Julie Sweet

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Person.png Julie Sweet  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(businesswoman)
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BornJulie Spellman
1966
NationalityUS
Alma materClaremont McKenna College, Columbia Law School
SpouseChad Creighton Sweet
Member ofBusiness 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

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/201422 January 201425 January 2014Switzerland2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/201620 January 201623 January 2016SwitzerlandAttended 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/201717 January 201720 January 2017World 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/201922 January 201925 January 2019World Economic Forum
Switzerland
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World 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/202222 May 202226 May 2022Switzerland1912 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/202316 January 202320 January 2023World Economic Forum
Switzerland		The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"
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References

  1. ↑ a b https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/fashion/weddings/julie-spellman-and-chad-sweet.html
  2. ↑ a b c d https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/business/julie-sweet-accenture-corner-office.html
  3. ↑ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/julie-sweet
  4. ↑ a b https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2019/09/microsoft-boeing-execs-land-on-fortune-list-of.html
  5. ↑ https://www.weforum.org/press/2021/02/world-economic-forum-appoints-new-member-to-board-of-trustees-4c1068e22b/
  6. ↑ The David Rubinstein Show, “Julie Sweet, Accenture Chair & CEO”, S6:E28, 6 October 2021, Bloomberg TV, after 11 minutes 30 seconds.
  7. ↑ https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/07/12/accenture-taps-arlington-based-julie-sweet-as.html
  8. ↑ a b c d e https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/business/julie-sweet-accenture-ceo.html
  9. ↑ https://www.law360.com/articles/1177615/accenture-taps-ex-cravath-partner-as-new-ceo
  10. ↑ https://www.businessinsider.com/accenture-julie-sweet-switch-careers-2019-1
  11. ↑ a b c https://www.theceomagazine.com/business/articles/julie-sweet-first-female-ceo-accenture/
  12. ↑ https://www.consulting.us/news/2552/accenture-appoints-julie-sweet-as-chief-executive-officer
  13. ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/accenture-chooses-new-chief-executive-11562876160
  14. ↑ https://www.nasdaq.com/article/accenture-names-julie-sweet-as-ceo-20190711-00978
  15. ↑ a b c d https://www.ft.com/content/c87616c4-a3fc-11e9-a282-2df48f366f7d
  16. ↑ https://fortune.com/2019/01/08/accenture-ceo-julie-sweet-ceo-initiative/
  17. ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/06/25/t-mobile-google-fedex-intuit-among-best-encouraging-diversity/1509253001/
  18. ↑ https://fortune.com/2019/07/11/accenture-new-ceo-julie-sweet/
  19. ↑ https://www.workingmother.com/julie-sweet
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