Shepherd: It's still a very male-dominated industry and still not a very integrated industry. I do not see as many women as I would like in the executive ranks, but I expect to see that number grow as more executive women meet more executive women. I think we will find the capabilities of pulling more women into the executive roles. Once you realize that there's many, many more women out there that are capable and have the skill sets that are needed for executive level roles, it gives everybody the confidence that they can hire more women into executive level roles.

If you look at some organizations like Lantheus Holdings, Inc., the former CEO, Mary Ann Heino, or the former CEO at Insulet Corporation, Shacey Petrovic, had a very good balance of women in their executive ranks. And as these women get promoted, they will be more comfortable in saying to their HR directors, ‘Why am I not seeing more women in the hiring mix? I want to see at least three candidates.’

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