Technology, Women and Equity at the 2014 Grace Hopper Conference

Guest post from YY Lee, my business partner and COO of FirstRain I am proud of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (@ghc) community this week for raising important issues and grappling with uncomfortable, difficult-to-solve questions. I appreciate FirstRain’s own Penny Herscher (@pennyherscher) for putting herself out there to moderate the Male Allies Panel, despite the concerns going-in about how to constructively include that perspective.  The fiery reaction to that session raised the level of engagement around deep-seated systemic equity issues in our industry in a way that [...]

By |2017-12-03T02:44:24-08:00October 11, 2014|Equality|0 Comments

Why CMOs won’t lock CIOs out of the C-suite

Published in the Economist today Money talks. It's common knowledge that people with money tend to get what they want, and today’s business dynamics are no different. A new Accenture study shows that CMOs are claiming more of the tech budget share. Much to the chagrin of CIOs, it is coming out of the IT purse. Regardless of how much injustice CIOs feel, the success of their companies is increasingly reliant on their teams learning to align with CMO teams whose priorities—and very nature—are incredibly different from their own. CIOs [...]

By |2017-12-06T09:50:46-08:00January 8, 2014|Leadership|0 Comments

The Biggest Little Industry You’ve Never Heard of Turns Fifty

Posted on the HuffingtonPost earlier Chips touch every aspect of our lives. You use chips in your car, in your phone, in your TV, in your fridge, when you play a video game, when you text, Skype or blog, in the bar code reader at the grocery checkout, when you take a photo, as your luggage is routed through an airport -- any time you use electronics today you are using chips. Now I am not talking about potato chips, I'm talking about semiconductors -- integrated circuits. Those small, intricate [...]

By |2017-12-06T09:51:40-08:00October 16, 2013|My Personal Journey|0 Comments

PR over exposure is a dangerous game

Eric Jackson wrote a painful piece in Forbes this morning comparing Sheryl Sandberg to Kim Polese - and while I don't agree with his judgement that they are alike (one is wildly successful, one less so) he throws a bright light on one of the risks that can plague female tech executives: over exposure. The over exposure starts because when you are a fresh new female executive you are rare and a novelty. The press wants to cover you because your opinions are new grist for the mill on everything [...]

By |2017-12-06T16:57:44-08:00May 24, 2012|Leadership|0 Comments
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