By Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago)
We were having lunch somewhere in the 50’s in Midtown Manhattan. I had just gotten off the plane from Chicago and hailed a cab. I was meeting Mary Chung, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Marketing at ELX Futures, an electronic futures exchange launched in July 2009 and backed by [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
Karen Hughes, Vice President, Technology at American Express is passionate about ensuring that women feel comfortable taking a career break – whether taking leave to care for children or other family members, or taking time off to care for themselves.
She explained, “Perceptions around on-ramps and off-ramps are still [...]

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em>By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
The best advice Antoinette Hamilton ever received came from a Mary Timmons, a former mentor. “I was nineteen years old, and she told me ‘Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.’ It set the tone for my career.”
Now Director of Diversity [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
“I got involved with the FWA 11 years ago – I was essentially a newlywed, pre-kids. I wanted to give back to the community, and had always been involved in mentoring,” said Susan Ganz, President of the Financial Women’s Association of New York and a Financial Services Professional at [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
“Advise and evangelize, that’s what interests me,” said Niamh Bushnell, North American Senior Vice President at MoneyMate, a provider of investment data management solutions to global asset managers. Bushnell, who’s worked throughout Europe and now in the US and was recently named one of the 50 Most Influential Irish-American [...]

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By Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago)
It is Wednesday morning when I sit down to interview Molly McGregor, the Director of Corporate Affairs at the International Securities Exchange. McGregor is getting ready to attend a conference in Rhode Island as the representative of ISE’s Political Action Committee (ISE PAC) the upcoming weekend.
“That’s one thing that has changed,” [...]

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By Gigi DeVault (Munich)
When the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley opened in 1991, it marked the first time that five United States presidents had gathered in one place. This prestigious gathering of ribbon-cutters—Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush Sr. and their respective First Ladies—at the largest Presidential library in the nation, could be [...]

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By Andrea Newell (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
At age 14, Laura Herman spent the summer on the north coast of Spain with a host family. It was her first taste of independence, immersion into another culture and glimpse of a society affected by political unrest. Once back in the quiet Boston suburb where she grew up, she [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
“My job at Google is to represent the customer,” explained Claire Hughes Johnson, Vice President, Global Online Sales at Google. And Johnson is enthusiastic about the ability for technology to improve business for her customers. “In terms of impact that grows a business, tech has the ability a lot [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
“I’m very committed to making corporations be successful with the integration and promotion of women in leadership,” said Liz Cornish, an author, leadership expert, and the first women in the world to kayak the Zambezi River in Africa.
Describing her kayaking adventure, she said, “I talked my way across the [...]

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