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At Nasdaq, our purpose is to champion economic progress for all. In honor of Women’s History Month, we are celebrating the stories of pioneers and trailblazers working in business and tech who are a part of Nasdaq and beyond.
Read about the pioneering women of tech and business.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, is recognized as the world’s first computer programmer. In 1842, she wrote the first-ever algorithm for processing numbers on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer or analytical engine. The computer language ADA was named after her. Every second Tuesday in October is known as Ada Lovelace Day to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM careers.
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper worked on UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer in the U.S., and is credited with coining the term "computer bug". Hopper also invented FLOW-MATIC, the first English-like data processing language, which sparked the development of COBOL, which became the Navy's standard operating language.
Radia Perlman is a distinguished inventor, network engineer, software designer, IEEE Fellow and respected author. Radia improved the spanning tree-based Ethernet by also designing TRILL (TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links), which allows the Ethernet to make optimal use of bandwidth. When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of about 50 women out of a class of 1,000.
Mary Kenneth Keller took her vows as a Roman Catholic sister and started work at Dartmouth College in the then male-only computer center in 1958. She was the first U.S. woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science. At Dartmouth, Mary worked on developing the BASIC programming language which helped broaden computer programming into non-math and science fields.
Dorothy Vaughan came to the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1943, during the height of World War II. As the head of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' (NACA) segregated West Area Computing Unit from 1949 until 1958, Vaughan was both a respected mathematician and NASA's first African-American manager.
Wangari Maathai was one of 300 Kenyan students selected in 1960 for the Airlift Africa program. She founded the Green Belt Movement to tackle environmental damage and women's rights by teaching Kenyan women how to plant new trees in deforested areas and sustainably draw income from the land. Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, the first African woman ever to receive the award.
The Women In Tech Sweden conference was held on March 23, 2023 in person and live online. The conference aims to inspire women to create a future in the field of technology and enlighten women already in the industry to stay and succeed within the field by providing the network and experience of successful, interesting and pioneering people from the wonderful world of technology.
The Women In Tech Sweden conference was held on March 23, 2023 in person and live online. The conference aims to inspire women to create a future in the field of technology and enlighten women already in the industry to stay and succeed within the field by providing the network and experience of successful, interesting and pioneering people from the wonderful world of technology.
Empowering women is foundational to creating more inclusive communities. We are proud to be the home of so many pioneering women who are trailblazing the path for future generations.
By supporting and championing each other, we can break down barriers for the next generation of women and other marginalized communities.
Having women on boards means that boards are finally able to perform to their fullest capacities and reach their highest effectiveness by not excluding half of the world’s talent from the room.
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Founder, Black Girl Ventures
Founder and CEO, VC Include
Founder, My Money My Future
Senior Director, Advisory, Client Services, Nasdaq
Corporate Secretary, VP, Deputy General Counsel, Nasdaq
President, AIF Institute; Former Deputy Treasurer, North Carolina Department of State Treasurer
Chief Executive Officer and President, Columbia Investment Management Company
Chief Investment Officer, CommonSpirit Health
Meet the members of Nasdaq's employee resource group WIN (Women In Nasdaq), which brings together over 900 global members to further their mission of engaging, educating and empowering professionals across our organization. Through stories of women paving the way, we learn about their diverse backgrounds, roles and what it means to be an ally of this community.
Leader of the WIN Bangalore chapter & Director of Web Development, Nasdaq
Copenhagen WIN Lead & Sales Director, Nasdaq
WIN Co-Lead and Relationship Manager for West Coast Listings, Nasdaq
WIN Advisor & VP, Global Reporting and Accounting Policy, Nasdaq
Senior Account Manager, IR Intelligence, Nasdaq
I feel so proud of our internal DEC groups, our public statements on topics like racial injustice and our push to try to get more women into the tech industry, as well as our work on supporting more diverse boards.
What I most admire about the younger generations is that they are looking for educational content around financial wellness that doesn’t just resonate with them but propels them into action.
Women's needs are growing, and they are unique, and it is interesting to see if the wealth management industry will make more meaningful shifts around female advisors.
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As Nasdaq's Senior Vice President for the Anti-Financial Crime Technology division, she has been able to keep her mission at the center of her work: protect the world against financial crime to drive integrity within all markets.
Clementina Torres, Chief Operational Officer of Depósito Central de Valores (DCV), has been involved in the central securities depository space for over a decade. Clementina shares about how technology has positively influenced her work at DCV.
Working at Verafin for over a decade has given Hazel Dalton vast experience across a variety of responsibilities and projects. As the current Vice President of Cloud Platform at Verafin, she shares about how technology has influenced her role.
Using data science and artificial intelligence, Anita Panchmatia, Managing Director, is helping build a smarter electronic trading platform across the global equity business, as well as fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC).
As Managing Director of Nasdaq's Marketplace Technology business in Southeast Asia Pacific, Virginie Barbot has spent her career embracing challenges and having a solution-oriented mind.
As the Head of Corporate Development at Bitstamp, Eva Gartner sat down with us to answer questions about her role, the challenges she has experienced in her career and her advice to people interested in getting involved in the cryptocurrency and technology space.
As Senior Expert of Technology and Support Office at the Polish Power Exchange (TGE), Kinga Jędrusik supervises everything from trading systems and supporting applications to testing software.
Our 12 employee networks enable connection with the goal of supporting diversity, equity and inclusion. WIN champions women's history and culture.
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