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January 31, 2019 at 11:00 AM
Reading the biographies, accomplishments and concerns of 16 women leaders in wealth-management technology is both daunting and inspiring! Like appreciating a work of art, you have to catch your breath, take a second look at what is before you and then ponder “the bigger picture.”
Several of my closest female friends work in tech, mainly cybersecurity. And, though I enjoyed reading Clayton Christensen’s book “The Innovator’s Dilemma” on change and disruption and writing about tech trends affecting advisors each day, I cannot imagine being down in trenches like the executives and managers we feature in this month’s cover story.
I’ve have seen lots of tech trends firsthand over the years. First, while living in Japan from 1991 to 1994 as a freelance journalist and also part-time teacher for the electronics giant Panasonic (before many tech manufacturing jobs moved to China).
While living in Asia, I used to ask a friend, who would go on to lead Blockbuster’s too-little, too-late digital efforts, to send my stories to Europe and the U.S. from Asia using the new frontiers of the World Wide Web. I had no idea what he was doing, but was glad to have an alternative to faxing the text overseas.
Later, I wrote about the dot-com boom and bust while living in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. I even got to interview then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during a visit to Shanghai, when that city was having its own startup craze.
