‘Rising Stars’ Category

November 9th, 2009, 1:00 pm

Rising Star: Nitu Gupta, Vice President of Product Development, Sodexo

by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
Nitu Gupta, Vice President of Product Development at integrated food and facilities management giant Sodexo, knows something about the power of leveling the playing field by doing the right thing. Born and raised in New Delhi, India, she had wanted to pursue a degree in economics and math and have [...]

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June 17th, 2009, 1:00 pm

Rising Star: Heather Paquette, Partner, KPMG LLP

by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
There aren’t many professional women who can claim that they decided to pursue a career in accounting while they were inside an Italian mountain.  Yet that’s exactly where Heather Paquette, Partner in the Midwest Information Technology Advisory (ITA) Practice in the Chicago office of KPMG LLP, came to her decision.  [...]

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June 4th, 2008, 7:30 am

Rising Stars: Katherine Bradford, Global Head of Marketing and Public Relations at Patsystems

By: Sophie Fletcher
“It’s important to have a woman mentor,” said Katherine Bradford, who was recently promoted to Global Head of Marketing at the trading technology firm, Patsystems. “Not only can you ask her about business and your career, you can also ask if it’s appropriate to wear dangly earrings in a business meeting.”
Joking aside, at [...]

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May 22nd, 2008, 7:00 am

Rising Stars Series: Interview with Ani M. Vartanian, VP of Rockwood Capital

Contributed by Heather Cassell
What a fascinating and dramatic world we live in, at least from Ani M. Vartanian’s perspective. With the credit crunch, Bear Stearns crumbling, foreclosure crisis, historical election year, political scandals, and the year hasn’t even hit the halfway mark yet.
“It’s better than reality TV,” said Vartanian, 32, vice president of the acquisition [...]

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