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Forum Members

Eduardo Belmont
Belcorp

Lloyd Blankfein
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Henryka Bochniarz
Boeing

Frank J. Brown
INSEAD

Kevin M. Campbell
Accenture

John T. Chambers
Cisco

Kristin Clemet
Norfund

Rick Goings
Tupperware Brands Corporation

Kevin L. Kelly
Heidrick & Struggles

Sung-joo Kim
Sungjoo Group (Korea) and MCM Group (Germany)

Yang Lan
Sun Media Investment Holdings LTD

Wendy Luhabe
Women Private Equity Fund

Dennis Nally
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Marilyn Carlson Nelson
Carlson

Hüsnü M. Özyeǧin
Hüsnü M. Özyeǧin Foundation

Rex W. Tillerson
ExxonMobil

Lynn Taliento
McKinsey & Co.

Elena Viyella de Paliza
Grupo Inter-Quimica, S.A. Monte Rio Power Corp.

Nitin Paranjpe
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)

Mark Parker
Nike

Peter Sands
Standard Chartered PLC

James S. Turley
Ernst & Young

Mona Zulficar
Shalakany Law Office

Heidrick & Struggles - Kevin L. Kelly

Kevin L. Kelly

CEO

Company: Heidrick & Struggles
Web: www.heidrick.com
Women's Initiatives: visit site >

 

Member Background | Company Information | Focus on Women's Empowerment

Member Background

Kevin L. Kelly, CEO, stepped into his role in September 2006, after serving as President of Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa. Kevin is committed to gender diversity issues and is a member of the World Economic Forum Skills Gap community that will seek to address issues of inequality in the workplace at its inaugural meeting in 2008.

 

Company Information

Heidrick & Struggles is a global executive search and leadership advisory firm. For over fifty years the company has built deep relationships with talented individuals on behalf of some of the world's most successful companies. Through the strategic acquisition, development and retention of talent, they help their clients build winning leadership teams. Today the firm is represented in 65 countries across Asia, North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and South America. They are a privileged strategic partner of the World Economic Forum.

 

Focus on Women's Empowerment

Heidrick & Struggles currently have a strategic program dedicated to enabling their clients to achieve gender diversity in the C-Suite. Specializing by industry and geography, this multi-faceted approach primarily aims to connect distinctive women leaders, and to talent manage and advise them throughout their careers. Additionally the firm counsels Boards of Directors on the relative strengths and limitations of their composition.

Heidrick & Struggles has sponsored research into women's leadership, including trends on women's participation on corporate boards and the Catalyst Census of Fortune 500 Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners.