How former Intel exec Diane Bryant went from homeless teen to CEO of a multimillion-dollar start-up By Morgan Smith Like many 18-year-olds, Diane Bryant had no clue how she wanted to spend her life. It wasn’t until one of her classmates complimented Bryant on her number-crunching skills that she even considered a career in engineering. “I was sitting in Calculus…
Asian Women in Tech Face Harsh Workplace Asian women in tech say they feel invisible and discriminated against because of their accents, a new report says. By Sakshi Venkatraman Asian women in the tech industry face an entirely different set of difficulties at work than their white peers, a new study finds. East, Southeast and South Asian women reported issues…
How Cher Wang, A Taiwanese Entrepreneur And Philanthropist, Made History By Shelley Zalis As many renowned faces appear throughout March to commemorate Women’s History Month, let’s also shine a spotlight on women making history now. One of those remarkable individuals is Cher Wang, co-founder and chairwoman of HTC. Wang, a Taiwanese entrepreneur and philanthropist was one of the first women to…
Synchrony Financial’s Tech And Operating Chief Brings Agile Practices To The Executive Team By Peter High Carol Juel has been the chief information officer at Synchrony Financial since the company’s creation, after it spun out from General Electric just over seven and a half years ago. She had worked at GE for the decade prior to that. In the early…
These entrepreneurs have big visions for improving lives through technology. What sets them apart: the leaps they took in 2021 to deliver on these visions. Each meeting a pressing need amplified by the pandemic, here are five innovative social entrepreneurs building tech solutions for communities across the world.
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo on How She Found Her Own Leadership Groove By Maria Aspan Fidji Simo is used to standing out in Silicon Valley. A French immigrant who prefers high heels to hoodies and still speaks with a musical accent, Simo spent a decade climbing the product ranks at Facebook, eventually becoming its most senior female product executive. She ran Facebook’s flagship…
BY ROSE MINUTAGLIO After the Vietnam War, Annie Vang’s parents escaped persecution in Laos and traversed the Mekong River in the dead of night to seek safety in Thailand. “My family had no choice but to flee or die,” she says. Vang and her family are Hmong, an ethnic and cultural group who lost their land—and way of life—after siding with…
Here are eight ideas for how the tech industry and employers of IT talent can attract, retain and nurture more women technologists.
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By Jessie Tu Mani Thiru flew into Singapore a few months ago and was sent straight into the island city-state’s Covid-19 circuit breaker, where she isolated for the next month. She has taken on the role of Business Lead in the Aerospace & Satellite Solutions team at Amazon Web Services for that region — a position she is ‘really stoked’ about. “I’ve been wanting…
