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. Married to CIA operative. | |
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
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
She is married to Chad Creighton Sweet, co-founder of the The Chertoff Group and Chief of Staff of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to becoming Chief of Staff of DHS, Chad worked as an investment banker at the firms of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs as well as served in the CIA's National Clandestine Service.[19][11][20]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- ↑ 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://zpgroup.com/leadership/chad-sweet
- ↑ https://www.workingmother.com/julie-sweet
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