28th Annual YWCA Tribute to Women
Awards Dinner, Thursday, May 10, 2012
Fairmont Hotel, San Jose
Reception 5:30 pm, Dinner and Awards 7:00 – 9:30 pm
The YWCA Silicon Valley is proud to honor executive women at one of the most distinguished events of the year:
- Honoring Top Executive Women
- Benefitting Women in Silicon Valley
- Major fundraiser for the YWCA'supporting all programs and services offered through the YW
- Recognizing companies that promote women's leadership
- Limited to 55 women
- Longest running Women's Recognition event in Silicon Valley
- Blind selection process by former YWCA TWIN Honorees
- Must be early in her career (less than five years in her current profession)
- Show evidence of leadership capabilities
- Demonstrate a pattern of leadership progression
- Takes steps to engage others in her profession
- Contributes to the success of her organization
- May submit several nominations, but only 1 will be selected per organization
- Limited to 5 women
Over the past 28 years, we have honored women executives from companies such as Adobe Systems, Applied Materials, Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, IBM Corporation, Cisco Systems, Xilinx and Oracle, as well as a cross-section of outstanding small and mid-size growth companies from a variety of industries such as government, legal, financial services, venture capital, bio technology and clean technology.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the YWCA's Events Manager, LaDonna Curteman, at events@ywca-sv.org or (408)295-4011 x216.
Sarah Mosso
Chair, YWCA TWIN Awards Committee
Manager, Site Operations, IBM
YWCA TWIN Honoree, 2004
2012 TWIN Awards Sponsor
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