leadership and innovation. She earned a BA in Microbiology and Biochemistry from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from Cornell. Over two decades at Pfizer, Angela worked across all geographic regions and therapeutic areas, culminating in her role as Group President of Pfizer’s Biopharmaceuticals Group. Now, as CEO of Metaphore Biotechnologies, she is combining machine learning with molecular mimicry to develop new transformative medicines. Angela also serves on the board of UPS.

Jenny was a teenager when she started working at the company her grandfather founded in 1947. Her father built Franklin into a global asset management giant. Rising through a wide variety of roles, including Chief Information Officer, Jenny stepped up to CEO in 2020. After acquiring Legg Mason, Jenny now leads one of the world’s largest financial companies, with $1.7 trillion in assets under management. She is on the board of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Born in Toronto and raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Andrea went on to Princeton and New York City, where she made an early splash in fashion retail. In 1999, when she became Chairman and CEO of Avon, she was, at 40, the youngest woman ever to lead a Fortune 500 company. After 13 years at Avon’s helm, Andrea moved to the microfinance nonprofit Grameen America. She is on the boards of Apple, Rockefeller Capital Management, Unilever, and Wayfair.

Lynn grew up in Tacoma, earned her BS and MBA at Stanford, and worked briefly in private equity before she co-founded Sunrun with two Stanford GSB classmates in 2007. Sunrun pioneered the idea of solar energy as a subscription service to homeowners and, with her at the helm for seven years, grew to be America's largest residential installer of solar panels. Lynn moved from CEO to Co-Executive Chair in 2021. In 2023, she launched FLI MD. FLI stands for Female Longevity Institute and offers personalized services to help women increase their health and vitality in midlife and beyond.

Jenny grew up in Wisconsin, went to the University of Michigan, co-founded PEAK6 with $1.5 million in seed capital in 1997, and has since built a multibillion-dollar fintech company. Passionate about helping women succeed at every table—from the conference room to the boardroom and beyond—Jenny founded Poker Power to teach women a game that sharpens all sorts of skills related to leadership.

Kathy rose to prominence—and earned the nickname “Coach”—as head of Georgetown University’s women’s tennis team. Over 30 years, she has coached celebrities, pro athletes, monarchs and ambassadors, Supreme Court justices, top presidential appointees, and members of Congress. Coach founded IFE in 1992 to engage the global community to harness the power of soft diplomacy, innovation, data and technology. IFE partners with the University of Southern California on CS camps teaching machine learning and AI science to underserved youth around the world. Coach Kemper is a General Partner at her family office, Family Futures, LP. Other than "mom", Kemper embraces being called “Coach!”

Karen grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, drawn to technology by her engineer father who immigrated to the U.S. from Japan. After graduating from Duke University and Harvard Law School, Karen worked in Capital Markets and M&A at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City and London, and then headed west to Silicon Valley. Karen joined Silver Lake in 2004, rose to Managing Director and Chief Legal Officer in 2010, and now, as Chief Operating Officer, oversees many functions while also working on the private equity giant’s deals. She serves on the boards of several Silver Lake portfolio companies—Endeavor, Qualtrics, and Relativity—as well as Franklin Templeton.

Sallie grew up in Charleston, graduated from the University of North Carolina, and earned her MBA from Columbia. She began her career as an analyst at investment research firm Stanford Bernstein, rose to CEO there, and moved on to head wealth management and serve as CFO of Citigroup. On to Bank of America, Sallie led global wealth management there before rerouting to become an entrepreneur. In 2015, Sallie launched Ellevest, a female-focused digital investment platform. Ellevest manages more than $2 billion in assets and helps women investors build wealth.

After studying mechanical engineering at Tufts and earning her MBA at Kellogg, Ellen began her career at General Electric and then DuPont—never fathoming that she would rise to the top of that Fortune 500 giant. She led Dupont as Chair and CEO for seven years until 2015. Then she did something no one expected: She moved to Silicon Valley to lead Carbon, a 3D printing startup, where she remains Chair. Ellen is also on the boards of Amgen, Dell Technologies, and Goldman Sachs.

Jane grew up in New York City, learning early on about the power of innovation, industry disruption, and female empowerment from her grandmother, Estée Lauder. Jane earned a BA in history from Stanford, went to work in the family business, and built out major Estée Lauder brands including Origins and Clinique. As Chief Data Officer and EVP of Enterprise Marketing for four years, she accelerated the global beauty giant’s deployment of AI and advanced technology tools. After exiting those roles in 2024, Jane continues to serve on the Estée Lauder board and chair the company’s global women in leadership efforts. She is on the board of Eventbrite and several nonprofits, including Stanford, and she is developing TAW Ventures to bring innovative solutions to support pet health, wellness, and longevity.

Following early gigs at Morgan Stanley and Gap and a software startup, Aileen earned her VC chops as a partner at Kleiner Perkins. In 2012, after 13 years there, she left to start Cowboy Ventures. In 2018, Aileen co-founded the non-profit All Raise to connect female founders and funders and advance women in tech.

After training in sales and operations at Hilton, Stephanie moved to Marriott and rose, over 25 years, to President of the world’s largest hospitality company. In 2023, she jumped to Under Armour as President and CEO and began to execute cultural and business transformations. Stephanie is on the board of Home Depot.

Susan led ABC Primetime (where she greenlit Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy) and then Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Gilt, and AOL’s Brand Group before starting a venture capital firm, BBG Ventures, in 2014. She and her partner, Nisha Dua, invest in women-led startups. Susan is on the board of GoPro and TOGETHXR.

Anja's journey took her from Stanford to Harvard Law School to Salomon Brothers (in London) to WilmerHale to the U.S. State Department before she co-founded Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel with Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Harley, and Robert Gates. The strategic consulting firm helps companies navigate international markets. Anja is Executive Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum, and she is on the boards of Hims & Hers and Ripple Labs.

Marissa grew up in Wisconsin and earned two degrees at Stanford—a BS in Symbolic Systems and a master’s in Computer Science—before she arrived at Google as a software engineer and employee No. 20. As a product manager and VP overseeing large divisions, Marissa made a major impact on Google’s look, user experience, and scope. She spent five years at Yahoo as CEO before starting Sunshine in 2018. In 2025, Marissa transitioned Sunshine to Dazzle AI, which is building a next-gen AI personal assistant. Marissa serves on the boards of AT&T, Hilton, Starbucks, and Walmart.

Making her way from Egypt to Texas to Washington, D.C., Dina held senior roles in the Bush Administration before landing at Goldman Sachs in 2007. Over two decades at Goldman—with a break to serve as U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor in 2017—Dina led the firm’s Impact Investing and rose to Global Head of the Sovereign Business as well as Sustainability and Inclusive Growth. In 2023, she joined merchant bank BDT & MSD as Partner and Vice Chair, and in early 2026, she moved to Meta’s President and Vice Chairwoman. Dina is on the boards of ExxonMobil and Meta.

Ashley grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and began her career in the ad world. After stints at Grey Advertising and J. Walter Thompson (now Wunderman Thompson), she joined Johnson & Johnson as an Assistant Brand Manager. Over three decades, Ashley led some of J&J's largest global businesses including McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Ethicon (sutures), Vision Care, Diabetes, and MedTech. She joined the Procter & Gamble board in 2023. In early 2025, she became CEO of Insulet, a publicly held medical device company focused on diabetes care.

From Dartmouth to Stanford (MBA) to Bain to TSG Consumer Partners in 2004, Hadley has had a front row seat through the tech and private equity revolutions. She is one of three senior partners at San Francisco-based TSG, a gender-diverse private equity fund that has over $20 billion of assets under management and has funded more than 100 leading consumer and retail brands. Hadley oversees deal origination, diligence, portfolio management, and the firm’s operating group, TSG Vantage. In 2023, she was included in Fortune's “21 private equity power players shaping the $8 trillion industry as a new guard emerges.”

Beginning her career at Johnson & Johnson, Indra made stops at BCG, Motorola, and ABB before moving to PepsiCo in 1994 as SVP of Strategic Planning. She became Chair and CEO in 2006 and led Pepsi for 13 years until 2019. Indra serves on the boards of Amazon and Philips.

Courtney grew up in Town and Country, Missouri, graduated from Georgetown, and began her career in marketing. She shaped the Clinton Foundation’s early branding, directed communications for Dr. Jill Biden in the Obama White House, and rerouted to Airbnb in San Francisco, where she headed global affairs and strategic partnerships. Back in public service in 2021, Courtney served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Vice President and then moved to Paris to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO. She joined Anthropic in 2025 to help advance responsible AI and global partnerships.

A native Kiwi, Sarah graduated from the University of Auckland and began her career in marketing at Air New Zealand and Virgin Atlantic Airways. A lifelong love of sports led her to Nike, then to President roles at PepsiCo-owned Gatorade and Equinox fitness clubs, and later to CEO roles at Flywheel Sports and EXOS, a human performance coaching company. In early 2026, Sarah joined Peloton to build a member base that includes more than 1 million people across the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Sarah also serves on the board of JetBlue Airways.

From Brooklyn to Miami (Florida International University) to all ends of the media universe, Dawn Ostroff began her career as a TV news reporter before she moved to entertainment programming at Lifetime, UPN, and The CW. She went on to found and build Condé Nast Entertainment, turning Vanity Fair and New Yorker articles into movies and TV series, and then went to Spotify, where she was Chief Content and Advertising Business Officer until 2023. Dawn is now on the boards of Mattel, Moloco, and Sweetgreen. She's in the early stages of building a startup focused on the future of entertainment.

Asahi was born in Guyana, grew up in Brooklyn’s housing projects, and made her way to Swarthmore College and Columbia Law School. She started her career in the New York and Frankfurt offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and moved to Goldman Sachs in 2006. Asahi was the firm’s Co-Chief Compliance Officer and Global Head of Investment Banking Division Compliance before she stepped up to head Global Corporate Engagement. She now leads the firm's Community Reinvestment Act program and initiatives such as 10,000 Small Businesses, 10,000 Women, One Million Black Women, Goldman Sachs Gives, and Community TeamWorks. In 2024, Asahi added the role of Chair of Goldman Sachs’ $3 billion Urban Investment Group. She also serves on Goldman Sachs’ Management Committee.

Born in Atlantic City, Jackie ran her first business at age 16, selling games of chance on the Wildwood boardwalk. After graduating from Wharton, she worked in M&A at Goldman Sachs, in private equity at Apex Partners, and then as Chief Development Officer at Yahoo. In 2015, she joined Square, built Square Capital, the company's lending arm, and also served as the company's CHRO. Jackie has chaired the San Francisco Fed's Economic Development Council since 2015. In 2021, she bought Lead Bank, a community bank in Kansas City. She is on the boards of Affirm, Endeavor, and Nubank.

Katherine grew up in Houston, Texas, earned a BA from Vanderbilt and an MBA from Stanford, and began her career on Wall Street. A financial analyst at Kidder Peabody and then a consultant at Bain, she moved into retail at Williams-Sonoma, where she spent 12 years and headed business development. In 2014, Katherine pivoted to private equity, first at Altamont Capital Partners and now at GingerBread Capital, where she's putting capital behind women founders.

Jana’s journey began in Maine, took her to Vassar, and on to Stanford, where she earned her MBA. She spent 18 years at recruiting giants Korn Ferry and Russell Reynolds, where she led the Global Consumer Digital and Media practice. In 2014, Jana founded Rich Talent Group—an executive search firm that builds diverse leadership teams and boards—where she spent over a decade as CEO and then Executive Chair.

Unlocking opportunity has been Rachel’s passion ever since she was a teenager growing up in Colorado. At Stanford, while pursuing her MBA, she launched her first startup, Student Blueprint. In 2015, she co-founded Guild to mobilize companies to offer education, reskilling and career pathways to American frontline employees. Now, as CEO, Rachel is scaling a fast-growing unicorn.

Ginni’s career journey began as a systems engineer at IBM, took her through global consulting and operating roles, and led to eight years at the helm as Chairman, President and CEO. She retired in 2020 after 39 years at IBM. Ginni co-chairs One Ten and is on the board of JPMorgan Chase.

Born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia, Evan went on to Boston College and then Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) for her Masters in international public policy. She worked early on in the Clinton White House as an aide to Hillary Clinton, and then held a variety of key roles in the Obama Administration: Assistant to the Vice President and Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, and later Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Evan left government in 2017 and helped launch Axios, serving as an EVP during its startup stage. In 2021, she returned to the White House as Cabinet Secretary and held that position for four years.

Moving from Buffalo to MIT to Apple (Tokyo) to General Magic (a brilliant failed Silicon Valley startup) to Planet Out (as CEO) to Google (as head of new business development and Google[x]) to the Obama Administration (as Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President), Megan has had an incredibly rich journey. Now she is building shift7, a collaborative tech platform with a mission to fix systemic social, environmental and economic problems. Megan is co-founder of the Malala Fund and on the boards of MIT and Vital Voices.

An engineer who began her career at Ford Motor, Sonia moved to Sun Microsystems and then Gap in 2004. She led Old Navy for four years before becoming CEO of Gap Inc. (Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, Athleta) in 2020. She left Gap in 2022 and now serves as a Senior Advisor at Accenture and as a board member at Foot Locker, Tanger, and Tractor Supply.

With a BA from Miami University and an MBA from Washington University, Chrissy rose from management trainee to CEO of the company founded by her grandfather in 1957. She took the helm of Enterprise Holdings in 2020, changed the name to Enterprise Mobility, and is building the company beyond its rental-car core. Chrissy is on the boards of Commerce Bank and Crawford Group, and she's an owner of the first majority female-owned soccer club in MLS history: St. Louis CITY SC.

Jenn started her career at Procter & Gamble, moved on to senior roles at several tech companies, and led Keynote Systems before she joined PagerDuty as CEO in 2016. She took PagerDuty public on the NYSE in 2019 and built PagerDuty into a global leader in AI-first operations management. In 2026, Jenn transitioned to Executive Chair. She also serves on the board of Estée Lauder.

Shriti’s journey began in Uganda and took her to India and then the UK, where she started as an investment banker and served as a Minister in the British government. Her global finance expertise led her to board roles at Astra Zeneca, BHP, and SantanderUK, where she served as Chair. She has chaired the Prudential PLC board since 2021.

Kathi began her career as an electrical engineer designing aircraft and helicopter systems at General Electric and Lockheed Martin. She quit, went to law school, focused on patent law, and became a top IP litigator and Managing Partner of the Silicon Valley office of Winston Taylor. Kathi joined the Biden White House in 2021 and served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Kathi returned to Winston Taylor in 2025 and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

A native of Roanoke, Sherrie Westin graduated from the University of Virginia and began her career in Washington, D.C., rising quickly through the ranks of ABC News, U.S. News & World Report, and the George H. W. Bush White House. In 1998, Sherrie joined Sesame Workshop as EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, and in 2024, she became President and CEO. Sherrie oversees research-driven programs that reach children in more than 190 countries.

Meg grew up on Long Island, graduated Princeton, and began her career as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble. She rose quickly through Bain, Walt Disney, and Stride Rite before heading FTD, the floral delivery giant, and then Hasbro's Playskool division. She joined a 30-person startup called eBay in 1998 and led eBay over a decade to $8 billion in revenue. After an unsuccessful run for governor of California in 2010, Meg headed two other tech giants, HP and HPE, as Chair and CEO. Her entrepreneurial venture, Quibi, shuttered in 2020, and Meg pivoted—serving as U.S. Ambassador to Kenya until early 2025. Meg serves on the board of CoreWeave.