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Chief, the most powerful network of senior executive women, today announced the first lineup of speakers for its 2025 ChiefX summit series — featuring respected leaders, entrepreneurs, and advocates who are shaping their industries.

Today, Chief, the most powerful network of senior executive women, announces the second-annual New Era of Leadership Awards, honoring senior executive women who are shaping the future of business. For the second year, Chief is celebrating women executives who define a new era of leadership — embodying innovation, empathy, creativity, purpose, and resilience. Nominations are open today through March 31, 2025. All entries will be judged by a panel of outstanding women executives, and winners will be announced in May.

Chief, the largest community of senior women executives, today announced the appointment of Alison Moore as CEO effective February 3, 2025. As part of this leadership succession plan, Carolyn Childers, Co-Founder and current CEO, and Lindsay Kaplan, Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer, will transition to Chairman of the Board and Kaplan as Board Director, respectively.

Today, Chief, the largest network of senior women executives, announced a new partnership with Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. This collaboration will bring expert insights from Wharton's world-class faculty to Chief's community of accomplished women leaders, enhancing their ability to excel in their respective fields.

Today, Chief, the largest community of senior women executives, introduced a new membership designed to raise the leadership game of its members — with packages tailored to the needs of today’s executive women leaders, new events and experiences that enable members to build even stronger connections across the community, and a concierge service that supports and guides them through every step of their membership.

Today, Chief, the largest network of senior executive women, unveiled the winners of its inaugural The New Era of Leadership Awards, recognizing 50 women leaders and 25 companies redefining traditional leadership models and shaping the future of business. To read more about each winner, visit: https://thenewera.chief.com/.

Chief, the largest network of senior executive women, today published new data in its New Era of Leadership Report, revealing the perspectives of C-Suite executives on investing in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and speaking up on social issues.

Chief, the largest network of senior executive women, today announced an exemplary panel of judges for its first-ever The New Era of Leadership Awards. Made up of Fortune 500 CEOs, industry disruptors, thought leaders, and Chief Members, this panel will select the winning group of senior executive women and companies who are shaping the future of business.

Today, Chief, the largest network of senior executive women, is launching The New Era of Leadership Awards to recognize senior executive women and companies who are shaping the future of business.

Chief, the largest network of senior executive women, in collaboration with Wakefield Research, today published a report on the greatest challenges C-Suite executives expect this year and the skills they believe will help them lead successfully in 2024 and beyond.

Chief, the private membership network created to connect and support women executive leaders, today announced that its award-winning podcast, “The New Rules of Business,” returns for its fourth season. Named Digiday’s “Best Branded Podcast” in 2023, “The New Rules of Business” will have episodes available on all major podcast streaming platforms each Tuesday, beginning today. You can listen to the first episode with Moms First and Girls Who Code Founder, Reshma Saujani, here.

Chief, the private membership network created to connect and support women executive leaders, today announced the appointment of Lisa Lewin to its Board of Directors.

Chief, a powerful community that connects and supports senior executive women, in collaboration with Morning Consult, today announced findings from a survey assessing how networking impacts women leaders’ careers. The survey of 751 women at and above management level in the U.S. reveals that networking not only plays a pivotal role in achieving nearly every career milestone — from securing a board seat to breaking into the C-suite — but also drives broader operational and revenue benefits for their organizations.

Chief, the private membership network created to connect and support executive leaders, announces the appointment of Sujean Lee as Chief Experience Officer (CXO). In this newly created role, Ms. Lee will leverage her deep expertise in omnichannel consumer strategy to lead Chief’s member experience and oversee the curation of services and offerings for its community of 20,000 leaders, effective April 24, 2023.

Chief, the most powerful network of women executives, today introduced Chief Enterprise for businesses looking to invest in their women leaders. Chief is launching Enterprise to meet growing demand from companies that want to progress their gender diversity commitments by engaging, developing, and retaining their women executives.

Chief, the most powerful network of women executives, today announced its expansion to the United Kingdom. Following significant demand from senior women executives in the U.K., this international expansion will strengthen the power and influence of Chief’s community by enabling even more connections, global perspectives, and shared insights across its network of nearly 20,000 members who range from C-level executives to Managing Directors and Vice Presidents.

Chief (chief.com), the private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there, today announced that Coralie Witter has been appointed as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Witter brings more than 20 years of finance experience to the role, including corporate finance, financial planning and analysis, strategy, public equities investing, and investor relations. This is Chief’s first C-suite hire since the company announced its $100 million Series B round at a $1.1 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $140 million.

Chief (chief.com), the private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there, today announced the close of a $100 million Series B investment. The round is led by CapitalG, the independent growth fund of Google parent company Alphabet. Previous investors General Catalyst, GGV Capital, Inspired Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners, and BoxGroup also participated in the round. Laela Sturdy, General Partner at CapitalG, will join Chief’s Board of Directors.

Chief, the private network designed for the most powerful women executives, announced that it will expand nationally. Beginning today, Chief will welcome qualified applicants throughout the U.S. to join its influential executive network. Since launching in New York in 2019, Chief’s membership has grown to over 10,000 senior women leaders in seven cities, with a waitlist of 40,000 executives from across the country.