NYWA STAR AWARDED TO WPO PRESIDENT
March 26, 2008
Marsha Firestone, Ph.D., president and founder of the Women Presidents’ Organization and Women Presidents’ Educational Organization, received a 2007 New York Women’s Agenda Star Award at the New York Women’s Agenda Annual Star Breakfast. The event held in New York City honors outstanding women who represent the spirit of New York, provide leadership in business and in the community, and are role models for other women. NYWA is a coalition of women professionals and community activists who support the diversity and interests of New York women through collaboration, advocacy and education. For more information visit www.nywa.org. For more information on the WPO or WPEO, visit www.womenspresidentsorg.com or www.wpeo.us.
The Home Depot adds woman to board
March 26, 2008
The world’s largest home improvement retailer, The Home Depot, has appointed three new members to its board of directors, including one female, Karen Katen. The other new members are F. Duane Ackerman and Ari Bousbib. These appointments are a part of the company’s planned succession process to replace four existing board members, John L. Clendenin, Claudio X. Gonzales, Milledge A. Hart III and Kenneth G. Langone, who are scheduled to retire from the board in May 2008.
Katen currently serves as chairman of the Pfizer Foundation, and recently retired as vice chairman of Pfizer Inc. and as president of Pfizer Human Health, the company’s principal operating group. Katen joined Pfizer in 1974 and has held numerous leadership roles within the organization until her retirement earlier this year. In 1993, she was named executive vice president of Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceuticals and she was promoted to president of that same business unit in 1995. During 2001, she was named president of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group, the global pharmaceutical unit of Pfizer, and was elected executive vice president of Pfizer. She was elected vice chairman of Pfizer in 2005. With this recent announcement, The Home Depot’s board currently consists of 14 members, with 13 of them being outside directors.
Center for Women’s Business Research names new board members
March 26, 2008
Dr. Candida Brush, Dr. Jana Matthews and Emily Stone were recently elected to the board of The Center for Women’s Business Research. Their threeyear term began as of Jan.1.
Brush, a professor, holds the president’s chair in entrepreneurship at Babson College in Babson Park, Mass. Matthews is founder and CEO of The Jana Matthews Group, a Boulder, Colo., company that offers leadership consulting. Stone is founder and president of Stone Group, a New York-based provider of strategic business and licensing services to fashion and consumer products companies.
The CFWBR’s mission “is to provide data-driven knowledge to advance the economic, social and political impact of women business owners and their enterprises worldwide.” For more information, visit www.womensbusinessresearch.org
Editor’s Notes …
March 26, 2008
As a business magazine editor I sometimes feel like I am in a period film and belong to the aristocrat or bourgeoisie society.Every year, I wait in anticipation for the “society season”to begin as if I lived as a Victorian. Read more
