AB InBev

• The Financial Services reporting segment will be led by three leaders who will each be responsible for managing StoneCo’s business for a specific client category.
• He will be responsible for managing the Software reporting segment, its go-to-market business and integration initiatives.
• Mr. Bassili has extensive experience managing people and integration efforts in organizations and will leverage his responsibilities to accelerate the integration of Software within each client segment.
• Gilsinei Hansen, current COO of Software, will remain in the Company as a senior advisor, involved in the daily operations of the Software business and its integration initiatives.

• Big corporations such as North Face, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Target and Kohl’s have all recently ran inclusive ad campaigns featuring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) people.
• This makes sense from a business perspective, with “pink money” weighing 3.5 trillion euros globally and around 874 billion euros in the EU.
• And I can testify that diverse corporate boards are a long shot from becoming reality.
• This comes as a particular surprise given the European Commission’s recent pledges to boost opportunities for the community.

The case for diversity

• And yet, the case for board diversity is stark.
• What’s more, a truly diverse board could boost companies’ ratings in environmental, social and governance (ESG) and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
• For example, this could mean advocating for queer rights in some of the near 70 countries that continue to criminalize same-sex relationships.

Step forward

• For DEI initiatives to reach a successful outcome, there must first and foremost be reliable demographic data.
• Due to historic discrimination against LGBTQI+ people, there has long been a justifiable reluctance to self-identify.
• The findings showed that when companies are not inclusive, LGBTQI+ employees are willing to leave for those that are.
• The organization encourages out LGBTQI+ corporate directors to self-identify, be counted, and mentor qualified candidates for board seats.

Leveraging gender policies to appoint more LGBTQ+ women at the top

• After the share of CEOs in the Fortune 500 dropped by 25% in 2018, a host of European countries, including Norway, Germany, Finland, France and Spain, introduced gender quotas in 2022.
• As companies look to comply with this law, there is an opportunity to appoint women who identify as LGBTQI+.

• AnswerRocket , an innovator in GenAI-powered analytics, today announced new features of its Max solution to help enterprises tackle a variety of data analysis use cases with purpose-built GenAI analysts.
• Max offers a user-friendly chat experience for data analysis that integrates AnswerRocket's augmented analytics with OpenAI's GPT large language model, making sophisticated data analysis more accessible than ever.
• “Max is enabling several of the world’s most recognizable brands to understand better what’s driving shifts in their business performance, effectively turning their vast data lakes and knowledge bases into a treasure trove of business insights.”
  Max's advanced capabilities solidify its position as the first GenAI assistant for data analysis built for the enterprise.
• Structured and Unstructured Data Support: Max supports both tabular and text-based data analysis, allowing companies to glean insights from vast enterprise data, documents, and multiple data sources seamlessly in a single conversation.

• The newly released index, produced by brand-led business transformation company FutureBrand , focuses on 100 companies with the largest global market capitalisation, as determined by PwC.
• The index is based on research around brand perception and includes an in-depth survey of business professionals in 15 countries.
• AI investment polishes brand halo: Actively investing in emerging technologies such as AI is an essential factor driving a company's brand perceptions success.
• The FutureBrand Index is a global perception study based on PwC's Global Top 100 Companies by Market Capitalization list.