Julie Sweet
Julie Sweet (businesswoman) | |
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Born | Julie Spellman 1966 |
Nationality | US |
Alma mater | Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Law School |
Spouse | Chad Creighton Sweet |
Member of | Business Roundtable, Center for Strategic and International Studies, WEF/Board of Trustees |
CEO of Accenture and Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum |
Julie Terese Sweet (née Spellman)[1] is an American business executive. She is chief executive officer of Accenture, a multinational professional services company. She is also a member of the Global Management Committee for Accenture. According to The New York Times, she is "one of the most powerful women in corporate America."[2] She was named to Fortune 's "Most Powerful Women" list from 2016 through 2019.[3][4]
In February 2021, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum.[5]
Early life and education
Sweet grew up in Tustin, California,[2] and was a speech and debate star at Tustin High School.[6] She holds a bachelor's degree from Claremont McKenna College and a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School.[7]
Career
Prior to Sweet's work at Accenture, she was an attorney at law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore.[8][9] She worked at the firm for 17 years and was partner for 10.[10][11] Sweet was the ninth woman ever to make partner at the firm.[8] She worked on financing, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate counsel.[12]
Accenture recruited Sweet as general counsel in 2010.[8] In 2015, she became CEO of Accenture's North America business, the company's largest market.[8] Since early in her career at Accenture, she served on the company's global management committee. Alongside then-CEO Pierre Nanterme, Sweet developed Accenture's mergers and acquisitions strategy.[13]
Accenture named Sweet its CEO effective September 2019, the first woman to hold that position.[14][15] She replaced interim CEO David Rowland.[15]
Sweet has advocated for diversity, inclusion,[8] and workplace gender parity.[15] Sweet supports Accenture's goal to have a staff equally represented by men and women by 2025; as of 2019, 42 percent of Accenture's staff was female.[16] Sweet was named a top CEO for diversity by the website Comparably in 2019.[17] Sweet has called for addressing the skills gap in the U.S. and supported the national apprenticeship movement.[18] She participated in The New York Times 's New Rules Summit.[2]
In addition to her work at Accenture, Sweet served on the boards for Catalyst, a non-profit, and TechNet Executive Council, a network that promotes growth, as of 2019.[15]
The New York Times called Sweet "one of the most powerful women in corporate America" in 2019.[2] Fortune listed her as one of the "Most Powerful Women" in 2016, 2017, 2018,[11] and 2019; in 2019, she ranked No. 9.[4]
Personal life
Sweet is married to Chad Creighton Sweet,[1] who was Republican Ted Cruz's campaign chairman for Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign. She has two daughters.[11][19]
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016 | 20 January 2016 | 23 January 2016 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017 | 17 January 2017 | 20 January 2017 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2022 | 22 May 2022 | 26 May 2022 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 1912 guests in Davos |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
References
- ↑ a b https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/fashion/weddings/julie-spellman-and-chad-sweet.html
- ↑ a b c d https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/business/julie-sweet-accenture-corner-office.html
- ↑ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/julie-sweet
- ↑ a b https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2019/09/microsoft-boeing-execs-land-on-fortune-list-of.html
- ↑ https://www.weforum.org/press/2021/02/world-economic-forum-appoints-new-member-to-board-of-trustees-4c1068e22b/
- ↑ The David Rubinstein Show, “Julie Sweet, Accenture Chair & CEO”, S6:E28, 6 October 2021, Bloomberg TV, after 11 minutes 30 seconds.
- ↑ https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/07/12/accenture-taps-arlington-based-julie-sweet-as.html
- ↑ a b c d e https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/business/julie-sweet-accenture-ceo.html
- ↑ https://www.law360.com/articles/1177615/accenture-taps-ex-cravath-partner-as-new-ceo
- ↑ https://www.businessinsider.com/accenture-julie-sweet-switch-careers-2019-1
- ↑ a b c https://www.theceomagazine.com/business/articles/julie-sweet-first-female-ceo-accenture/
- ↑ https://www.consulting.us/news/2552/accenture-appoints-julie-sweet-as-chief-executive-officer
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/accenture-chooses-new-chief-executive-11562876160
- ↑ https://www.nasdaq.com/article/accenture-names-julie-sweet-as-ceo-20190711-00978
- ↑ a b c d https://www.ft.com/content/c87616c4-a3fc-11e9-a282-2df48f366f7d
- ↑ https://fortune.com/2019/01/08/accenture-ceo-julie-sweet-ceo-initiative/
- ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/06/25/t-mobile-google-fedex-intuit-among-best-encouraging-diversity/1509253001/
- ↑ https://fortune.com/2019/07/11/accenture-new-ceo-julie-sweet/
- ↑ https://www.workingmother.com/julie-sweet
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