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Case IH, New Holland, and CASE CE (all CNH brands), took the stage at Expoagro 2024 YPF, the mega-exhibition from March 5 to 8 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Known as ‘The National Capital of Agribusiness,’ Expoagro is one of the largest agro-industrial exhibitions in Latin America. Renowned companies in the sector show off their products, services and the latest in technology and connectivity. It is also a stage to explore new business opportunities, establish strategic alliances and contribute to the development and sustainable growth of the productive sector.

Case IH highlights included the Axial-Flow Series 150 and 250 combines, the Puma line of tractors, and the Patriot 300.

The Patriot 300 featured with a new NEF 6 engine manufactured in Argentina, which provides more power than the previous version, and a new hydraulic system. The equipment, designed for the Argentinian market, guarantees greater reliability, robustness, better behavior on uneven terrain, maintaining constant speed and high durability.

“The tests we carried out during 2023 with few units gave very positive results. Accompanying the demands of Argentine producers for greater technology and high performance, we continue to invest and bet on national production, so the model will be definitively manufactured at our plant in Ferreyra, Córdoba,” said Rodrigo Lanciotti, Marketing Manager.

New Holland showcased similar strengths in iron in displaying low, medium and high power tractors, the CR 7.90 Intellisense combine harvester and the Defensor SP3000 sprayer of national production.

With a focus on tech, New Holland also featured key highlights in the Digital Agriculture space, with the Intelligence Center, a support that allows New Holland’s specialized personnel to assist through digital tools both from the industrial plant and a dealership.

In addition, the Oculus and the augmented reality headset, offered real-time remote attention services to customers. The brand also presented products from Raven (a brand of CNH), a leader in automated aftermarket precision agriculture technology solutions, which will soon be available in Argentina.

“We are very happy to participate again in Expoagro, one of the most important fairs in our country. We invite all visitors to stop by our booth and discover the latest developments in technology and automation that we offer, as well as our various financing options for our products,” said Tomás Liceda, Commercial Director of New Holland Argentina.

Another novelty of the brand was the immersive 360° experience with which the Argentinian countryside was shown. The initiative aimed to raise awareness of the work behind the food produced by each farmer throughout the country.

Visitors to Expoagro also had the support of CNH Capital to choose the best financing conditions when acquiring New Holland machinery. With many years dedicated to the financing of Agriculture in Latin America, the institution will offer all its expertise to Argentine producers.

CASE, a CNH construction brand, was proud to take a stage beside its agricultural counterparts. Sharing a stand with Case IH, CASE highlighted the 580N and 570ST backhoe loader model, and the SR175B skid steer loader, the equipment most chosen by customers for tasks in construction and in the field.

“Since the 90’s we have participated in important fairs with the magnitude of Expoagro. This is a new opportunity to attract customers and be close to producers, who often use our machines for tasks related to the field. Today, thanks to the versatility and adaptability of our machines, we are also present in other activities such as mining and regional economies in the interior,” explained Mario Rizzi, CASE’s commercial manager for Latin America.

During the fair, the official distributors in the region, Grumaq and Álvarez Rental, offered personalized advice regarding the benefits, performance and operability of the equipment.

Visitors to Expoagro also had the support of CNH Capital to choose the best financing conditions when acquiring machinery. With many years dedicated to the financing of Agriculture in Latin America, the institution offered all its expertise to Argentinian producers.

Case IH, New Holland, and CASE’s presence at this year’s Expoagro is a testament to CNH’s commitment to sustainable products and innovation for a brighter future for farmers and construction workers in Argentina, and around the globe.

Schneider Electric

In Germany, where I live, there is a greater sense of fear when it comes to what the future holds. The industrious country continues to narrowly dodge a recession. The effects of the economic decline during the pandemic year of 2020 and the slowed production in the energy supply sector, given Europe’s past dependence on Russia for natural gas, have been felt here and in other parts of the world.

So, where energy comes from – how we generate it – is a very hot topic.

There also is this realization: if we want to ensure Germany and other countries remain industrious, then digitalization and optimizing automation processes are key.

Over the decades, the combination of efficient, software-centric automation and digitalization will result in true sustainability. Even small optimization steps in processes can enable companies to remain flexible – whatever economic shifts may occur.

Optimization and digitalization will empower businesses to make an impact, while remaining financially stable.

Digitalization makes you competitive

Such topics took center stage during the Schneider Electric-sponsored 86th NAMUR General Meeting last November.

For those unfamiliar, NAMUR is a place where process industries can come together for two days to share their pains with vendors and find solutions. It’s a platform where collaboration is possible. End of the day, world progress is done through innovation and engineering. During the annual NAMUR meeting, more than 600 process engineers gathered with the intention of making the world a better place.

There was this consensus that optimization and digitalization can alleviate our energy fears. How are we going to do this? How will companies thrive? Remain competitive?

The answer, resoundingly, was by working together.

Open process automation allows companies to be multi-vendor. In turn, multi-vendor approaches, shaped around what you want to achieve – and not vice versa – enable co-innovation. Flexibility. The ability to accel and quickly adapt to market demands for continuous profitability.

It’s a mental shift that takes years, and it begins with thought leaders peppering their organizations with agents of change. I know this is achievable because Schneider Electric has accomplished this very feat.

Beginning in the 2000s with former CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Schneider gradually became a new company that embraced open concepts. People no longer know us as the company selling a push button or a tiny piece of hardware. We represent a software-centric ideal across standardized platforms. By mobilizing our ecosystem for a more climate positive world, we estimate our solutions will have saved and avoided 100 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year by 2025. Another example of our role as impact makers is our new Schneider Electric building in France which is 100% electric and energy autonomous.

We can no longer be afraid of technology and instead focus on building an ecosystem.

And speaking strictly to vendors, there’s money to be made with normalized, interfacing parts and pieces. Companies are tired of being locked into a single vendor. It hinders progress. Through open comes swifter and more profitable optimization.

At the very heart of this optimization is one key factor: data.

Data is the core to progress

Data is everywhere. The question is: Are we able to quickly capture and process it for intelligent decision-making?

Technologies like AVEVA create a pathway for impactful analysis of data, from the shop floor to the top-level business analysts sitting in the CEO’s office. Getting relevant data, whether it be through a distributed control system architecture like EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS or remote operations through something like SCADAPack, leads to informed decisions. Digitalization allows innovation to thrive.

By decoupling hardware and software, the interfaces allow for safe and secure connectivity.

The big picture is that this builds an ecosystem of connectivity.

True circularity of plastics

OECD’s Global Plastic Outlook predicts that, due to economic growth, plastic use will triple between 2019 and 2060, going from 460 million tons to 1.3 billion tons per year. Schneider Electric currently uses 100 kilotons of plastic every year to produce our products. So, our goal is to replace 30% of the plastic with recycled or biowaste material by the end of 2025.

This is a worldwide trend. Companies are now on the hunt for plastic waste. This type of circularity is achievable, but it requires optimization and digitalization.

There are plastic-sorting facilities today that haven’t changed in the past 40 years. This makes it difficult to provide quality sorting that chemical companies would need today to make circularity possible. Fortunately, there are people working on the digitalization of circularity, specifically in the recycling industry.

Schneider is collaborating with companies to drive support for sorting facilities, logistics, and chemical companies to have a safe data exchange, and then build that into the greater supply chain.

Companies see the monetary benefit in circularity. I’m optimistic because support for this will be one of the key indicators if we’ll see an upturn in the German economy.

During one conference, BASF mentioned it secured plastic waste for the next six years. This puts pressure on the sorting facilities and logistics. Just like the cement industry, we’re moving towards a plastics industry that lives off the waste produced by humans.

Join us at ACHEMA

I invite you all to join us at the ACHEMA June 10-14 in Frankfurt. Many of these significant advances towards a climate positive world will be on display. These technologies and efficiencies can save businesses hundreds of millions of dollars. Partnerships with Schneider’s experts make this possible across all process industries – and that journey can be tackled in bite-size chunks.

In the next few years, monetization will not be enough to be competitive. Given the net zero climate requirements set by nations, industrial global trends are moving towards sustainability. In the future, sustainability is what will keep you in the loop. And at ACHEMA, I’ll be happy to discuss how we can enable it.

Earlier this month, Delmarva Power presented a donation of $2,605 to the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center and Research Institute, located within Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware. This contribution was made possible through the dedication of our field employees from our New Castle Regional Office. Our employees organized a fundraising event to support a colleague’s family member who was recently diagnosed with cancer.

We had the honor of meeting with, and presenting the donation to, Dr. Nicholas J. Petrelli, the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center’s medical director. We look forward to continue our support with them in the future. This donation exemplifies our ongoing commitment to giving back and supporting organizations in the communities we serve.

March 14, 2024 /3BL/ – Today Bath & Body Works announces its inclusion on Forbes’ list of Customer Experience All Stars.

In partnership with the data analysis company HundredX, Forbes surveyed 175,000 U.S.-based consumers who rated 3,100 brands on products, services and treatment of customers. The top 300 overall scores made the list. Bath & Body Works ranked 35th overall and #1 in their category. Many respondents shared their own customer experiences, offering a first-person sense of why certain brands rose to the top. The one commonality among all companies on the list was intense customer devotion.

“Every day, we relentlessly focus on offering an exceptional experience that builds a deeper relationship with our customers,” says Maurice Cooper, Chief Customer Officer for Bath & Body Works. “Care for our customers is at the heart of everything we do. From the highest quality craftmanship in our packaging and beloved fragrances, to engaging storytelling and seamless shopping experiences, to brand defining service in stores and online, we work to strengthen emotional connection to our brand, and increase the value it delivers to all who we reach.”

Bath & Body Works is a global leader in fragrance with the brand’s products currently in approximately 40% of U.S. households, and many more around the world. They continue to build on their winning track record by meeting customer demand for head-to-toe fragrance and expanding into new categories including Men’s, haircare, laundry and lip care.

A key feature of Bath & Body Works deep customer connection is their award-winning loyalty program, My Bath & Body Works Rewards. It now boasts over 37 active members and offers points to redeem for free products, exclusive access to special events and collections, and birthday gifts to surprise and delight their customers.

In addition to making Forbes’ list of Customer Experience All-Stars, Bath & Body Works recently has been recognized in several other ways including:

America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women by NewsweekBest Managed Companies by the Wall Street JournalAmerica’s Most Responsible Companies by NewsweekAmerica’s Greatest Workplaces for Veterans by NewsweekAmerica’s Greenest Companies by NewsweekWorld’s Most Trustworthy Companies by NewsweekAmerica’s Greatest Workplaces by NewsweekAmerica’s Best Workplaces for Women by ForbesAmerica’s Greatest Workplaces for LGBTQ+ individuals by NewsweekMost Trustworthy Companies in America by NewsweekDiversity in Business Award by Columbus Business FirstForbes List of America’s Best Large EmployersForbes List of America’s Best Employers for WomenA Diversity First Top 50 Company by the Diversity Research Institute

For more information about Bath & Body Works, visit bbwinc.com.

ABOUT BATH & BODY WORKS

Home of America’s Favorite Fragrances®, Bath & Body Works is a global leader in personal care and home fragrance, including top-selling collections for fine fragrance mist, body lotion and body cream, 3-wick candles, home fragrance diffusers and liquid hand soap. Powered by agility and innovation, the company’s predominantly U.S.-based supply chain enables the company to deliver quality, on-trend luxuries at affordable prices. Bath & Body Works serves and delights customers however and wherever they want to shop, from welcoming, in-store experiences at more than 1,850 company-operated Bath & Body Works locations in the U.S. and Canada and more than 480 international franchised locations to an online storefront at BathandBodyWorks.com.

March 14, 2024 /3BL/ – Today Bath & Body Works announces its inclusion on Forbes’ list of Customer Experience All Stars.

In partnership with the data analysis company HundredX, Forbes surveyed 175,000 U.S.-based consumers who rated 3,100 brands on products, services and treatment of customers. The top 300 overall scores made the list. Bath & Body Works ranked 35th overall and #1 in their category. Many respondents shared their own customer experiences, offering a first-person sense of why certain brands rose to the top. The one commonality among all companies on the list was intense customer devotion.

“Every day, we relentlessly focus on offering an exceptional experience that builds a deeper relationship with our customers,” says Maurice Cooper, Chief Customer Officer for Bath & Body Works. “Care for our customers is at the heart of everything we do. From the highest quality craftmanship in our packaging and beloved fragrances, to engaging storytelling and seamless shopping experiences, to brand defining service in stores and online, we work to strengthen emotional connection to our brand, and increase the value it delivers to all who we reach.”

Bath & Body Works is a global leader in fragrance with the brand’s products currently in approximately 40% of U.S. households, and many more around the world. They continue to build on their winning track record by meeting customer demand for head-to-toe fragrance and expanding into new categories including Men’s, haircare, laundry and lip care.

A key feature of Bath & Body Works deep customer connection is their award-winning loyalty program, My Bath & Body Works Rewards. It now boasts over 37 active members and offers points to redeem for free products, exclusive access to special events and collections, and birthday gifts to surprise and delight their customers.

In addition to making Forbes’ list of Customer Experience All-Stars, Bath & Body Works recently has been recognized in several other ways including:

America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women by NewsweekBest Managed Companies by the Wall Street JournalAmerica’s Most Responsible Companies by NewsweekAmerica’s Greatest Workplaces for Veterans by NewsweekAmerica’s Greenest Companies by NewsweekWorld’s Most Trustworthy Companies by NewsweekAmerica’s Greatest Workplaces by NewsweekAmerica’s Best Workplaces for Women by ForbesAmerica’s Greatest Workplaces for LGBTQ+ individuals by NewsweekMost Trustworthy Companies in America by NewsweekDiversity in Business Award by Columbus Business FirstForbes List of America’s Best Large EmployersForbes List of America’s Best Employers for WomenA Diversity First Top 50 Company by the Diversity Research Institute

For more information about Bath & Body Works, visit bbwinc.com.

ABOUT BATH & BODY WORKS

Home of America’s Favorite Fragrances®, Bath & Body Works is a global leader in personal care and home fragrance, including top-selling collections for fine fragrance mist, body lotion and body cream, 3-wick candles, home fragrance diffusers and liquid hand soap. Powered by agility and innovation, the company’s predominantly U.S.-based supply chain enables the company to deliver quality, on-trend luxuries at affordable prices. Bath & Body Works serves and delights customers however and wherever they want to shop, from welcoming, in-store experiences at more than 1,850 company-operated Bath & Body Works locations in the U.S. and Canada and more than 480 international franchised locations to an online storefront at BathandBodyWorks.com.

Atlantic City Electric has partnered with Gateway Community Action Partnership, the Borough of Paulsboro, and KABOOM! to construct a new playground for West Buck Street Park in Paulsboro, New Jersey. The project kicked off in January with Design Day, where local students and community members were given a blank canvas to create the playground of their dreams.

Gateway Community Action Partnership has been actively working in the Paulsboro community for almost 35 years. “The beauty of this KABOOM! project is that it is in the neighborhood we are working to revitalize, and we think it is a focal point. It is a jumpstart to a larger revitalization effort,” said Edward Bethea, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Gateway Community Action Partnership.

The excitement was high as students took crayons to paper to illustrate their dream playground. “Design Day is all about the community and local children having an opportunity to not only envision the ultimate play space, but play an active role in bringing that vision to life,” explained Kristin McEvoy, Director of External Affairs at Atlantic City Electric. “We encourage children to show us what they want to see in a playground in their community, and then we send it off to the builders, who will soon turn the children’s imagination into reality.”

The students came up with unique ideas, featuring slides, turtles, and lava pits, and the team at KABOOM! merged their designs to create an exciting outdoor play area. On April 10, Atlantic City Electric employees and the local community will join forces to build the playground.

Atlantic City Electric

Atlantic City Electric is a unit of Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC), a Fortune 250 company and the nation’s largest utility company, serving more than 10 million customers. Atlantic City Electric provides safe and reliable energy service to approximately 572,000 customers in southern New Jersey.

To learn more about Atlantic City Electric, visit The Source, Atlantic City Electric’s online newsroom. Find additional information by visiting atlanticcityelectric.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/AtlanticCityElectric, and on X, formerly known as Twitter, at twitter.com/AcEleCconnect. Atlantic City Electric’s mobile app is available at atlanticcityelectric.com/MobileApp.

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Atlantic City Electric has partnered with Gateway Community Action Partnership, the Borough of Paulsboro, and KABOOM! to construct a new playground for West Buck Street Park in Paulsboro, New Jersey. The project kicked off in January with Design Day, where local students and community members were given a blank canvas to create the playground of their dreams.

Gateway Community Action Partnership has been actively working in the Paulsboro community for almost 35 years. “The beauty of this KABOOM! project is that it is in the neighborhood we are working to revitalize, and we think it is a focal point. It is a jumpstart to a larger revitalization effort,” said Edward Bethea, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Gateway Community Action Partnership.

The excitement was high as students took crayons to paper to illustrate their dream playground. “Design Day is all about the community and local children having an opportunity to not only envision the ultimate play space, but play an active role in bringing that vision to life,” explained Kristin McEvoy, Director of External Affairs at Atlantic City Electric. “We encourage children to show us what they want to see in a playground in their community, and then we send it off to the builders, who will soon turn the children’s imagination into reality.”

The students came up with unique ideas, featuring slides, turtles, and lava pits, and the team at KABOOM! merged their designs to create an exciting outdoor play area. On April 10, Atlantic City Electric employees and the local community will join forces to build the playground.

Atlantic City Electric

Atlantic City Electric is a unit of Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC), a Fortune 250 company and the nation’s largest utility company, serving more than 10 million customers. Atlantic City Electric provides safe and reliable energy service to approximately 572,000 customers in southern New Jersey.

To learn more about Atlantic City Electric, visit The Source, Atlantic City Electric’s online newsroom. Find additional information by visiting atlanticcityelectric.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/AtlanticCityElectric, and on X, formerly known as Twitter, at twitter.com/AcEleCconnect. Atlantic City Electric’s mobile app is available at atlanticcityelectric.com/MobileApp.

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Last week, AB, in partnership with Columbia Climate School hosted the Biodiversity Training for AB Investors with biodiversity expert Dr. Jenna Lawrence. Second in the training series, this module introduces investors to the risks and opportunities stemming from biodiversity and nature loss and examines how issuers’ impacts and dependencies on nature can affect their businesses.

AllianceBernstein

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets. We believe corporate responsibility, responsible investing and stewardship are intertwined. To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We also believe that strive to hold ourselves as a firm to similar practices that we ask of issues. Our stewardship practices, investment strategy and decision-making are guided by our purpose, mission and values.

Our purpose—pursue insight that unlocks opportunity—inspires our firm to act responsibly. While opportunity means something different to each of our stakeholders; it always means considering the unique goals of each stakeholder. AB’s mission is to help our clients define and achieve their investment goals, explicitly stating what we do to unlock opportunity for our clients. We became a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2011. This began our journey to formalize our commitment to identify responsible ways to unlock opportunities for our clients through integrating material ESG factors throughout most of our actively managed equity and fixed-income client accounts, funds and strategies. AB also engages issuers where it believes the engagement is in the best financial interest of its clients.

Because we are an active manager, our differentiated insights drive our ability to deliver alpha and design innovative investment solutions. ESG and climate issues are important elements in forming insights and in presenting potential risks and opportunities that can have an effect on the performance of the companies and issuers that we invest in and the portfolios that we build.

Our values provide a framework for the behaviors and actions that deliver on our purpose and mission. Values align our actions. Each value emerges from the firm’s collective character—yet is also aspirational.

Invest in One Another means that we have a strong organizational culture where diversity is celebrated and mentorship is critical to our success. When we invest in one another, we empower our employees to reach their potential, so that they can help our clients realize theirs. This enables us to partner with clients to design and deliver improved investment outcomes.Strive for Distinctive Knowledge means that we collaboratively identify creative solutions to clients’ economic, ESG and climate- related investment challenges through our expertise in a wide range of investment disciplines, close collaboration among our investment experts and creative solutions.Speak with Courage and Conviction informs how we engage our AB colleagues and issuers. We seek to learn from other parts of our business to strengthen our own views. And we engage issuers for insight and action by sharing ideas and best practices.Act with Integrity—Always is the bedrock of our relationships and has specific meaning for our business. Unlike many other asset managers, we’re singularly focused on providing asset management and research to our clients. We don’t engage in activities that could be distracting, or create conflicts—such as investment banking, insurance writing, commercial banking or proprietary trading for our own account. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

As of September 30, 2023, AB had $669B in assets under management, $458B of which were ESG-integrated. Additional information about AB may be found on our website, www.alliancebernstein.com.

Learn more about AB’s approach to responsibility here

Last week, AB, in partnership with Columbia Climate School hosted the Biodiversity Training for AB Investors with biodiversity expert Dr. Jenna Lawrence. Second in the training series, this module introduces investors to the risks and opportunities stemming from biodiversity and nature loss and examines how issuers’ impacts and dependencies on nature can affect their businesses.

AllianceBernstein

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets. We believe corporate responsibility, responsible investing and stewardship are intertwined. To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We also believe that strive to hold ourselves as a firm to similar practices that we ask of issues. Our stewardship practices, investment strategy and decision-making are guided by our purpose, mission and values.

Our purpose—pursue insight that unlocks opportunity—inspires our firm to act responsibly. While opportunity means something different to each of our stakeholders; it always means considering the unique goals of each stakeholder. AB’s mission is to help our clients define and achieve their investment goals, explicitly stating what we do to unlock opportunity for our clients. We became a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2011. This began our journey to formalize our commitment to identify responsible ways to unlock opportunities for our clients through integrating material ESG factors throughout most of our actively managed equity and fixed-income client accounts, funds and strategies. AB also engages issuers where it believes the engagement is in the best financial interest of its clients.

Because we are an active manager, our differentiated insights drive our ability to deliver alpha and design innovative investment solutions. ESG and climate issues are important elements in forming insights and in presenting potential risks and opportunities that can have an effect on the performance of the companies and issuers that we invest in and the portfolios that we build.

Our values provide a framework for the behaviors and actions that deliver on our purpose and mission. Values align our actions. Each value emerges from the firm’s collective character—yet is also aspirational.

Invest in One Another means that we have a strong organizational culture where diversity is celebrated and mentorship is critical to our success. When we invest in one another, we empower our employees to reach their potential, so that they can help our clients realize theirs. This enables us to partner with clients to design and deliver improved investment outcomes.Strive for Distinctive Knowledge means that we collaboratively identify creative solutions to clients’ economic, ESG and climate- related investment challenges through our expertise in a wide range of investment disciplines, close collaboration among our investment experts and creative solutions.Speak with Courage and Conviction informs how we engage our AB colleagues and issuers. We seek to learn from other parts of our business to strengthen our own views. And we engage issuers for insight and action by sharing ideas and best practices.Act with Integrity—Always is the bedrock of our relationships and has specific meaning for our business. Unlike many other asset managers, we’re singularly focused on providing asset management and research to our clients. We don’t engage in activities that could be distracting, or create conflicts—such as investment banking, insurance writing, commercial banking or proprietary trading for our own account. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

As of September 30, 2023, AB had $669B in assets under management, $458B of which were ESG-integrated. Additional information about AB may be found on our website, www.alliancebernstein.com.

Learn more about AB’s approach to responsibility here

PITTSBURGH, March 14, 2024 /3BL/ – The Pennsylvania Diversity Council (PADC) announces Genevieve Oduor, Vice President, Business Development and Diversity Relationship Officer of S&T Bank as its 2024 Pittsburgh Women in Leadership Symposium Woman of the Year awardee. Oduor will be recognized at the annual Pittsburgh Women in Leadership Symposium (WILS) on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 taking place from 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. ET at Robert Morris University. The 2024 Women in Leadership Symposium theme, “Leading with Heart: Empathy, Ethics & Excellence” is a call to action for women to elevate their impact and drive positive change while exploring their identity, leadership and contributions in workplaces and communities.

“We are pleased to announce Genevieve Oduor as our 2024 Pittsburgh Woman of the Year Awardee,” said Onjalai Brown, Senior Partnership Development & Event Programmer for the Pennsylvania Diversity Council. “She embodies the values of service, advocacy for women’s equity and leadership. Genevieve’s passion for community service and commitment to providing financial literacy education to schools, minority small business owners and individuals showcases how women can lead with heart, empathy and excellence.”

Oduor holds over 21 years of experience in banking. She currently manages S&T’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and leads the company’s seven affinity groups called employee resource groups. Oduor also leads various DEI initiatives including DEI educational webinars, the S&T equity in education scholarship and the S&T Bank Women & Allies in Banking Conference.

In addition to her DEI work at S&T Bank, Oduor participates in the Brice Mentorship Program. She mentors future leaders and employees looking to advance their careers within S&T. She is also a mentor in partnership with Nazareth Prep School, guiding high school students into careers in banking.

In 2019, Oduor received the Pennsylvania Banker’s Association’s Champion for Women Award, as well as the Humanitarian Leader Award from the Unleashing Potential (UP) S&T Bank Leadership Program. In 2022, she received the 2022 Pittsburgh Business Times Women of Influence Award.

“The Women in Leadership Symposium highlights the legacy of excellence and advocacy for women’s equity in workplaces and communities,” said Anika Rahman, CEO of the National Diversity Council. “We invite you to join us for the Pittsburgh Women in Leadership Symposium as we lead with heart!”

The conference will feature moderator Mona Dine, Head of Talent Management & Corporate Human Resources & Chief Diversity Officer, United States Steel Corporation and panelists, Melinda Black, Regional Vice President, Ulta Beauty; Lisa Hernandez, Vice President of People and Culture, Robert Morris University; Chatón T. Turner, Esq., Senior Associate Counsel and Vice President Risk Management/Disabilities Services, UPMC; Madelyn Toliver, VP, D&I, PNC Bank; and Tanya Vokes, CEO, Dress for Success Pittsburgh.

Event sponsors include Robert Morris University, S&T Bank, and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). To learn more information about the event visit

https://ndc-wilsymposium.org/locations/2024-symposiums/2024-pittsburgh/ please contact Onjalai Brown at onjalai.brown@nationaldiversitycouncil.org.

About the National Diversity Council

The National Diversity Council (NDC) is a 501 (c) (3) organization dedicated to being both a resource and an advocate for the value of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB). Through our nationwide affiliates, events and learning and consulting, the NDC helps organizations create pathways that develop a more inclusive workplace, community and environment. For more information about the National Diversity Council, please visit www.nationaldiversitycouncil.org.

About the Pennsylvania Diversity Council 

The Pennsylvania Diversity Council (PADC), a state affiliate of the National Diversity Council, is committed to fostering diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Through various events and programs, the PADC serves as a resource for DEIB best practices and leadership development in the Pennsylvania region. For more information about the Pennsylvania Diversity Council, please visit https://padiversitycouncil.org/.

Media Contact:

Katrina Glenn

Interim Director of Communications

National Diversity Council

katrina.glenn@nationaldiversitycouncil.org

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