. Assuming there are no additions or departures, Womack will become the eighth Black S&P 500 CEO in May.
“Everybody gets the right education, the right experience,” Yates said. “But I think the real differentiator is a sponsor or mentor who’s selling your story or singing your song when you’re not in that room. And I think that makes a big difference.” “No one comes to the table with everything that’s perfect, but I think I have a lot of different experiences over a 30-year period,” Yates said. “So I think when the board looked at that, I think all those characteristics helped my case significantly.”
Butler, 53, has a law degree and cut his teeth as an in-house utilities lobbyist. He would later assume external affairs, human resources and profit-and-loss responsibilities at Chicago-based Exelon, which has 10 million customers across the Midwest and East Coast and 2022“How do we continue to sustain momentum and ensure that we’re really creating equity within the C-suite?”He said there were two milestones that proved instrumental in his journey to the top.