For someone who had never watered a plant in her life, 59-year-old Anju Srivastava, CEO of Wingreens Farms, has created a thriving farm-to-table company. Within the span of a decade, a project that began by growing herbs on a leased half-acre of land in Gurugram, Haryana, has turned into a start-up success story, with its dips, sauces, and spreads selling in 140 cities across 9,000 stores. Recently, the company acquired juice brand Raw Pressery. If pesto and hummus once unfamiliar to most Indians are now commonplace food items in urban kitchens, it’s thanks to Wingreens. From a small business, the company hopes to become an Rs 500-crore company in the next few years. Marquee private equity firms like Switzerland-based responsAbility Investments and Sequoia Capital have funded it.
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Ways to Take Representation of Women in Tech to New Levels
Despite ongoing efforts to further diversify who fills the ranks of tech jobs, seeing real results is taking a protracted amount of time.
Today marks International Women’s Day, once again calling attention to women’s rights and highlighting movements to improve gender parity in technology roles. The topic is far from new but has grown into a resounding call for ongoing discussions within organizations rather than one-off showpieces. Some stakeholders from SAP, McAfee, Dataminr, and Workforce Logiq offered insight on ways organizations might make lasting, progressive changes that benefit the business while tackling gender imbalance in the tech scene.
ABC-TVâs Deborah Roberts: Her 3 keys to reaching the top Share:
Award-winning broadcast journalist Deborah Roberts says she lives a privileged life on the Upper East Side of New York City with a successful network television career. But it wasnât always that way.
Roberts shared her road to success and the lessons she learned along the way during the program âKnow Your Worth. The Audacity to Believe in You!â which was part of the 2021 American Bar Association Virtual Midyear Meeting.
Growing up in the segregated Deep South, Roberts was raised in the small town of Perry, Georgia, one of nine children in her family.
By Susanna Rust2021-02-10T14:55:00+00:00
Two of the world’s largest asset managers have announced big changes in their senior executive ranks, with one observer noting the new appointments reflected important trends in the industry.
Amundi this morning announced that Yves Perrier, CEO for 14 years, will be handing over the reins to Valérie Baudson upon the asset manager’s annual general meeting in May.
Separately, BlackRock yesterday announced that Rachel Lord, most recently head of its business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, had been appointed to lead its Asia Pacific business.
Amin Rajan, CEO of CREATE-Research, said the elevation of Baudson to the CEO role at Amundi was well deserved, as was the appointment of Lord as head of “the pivotal” Asia-Pacific (APAC) business at BlackRock.
Reed Smith boosts diversity agenda with billable-hours credit scheme
29 January 2021
Diversity and gender-related activities to count towards 50 hours of billable work
Shutterstock Reed Smith is encouraging its lawyers to carry out diversity and gender-related work by rewarding them with 50 hours of credit towards their billable time targets. The incentive scheme allows fee-earners and other timekeepers to spend time working on activities that fall under the firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Women Initiative Network and Racial Equity Action Plan (REAP) programmes. Sandy Thomas, Reed Smith’s global managing partner, said: “Building an inclusive culture is integral to our business and should be rewarded and incentivised, not left to chance. Diversity is an area where Reed Smith has always been a leader in the legal industry, and this new policy is a real investment behind our own commitment and goals.”