On 14th June the winners of our Woman of the Year Awards 2023 were announced live and were celebrated at our up and coming Singapore, London and New York Forums.
Kemi Bolarin is Head of Treasury – Europe, at GXO Logistics, Inc., and Treasury Today’s 2023 Woman of the Year EMEA overall winner. Based in London, Kemi has led Europe treasury for the US headquartered global contract logistics company that manages outsourced logistics and warehousing since July 2021.
Brigitta Kocherhans joined Siemens Healthineers as Head of Treasury in 2015, when the treasury team comprised just four employees. Under her leadership, that number has grown to more than 100, split equally between men and women on a global level. It has taken time to achieve that level of diversity, however – in 2017, just 17% of the team were female.
The overall winner of this year’s Woman of the Year APAC award is Rania Ali Alkatiri, Head of Treasury at Indonesian technology giant GoTo Group. When she was born in Saudi Arabia, Rania’s career prospects were limited to becoming a housewife, nurse or teacher – and even when her family moved to Malaysia, there was little expectation that Rania’s generation of young, Muslim women would be able to pursue a professional career in industry. Today, however, Rania holds a highly influential role at the holding company of Indonesia’s largest digital ecosystem, which contributes around 2% of the country’s GDP.
The Highly Commended Winner of this year’s Woman of the Year APAC award is Michelle Ang, Group Treasurer at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation – a passionate business leader with a track record of leading high-performance international teams.
The well-deserved Overall Winner of the Woman of the Year the Americas 2023 award is Sheila Quintus, Vice President & Assistant Treasurer at Medtronic. Sheila gained a B.S. in Accounting from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, and an M.B.A. in Finance from Lehigh University. She began her professional career in the audit practice of PwC, after which she spent over ten years working for Merck & Co., Inc. holding positions within technical accounting, manufacturing and joint venture finance, R&D finance and strategic portfolio management, and treasury.
Andrea Amozurrutia Casillas is Finance and Sustainability Director at Grupo Herdez and Treasury Today’s 2023 Highly Commended Winner of the Woman of the Year – The Americas. During her time at Grupo Herdez, Andrea’s influential voice and strategic thinking have played a key role in the company’s approach to gender equality and sustainability. Alongside the day-to-day responsibilities of her role, she is a trusted advisor to the company’s CEO on gender equality matters and is also spokeswoman for the company. Before starting at Grupo Herdez in 2010, Andrea was an Investor Relations Manager at Grupo Bimbo.
