Founder and Managing Partner, Rethink Impact
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 is on the board of several women-led startups.
Past Managing Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright U.S.
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.
Board Member, Meta and Macerich
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. Peggy serves on the boards of Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.) and Macerich.
Chair and CEO, General Motors
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.
CEO, Best Buy
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.
CEO, Teach For America
Straight out of college, Elisa joined Teach For America as a corps member and taught first and second grade bilingual education in South Phoenix. Hooked on TFA's mission to advance educational equity, she led the non-profit's work in her hometown in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, rose quickly to COO, and became CEO in 2015. Based in Houston, Elisa now oversees a network of more than 65,000 TFA corps members and alumni working in over 300 communities across the U.S.
Former CEO, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Roz grew up in Detroit, graduated from Spelman College, and began her career as a chemist. She spent 22 years at Kimberly Clark and was President of a global business unit when she moved to Walmart and rose to CEO of Sam’s Club. Roz later served as COO and Group President of Starbucks, left in 2021 to lead Walgreens, and was CEO for two years. She is on the board of United Airlines.
Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Tory Burch
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.
EVP of Marketing, Communications and Customer Experience, Travelers
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 public 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.
Former Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor, The Boeing Company
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.
Former CEO of China and Co-CEO of Asia Pacific, Morgan Stanley
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 Estee Lauder and LVMH Group.
CEO, Alto Pharmacy
Alicia joined Alto Pharmacy from Amazon, where she was SVP of Global Customer Fulfillment. Before joining Amazon in 2019, Alicia spent 24 years at General Motors, where she rose from engineer to plant manager to senior jobs in customer experience to EVP of Global Manufacturing and Labor Relations. She serves on the board of General Mills.
President, DaMar Inc.
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).
Former EVP of Verizon & CEO of Verizon Business
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.
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors
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.
CEO, Techstars
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. CEO of Techstars since 2021, Maëlle is also on the boards of Meero and Edenred, based in her native France. Her book Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It came out in 2020.
President, Spelman College
Helene made her way from Buffalo to Barnard to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and on to Johns Hopkins School of Public Health before she spent 20 years at the CDC, working primarily on HIV/AIDS. A pediatrician and public health physician, she led the Gates Foundation’s HIV, TB, and Reproductive Health program and then spent a decade as President and CEO of CARE. Helene was President and CEO of the Chicago Community Trust before being named the 11th President of Spelman College in 2002. She is on the boards of Coca-Cola, Organon, and Palo Alto Networks.
Co-Founder and CEO, Montai Health
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 Health, 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.
Founder & Managing Partner, Forerunner
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.
Founder and CEO, Full Picture
After an auspicious start in entertainment PR, Desiree founded Full Picture, a brand communications and consulting company, in 1999. She went on to co-create the hit show Project Runway and co-found DGNL Ventures, which architects deals in media and tech, focusing on women founders. Desiree serves on the board of BeautyHealth.
Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin
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.
Former Chief Commercial Officer, President, Global Biopharmaceuticals Business, Pfizer
Angela grew up in South Africa during apartheid, earned a BA in Microbiology and Biochemistry at the University of Cape Town, and an MBA from Cornell. She joined Pfizer in 1997 and worked across all geographic regions and therapeutic areas as she rose through marketing, sales, and general management. In 2019, Angela was promoted to Group President of Pfizer's Biopharmaceuticals Group, the company’s commercial arm. Angela is focused on advancing diverse leadership. She is on the board of UPS.
President and CEO, Franklin Templeton
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 data officer, Jenny stepped up to CEO in 2020. After acquiring Legg Mason, Jenny now leads one of the world’s largest financial companies, with $1.5 trillion in assets under management.
CEO, Institute for Education (IFE)
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!”
Founder & Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures
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.
Co-Founder and Partner in
Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel
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 also the Executive Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum. And she's on two corporate boards: Ripple Labs and Overseas Shipping Group.
Partner and Senior Managing Director,
TSG Consumer Partners
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.”
CEO, Lead Bank
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 in Kansas City. She is on the boards of Affirm, Endeavor, and Nubank.
Former Chairman, President and CEO, IBM
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.
CEO and President
Enterprise Mobility
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.
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
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 & Strawn. Kathi joined the Biden White House in April and now, as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, she reports to Secretary Gina Raimondo.