A solid data strategy has become central to all functions of business, but making data quality a high priority comes with a set of challenges many companies are not equipped to handle on their own. Through his work assisting business in organizing and streamlining data processes, Daniel Hernandez (pictured), vice president of offering management at ...

The Northern Trust Corp. has found regulations mandated by Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulations to be valuable guidelines in the company’s efforts to ensure clean, quality data, despite the law’s potential as a limiting factor. “We are treating GDPR as a foundation to our data governance program,” said Sanjay Saxena (pictured), senior vice president of enterprise data governance at Northern ...

The victory of becoming the first Mexican woman to earn her Ph.D. in physics at Stanford University was hard-won for Dr. Deborah Berebichez (pictured), who’s faced objection to her desire to work in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, since childhood. “I was told from a very young age that physics was for geniuses and that I ...

At Workday Inc., a financial management and human capital management software vendor, each team has a common goal — to ensure 95 percent customer satisfaction across its financial management, human capital management and analytical applications services. Erin Yang (pictured), vice president of technology, product management, at Workday, has led efforts in streamlining security and integration ...

When Morgan Berman (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of MilkCrate LLC, began conceptualizing a company designed to promote sustainability and thoughtful action four years ago, she had no idea her ideation would be catapulted from school project to startup by the Forbes Under 30 Summit. Her accelerated journey into the world of B Corps ...

Equality work is a top priority at camera company Snap Inc., especially for the company’s manager of global diversity initiatives Jarvis Sam (pictured). Sam’s diversity and inclusion efforts extend to Snap’s 3,000 employees working around the world. These initiatives begin well before the hiring process by cultivating talent and interest at the educational level. Sam ...

A few years into its acquisition of financial planning company LearnVest Inc., The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. is seeing positive results from the merger of its financial services products with the startup’s streamlined digital experience. Emilia Sherifova (pictured), vice president of architecture and engineering at Northwestern Mutual, works to integrate both the technological and human ...

Now an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the start of Dr. Aysegul Gunduz’s (pictured) professional journey was encouraged by a female mentor, an experience that inspired her to join the Association for Academic Women at the University of Florida. Today she leads the group as its ...

For years Ilit Raz, co-founder and chief executive officer of Joonko Diversity Inc., worked in tech without a single female contemporary. When she joined a group for women in product management almost three years ago, she was inspired to create something that would improve that imbalance she experienced throughout her professional journey. “The biggest barrier for a ...

When Monica Bailey (pictured, right) chief people officer at GoDaddy Operating Company LLC, and Auguste Goldman (pictured, left) senior vice president of customer care, started tracking employee experience by gender at GoDaddy three years ago, they found that company values were not being wholly represented across all levels and teams. After taking a hard look ...