Honest Tea vets join executive staff at Q Drinks

Women, gender issues play a bigger role in Davos | Wal-Mart CIO Karenann Terrell to depart | Honest Tea vets join executive staff at Q Drinks Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version] January 17, 2017 CONNECT WITH NEW  [LinkedIn] [Facebook] [Twitter]   [NEW SmartBrief] [NEW SmartBrief] Women's leadership news for retail and consumer goods [SIGN UP] ⋅ [FORWARD] Top of the week [Women, gender issues play a bigger role in Davos] About 21% of the 3,000 participants in the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, will be women. That's up from 18% in 2016, and a number of panels planned for the week will focus on gender issues. [CNBC] (1/16) [LinkedIn] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Google+] [Email] Women's leadership [Wal-Mart CIO Karenann Terrell to depart] [Wal-Mart CIO to depart, retailer reportedly cutting jobs] (Robyn Beck/Getty Images) Wal-Mart's Chief Information Officer Karenann Terrell will step down from the position next month after filling the role since 2012, the company said. [The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model)] (1/10) [LinkedIn] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Google+] [Email] [Honest Tea vets join executive staff at Q Drinks] Mixer brand Q Drinks is gaining the expertise of two veteran executives from Coca-Cola's Honest Tea in its recent recruitment of Melanie Knitzer and Becca Ray. Knitzer will serve as the executive vice president of retail sales, and Ray will be the director of retail sales-West for the company, which secured $11 million in funding last year. [BevNet.com] (1/10) [LinkedIn] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Google+] [Email] [Women make their mark on retail tech] PetSmart's Beth McCormick, Wal-Mart's Kristen Williams and Walgreen's Deepika Pandey are among the leading women in retail technology, according to a report from Chain Store Age. "We are on the pulse of real, tangible, positive change," said Sarah Gelbman, Oracle's global technology sales manager. 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Of the entrepreneurs supported by Precursor's first fund, 31% have at least one female founder, and 16% have at least one black founder. [USA Today] (1/11) [LinkedIn] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Google+] [Email] [Gov. Cuomo fights gender, minority wage gap] New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued executive orders that will prohibit employers from asking potential hires about salary history and will require state contractors to report on the gender, ethnicity and race of all employees. The measures are designed to close the gender and minority wage gap in New York, which sees women on average earning 87 cents to every dollar earned by men, with women of color earning as low as 58 cents on the dollar. 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