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WOMEN INI TECH
Mascarenhas PR LTD’s website highlights diversity and inclusion. Associates are of wide ethnic backgrounds with diversity of age and gender, yet are excellent within their specialities. Changes in gender diversity were noticeable in Europe – the President of FCI in Paris was a woman, and later, Smiths Interconnect selected a woman President, Karen Bomba, who remains a friend.
Why are you passionate about what you do?
Through my work, I learn more all the time, and this highlights global injustice. Child slavery within conflict minerals. Some G7 and G12 nations massively exploit developing countries. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) exports tantalum vital for mobiles and laptops, so why is mineral-rich DRC desperately poor? My first conflict minerals article was published in the 100-year anniversary issue of Electronics World in 2013 . I continue to write and campaign. President Obama instigated the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act in 2010 requiring firms like Apple, Google, HP, Intel, etc., to confirm purchase of vast quantities of
Setting off on the Orient Express with editors for a Weidmuller press conference at Arundel Castle
Integrity
A true credit to Mascarenhas PR LTD was that these clients competed against one another but were run, at times, concurrently by me – highlighting the integrity assigned to my agency. Over the span of your career, have you noticed any shifts in diversity – especially gender diversity – within the technical teams or clients you’ve worked with?
MASCARENHAS PR LTD - celebrating at the Grosvenor Hotel with long standing clients FCI and Itron (UK) Ltd.
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