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Announcing the 2018 Women Worth Watching® Award Winners

Executives Leading the Way to Excellence in the Workplace, Marketplace and the World

CLEVELAND, OH June 7, 2018

Profiles in Diversity Journal today proudly announces the winners of the 17th Annual Women Worth Watching® Awards. In celebrating the 17th year anniversary, there have been 132 nominations selected as 2018 winners. Approximately 10% of this year’s winners are from beyond our borders: Canada, Germany, India, UK. These leaders join past winners, (see www.womenworthwatching.com) some of whom have gone on to become CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. While countless others have moved forward to lead new business units, drive new markets, launch new ventures, and help develop the next generation of women leaders.

Their profiles in the upcoming Women Worth Watching edition will recognize and publicly celebrate their commitment and achievements. As the companies select the nominees for this award, it represents C-suite support of women in leadership, so we also enhance the visibility and reputations of the companies and organizations that empower, support, and employ these incredible women. The 2018 Women Worth Watching magazine edition will be available to the public in August.

The 2018 Women Worth Watching Award® recipients are:

Company/Organization AwardRecipient Title

Abercrombie & Fitch Stacia Jones Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer (Global)

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Ruth Cotter Chief Human Resources Officer and Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Investor Relations

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Suzanne Plummer Corporate Vice President, Design Engineering

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) India Private Limited

Jaya Jagadish Corporate Vice President, Design Engineering

Aflac Audrey Boone Tillman Executive Vice President and General Counsel

American Airlines Poonam Mohan VP, Information Technology

Archer Daniels Midland Company

Camille Batiste Vice President, Global Procurement

Archer Daniels Midland Company

Alix Dowling Vice President, Global Tax

Arrow Electronics Nichole Wiley-Marks Vice President, Sales Operations

Arrow Electronics Susanne Endress General Manager, Arrow ECS Germany

AutoGravity Annie Boneta Director of Talent, Culture and Engagement

AutoGravity Meesh Pierce Vice President, Product Management

AutoGravity Sheng Wang Chief Technology Officer

AutoGravity Jennifer Ishiguro EVP and General Counsel

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP Jeny Maier Partner

Baker Donelson Paula Estrada de Martin, Ph.D.

Of Counsel; Co-Chair, Louisiana Life Sciences and Technology Team

Bank of Canada Jing Yang Deputy Managing Director

Best Best & Krieger LLP Charity Schiller Partner

BrandEQ Nadine Spencer CEO

Burns & Levinson LLP Lisa M Cukier Partner

Burns & Levinson LLP Christine N. Fletcher Partner

Caesars Entertainment Erin Chamberlin General Manager for Horseshoe Baltimore; Regional President,

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Horseshoe Baltimore and Harrah’s Philadelphia

Catalyst Meesha Rosa Senior Director, Corporate Board Services

Cathedral Capital Brooke Lively President and CEO

Charter School Business Management, Inc.

Gretchen Liga Senior Development Consultant

Charter School Business Management, Inc.

Tina Perez Director of Program Management

Children's Aid Society of Toronto Nicole Bonnie Director of Diversity, Equity and Community Development

Cisco Denise Lombard Director, Supplier Diversity, Global Procurement Services

Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions

Grace Huang President

Daily Burn Tricia Han CEO

Day Pitney LLP Carrie Webb Olson Partner

Day Pitney LLP Dina Kapur Sanna Partner

Day Pitney LLP Florence Davis Partner

Day Pitney LLP Mary B. Rogers Partner

Dechert LLP Christina G. Sarchio Partner

Dictionary.com Elizabeth McMillan CEO

Durham Regional Police Service Nancy Accettone Detective Constable

Einhorn, Harris, Ascher, Barbarito & Frost, PC

Patricia M. Barbarito Managing Partner

ESPN Libby Geist VP and Executive Producer, ESPN Films and Original Content

Essilor Vision Foundation Kim Schuy President, Essilor Vision Foundation

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Esurance Insurance Services Inc.

Johanna Steans Manager, Diversity and Inclusion Community Engagement

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Carolyn Whitcher Vice President, Health Care Improvement

EY Camila Cote Miami Office Managing Partner

Fannie Mae Renee Schultz Senior Vice President, Capital Markets

Fannie Mae Charmaine Brown Director, Office of Minority and Women Inclusion

Fish & Richardson Martina Tyreus Hufnal Principal

Fish & Richardson Angela D. Follett, Ph.D. Principal

Fish & Richardson Christine A. Goddard, Ph.D.

Principal

Fish & Richardson Elizabeth Flanagan Principal

Fish & Richardson Katherine D. Prescott Of Counsel

Fish & Richardson Lisa Greenwald-Swire Principal

Flexport Evelyn Gillie Director of Engineering

Flexport Susanne Schöneberg Director of Flexport.org

Flexport Julie Harris Director of Enterprise Sales

Fogo de Chão Selma Oliveira Chief People and Culture Officer

FordHarrison LLP Angela B. Cummings Office Managing Partner, Charlotte

Fox Rothschild LLP Yesenia Gallegos Partner

Fox Rothschild LLP Donna B. More Partner

Gibbons P.C. Jennifer A. Hradil Director, Commercial & Criminal Litigation Department; Leader, Appellate Team

Greenberg Traurig, LLP Johnine P. Barnes Shareholder

GSK Dominique Kagele Medical Science Liaison, Respiratory

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HARMAN Heather M. DeGregorio Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel, Corporate and Compliance Officer

HARMAN Dorothee de Backer Product Marketing Director, Lifestyle Audio EMEA

Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP

Ilene Jaroslaw Partner

Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP

Helene Hechtkopf Partner

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP Karen A. Sebaski Associate

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP Eileen Monaghan DeLucia

Associate

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP Jayme Jonat Associate

Honeywell Que T. Dallara Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer

HP Inc. Stephanie Dismore Vice President and General Manager, Americas Channels

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Joanne Osendarp Partner

Humacyte Gretchen Smith Executive Director, Bioprocessing

Huntington National Bank Rhonda Knight Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion Manager

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Kimberly C MacLeod Partner

Idaho National Laboratory Dr. Donna J. O'Kelly Chief Operations Officer at the Materials and Fuels Complex

Idaho National Laboratory Jennifer B. Porter Battalion Fire Chief

Idaho National Laboratory Heidi Scott Performance Management Lead

Idaho National Laboratory Chere Morgan Director of Radiological Control and Emergency MGMT

Ingredion Incorporated Elizabeth Adefioye Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

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Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Sherita H. Golden Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine

Jones Walker LLP Raedtha A. Vasquez Partner

Kelly Educational Staffing/Teachers On Call

Nicola Soares Vice President and Managing Director

KPMG LLP Jackie Daylor National Managing Partner-Audit Quality & Professional Practice

LaSalle Network Sirmara Campbell Chief Human Resources Officer

Latham & Watkins LLP Michelle V. Kelban Partner, Global Co-Chair of the Real Estate Practice Group

LevelUp Christina Dorobek Chief Sales Officer

Lincoln Financial Group Lucy Gase Senior Vice President, LFN Distribution Transformation

LinkedIn Jenie Gao Director of Engineering

LinkedIn Rosanna Durruthy Head of Global Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

LinkedIn Lori Allen Senior Director, Human Resources

LinkedIn Kalinda Raina Head of Global Privacy, Senior Director

Marvel Trinh Tran Executive, Production & Development, Marvel

Mattel, Inc. Jessica Kimball Head of Diversity and Inclusion

Mayer Brown LLP Joanna K. Horsnail Partner; Co-chair, Mayer Brown's Committee on Professional Advancement

MetLife Cindy R. Pace Assistant Vice President

Millennium Capital and Recovery Corporation

Jayne R. Bronchetti President

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP S. Eva Wolf Partner

Moss Adams Kim Koch Consulting Partner

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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Nekia H. Jones Partner

New American Funding Patty L. Arvielo President/Co-Founder

New York Life Sonali Virendra Senior Vice President, Agency Sales & Digital Strategy

Northwestern Mutual Leslie Barbi Senior Vice President, Public Investments

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Anne K. Burkhart Senior Patent Coordinator

Phillips Lytle LLP Anna Mercado Clark Partner

Polsinelli Mary Clare Bonaccorsi Office Managing Partner, Chicago; Practice Chair, Healthcare Litigation and Disputes

RBC Wealth Management–U.S. Amy Sturtevant Senior Vice President and Branch Director

Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP Shari A. Brandt Partner

Robins Kaplan LLP Katherine Barrett Wiik Principal

Robins Kaplan LLP Meegan F. Hollywood Principal

Rockwell Collins Heather L. Robertson Sr. Director, Rotary Wing Solutions

Sandboxx Corp. Leslie A. Strong Chief Equality Officer

Sandia National Laboratories Blythe Clark Manager, R&D Science and Engineering

Sandia National Laboratories Renee Holland Director, Employee Health Services

ServiceMaster Mary Kay Wegner President, ServiceMaster Franchise Services Group

Seward & Kissel LLP Rita M. Glavin Partner & Co-Head of the Government Enforcement and Internal Investigations Practice

Squire Patton Boggs Traci Martinez Partner, Global Board Member

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Melissa Sawyer Partner

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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Rima Terradista Executive Director, Strategic Credit Products, Americas Division

Terex Corporation Lauren Neubauer Assistant General Counsel

Terminix Commercial Kelly Kambs President

The Climate Corporation Meg Makalou Chief People Officer

The Walt Disney Company Stephanie Young SVP, Operations, Disneyland Resort

The Walt Disney Company Nancy Kanter EVP, Content and Creative Strategy, Disney Channels Worldwide, and General Manager, Disney Junior Worldwide

TRIBE Lisa Targett UK General Manager

Ulmer & Berne LLP Christine E. Watchorn Partner

Unilever Leena K. Nair Chief Human Resources Officer

UnitedHealthcare Rebecca Madsen Chief Consumer Officer

UnitedHealthcare Global Margaret-Mary Wilson Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice President

Venable LLP Claudia A. Lewis Partner

WilmerHale Danielle Y. Conley Partner

WilmerHale Natalie Hanlon Leh Partner

WilsonHCG (Wilson Human Capital Group)

Libby Herrmann Client Relationship Director, North America

Profiles in Diversity Journal, a quarterly publication, is dedicated to promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion in the corporate, government, nonprofit, STEM, and higher education sectors. Since 1999, Diversity Journal has helped stimulate organizational change by profiling the visionary leadership, innovative programs, and individual commitments to making it happen.

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