Ahead of an inaugural tech-diversity conference next week, Angela Smith Jones, Indianapolis’ deputy mayor of economic development, spoke with IBJ about tech jobs and inclusion.
In statehouses across the country and in Congress, drugmaker Alkermes is pushing its own addiction treatment while contributing to misconceptions and stigma about other medications used to treat opioid addiction.
Hoosier millennials take one glance at the latest from the Statehouse and think: Why bother? The Indiana General Assembly’s work product is a result of policy priorities that wouldn’t be out of place on the set of “Happy Days.”
As NCAA committees meet next week to discuss which cities will host championships through 2022, the organization finds itself in the middle of a national discussion on civil rights that will test its ability to influence public policy and its commitment to its own stated values.
Our focus should be on electing women, who are woefully underrepresented in office, as well as nurturing women who already are on a professional career track but who might be looking to give back in other ways—perhaps a year or two in public service or fundraising for a candidate or taking on a leadership role in the community.
We can make excuses and say Democrats lost in 2016 because it was a wave. It was undetectable anger, a populist outcry that didn’t show up in the polls. Or we could recognize it as an opportunity.
Angie Wethington was recently inducted into the Midwest Real Estate News Hall of Fame, thanks in part to more than 33.6 million square feet of property deals with an estimated $1.5 billion value.
The top woman in a commercial role in the 9,000-employee agricultural chemical giant, Wasson sits on the president/CEO’s Global Leadership Team and has served as treasurer and chairwoman of the finance committee of the Indiana Humanities board of directors.
Able to evolve with an evolving company, Shelly Towns has helped shape Angie’s List while extending her influence into the tech community on the TechPoint board.
Before her promotion in July, Aarti Shah was global brand development leader for ixekizumab, a new psoriasis drug marketed under the brand name Taltz. That’s just one of several life-changing drugs she has managed through multiple phases of development.
After helping grow the ExactTarget recruiting team from five to 45, M.T. Ray now attracts talent to High Alpha’s portfolio companies—including Lessonly, Sigstr, ClearScholar, Zylo and Doxly.
The former chairwoman of the Marion County Republican Party, Jennifer Ping is a principal at one of the leading public affairs firms in the state, specializing in legislative and executive branch lobbying, and political consulting.
