Women CEOs in the US: Performance & Impact
Thursday, August 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Pacific)
You may have heard about or read the research reports that document the outperformance of companies with more women in leadership and balanced boards, but did you know that the actual performance is tracked and available on a daily basis now?
The Hypatia Women CEO Index is a unique financial instrument that measures the performance of American public companies with female CEOs, with data from 2018, effectively delivering the Female Factor. In January of 2023, Hypatia Capital launched the WCEO ETF, the only pure play investment vehicle available in the US public markets to invest in companies run by women CEOs.
Hypatia’s investment thesis is that women CEOs will outperform. Their data shows that women CEOs transform the talent pipeline through more balanced leadership teams.
This fact-filled, inspirational presentation will cover:
- Who are the women CEOs in US public companies?
- How do they perform?
- How do they lead?
- What is the impact?
IWF NorCal member Julie Castro Abrams will host this session and interview IWF Peru member Patricia Lizarraga, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hypatia Capital. We are grateful to IWF NorCal member Kathryn Johnson for bringing this program to our membership.
Date: Thursday, August 28th
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Pacific)
Location: via Zoom
Cost: Free for IWF members and their guests, but registration is required to participate (Zoom link and details will be included in the registration confirmation e-mail.)
Speaker Bios:
Patricia Lizarraga is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hypatia Capital, an asset manager focused on investing in women, and the portfolio manager of the WCEO ETF. She has been investing in women since 2007, and has over 30 years of Wall Street experience.
Patricia is an independent board member and Audit Committee Chair of Credicorp, Ltd. (NYSE: BAP) and Banco de Credito del Peru, the largest financial conglomerate and bank respectively, in Peru, and SEC financial expert.
She is a member of the Lima chapter of IWF, and trustee of the Museum of Art of Lima. She has an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and an Economics degree from Yale University.
Julie Castro Abrams is the Founder and General Partner of How Women Invest, the nation’s only venture fund exclusively investing in the top 1% of companies founded by women. With over 25 years in financial services and supporting small business owners, she has supported more than 6,000 women entrepreneurs. As CEO of How Women Lead, Julie played a pivotal role in the passage of California’s SB 826, mandating the inclusion of women on corporate boards. Her work sits at the intersection of impact investing and gender equity, with a mission to demystify venture capital and ensure more women fund and scale women-founded companies. Julie is a member of IWF Northern California.
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