Women On The Move - Top Female Executives and Business Owners Making Headlines in America

WITI Las Vegas Founder Laura Fucci is Appointed Chief Information Officer of Clark County, Nevada!

Laura Fucci, founder of the WITI Las Vegas Network, has been appointed as the Chief Information Officer at Clark County, Nevada. Clark County is home to the world-famous Las Vegas Strip, heart of the Entertainment Capital of the World and site of 14 of the nation's 15 largest hotels.

In addition to hosting more than 38 million tourists annually, Clark County is also one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, with more than 5,000 people moving here each month. Laura, a native to Southern Nevada, is excited to take on this new position where she can contribute to the community through the use of technology and help prepare the County for further growth.

Laura brings a rich background of leadership and technical experience with her to this public role. Prior to joining Clark County, Laura was the VP and Chief Technology Officer for MGM MIRAGE, one of the largest casino resort companies in the world.

WITI Hall of Famer Frances E. Allen Honored with the Prestigious $100,000 Turing Award... Congratulations Fran!

One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman Wednesday for the first time in the award's 40-year history.

Frances E. Allen, 74, was honored for her work at IBM Corp. on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers, the programs that translate one computer language into another.

This process is required to turn programming code into the binary zeros and ones actually read by a computer's colossal array of minuscule switches.

Meet Alicia Young, the new Executive Director of the WITI New York Network

Alicia Young, an Executive Vice President and New York Technology Practice Leader for Ruder Finn, brings more than a decade of editorial, marketing and public relations experience to WITI.

Working for clients such as NEC, Infonet Services Corporation, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Agency.com, the Technology Practice has earned more than a dozen industry awards and nominations for its proprietary Client Reporting and Measurement systems, Media Relations campaigns, creative use of multimedia PR tools, and effective promotion of new and existing technologies to the press and analyst communities.

With a diverse background in consumer, business-to-business and high-technology programming, Alicia is a strategic partner in helping clients leverage their marketing and product/service assets to develop visionary branding and communications programs based upon insightful corporate messaging and measurable results. Alicia's experience involves working with such clients as: Information Builders, Targus, Ricoh Corporation, Microsoft, AboveNet, Sharp Electronics, Time Warner Cable, Technology Service Solutions (IBM), Reebok International, Target.com and Alliance Data Systems.

Dr. Laura Haas elected as a Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery

Dr. Laura Haas, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of Computer Science at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, was just elected as a Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for her research leadership and contributions to federated database systems. In her career, Dr. Haas has been a key force in transforming the information management discipline from a focus on individual, largely relational database management systems, to one centered on providing a rich information infrastructure for all types of information. As an innovator and leader, she drove the technology foundations of three generations of research projects on integration of diverse information, producing not only innovative technologies and papers, but also shaping IBM products and research directions both in IBM and across the industry.

Share your good news! When good things happen, sometimes you just have to tell everyone! At Par Excellence, we want to celebrate your accomplishments with you, your promotions, inventions, mergers, launches, publications and awards. Drop us a line!

Return to Top

Par Excellence is the respected voice amidst the chatter of other women's magazine titles. In Par Excellence top female executives share information on all the topics that their counterparts crave, including networking, executive coaching, mentoring, financial planning and financial strategies for women, fashion, technology, marketing trends, family, healthy lifestyle, success strategies, diversity & inclusion and much, much more.