Opening Doors for Women in Leadership Roles
What will it take to have more women in business leadership roles? One entrepreneur tells how she is opening doors for others.
What will it take to have more women in business leadership roles? One entrepreneur tells how she is opening doors for others.
One might wonder why I would choose to write about an issue of women and board seats just after taking on a new role as a corporate director of a public company. My personal bottom line is this: Setting arbitrary quotas without providing the key operational experiences / support / sponsorship will mean only that we recruit unqualified people.
I'm a veteran startup executive and venture capitalist in the technology industry. Our firm, Illuminate Ventures, invests in companies led by strong, entrepreneurial teams in a cross-section of high-tech sectors leveraging next generation technologies and services, with a particular focus on cloud computing and real-time analytics. In the process of researching potential investments, I became aware of a significant innovation opportunity overlooked by many early-stage tech companies.