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Kelly Kay is the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). In her current role she is responsible for overall business operations, technology delivery and continuing to build a more diverse and inclusive environment at TRI. Kelly joined TRI in February 2017 and formerly served as the Chief Operating Officer. Prior to TRI, Kelly served as the Vice President of Business Operations at Lyft, Inc., where she built and led the teams responsible for Regulatory Compliance, Audit & Reporting, Payments & Fraud, and Airport Operations. She also served as the Chief Operating Officer and President of YapStone, Inc., a leading electronic payments company in the real estate property space. Before serving as an operational leader, Kelly was an attorney for more than 19 years and held roles as a General Counsel, Associate General Counsel & Head of Compliance, as well as a leader in public policy and government relations at companies such as MasterCard, eBay, PayPal and J.P. Morgan (previously Banc One). Kelly has spent her career designing solutions to bring traditional, highly regulated products and services into the digital age in a compliant and operationally friendly manner. Her key areas of focus include ride-sharing, autonomous technologies regulation, online payments, online financial services, privacy, anti-money laundering, and online auctions. Kelly is an internal Board member of Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s corporate venture capital group. with over $200M under management. She attended The Ohio State University and Capital University Law School where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. In this episode of Fairygodboss Radio, Kelly Kay talks about her career journey and why you should never say no to opportunity. [Recorded on August 31, 2020]

Trey Boynton has spent her professional career working to create inclusive environments. For nearly 20 years, she worked in university settings driving equity and inclusion for students, faculty and staff at the University of Michigan. She shifted to the tech industry in 2017 when she joined Duo Security as their first head of diversity and inclusion. As the lead for overall diversity strategy, Trey envisioned a bold road ahead for Duo and implemented company-wide programs and initiatives that positively grew Duo’s magical culture and team. Duo achieved a milestone in August 2018 when it was acquired by Cisco as a cornerstone of their softwareas-a-service (SAAS) cloud security business. In her new Cisco role as the Global Lead for Inclusion Strategy & Alignment, she manages a team dedicated to building and delivering on inclusion promises and aspirations at scale. For Trey, inclusion work is deeply personal. She describes it as head and heart work centered on creating space so that employees and teams are valued, celebrated, and able to define their own success. In short, her ultimate goal is to reduce barriers to brilliance. Originally from her beloved northern California, she studied at Spelman College, Georgetown University and the University of Michigan. Her most important job is helping her two teen feminist daughters continue to be awesome and giving attention to their needy dog, Toby. In the two minutes of time she has left to spare, she fancies herself an overly hopeful San Francisco 49ers fan, a budding Lego engineer, and an expert on all things Jane Austen. In this episode of Fairygodboss Radio, Trey talks about how advancing equality in the workplace starts with knowing yourself. [Recorded on August 25, 2020]

In this episode of Fairygodboss Radio, LaQuenta Jacobs shares her journey to becoming XPO’s Chief Diversity Officer and the lessons she’s learned along the way. [Recorded on April 27, 2021] LaQuenta Jacobs provides cultural leadership and advocacy for diversity, equity, and inclusion as Chief Diversity Officer at XPO Logistics. She initially joined XPO as head of human resources for the company’s last-mile business unit. Prior to XPO, Ms. Jacobs led organizational development initiatives for global public companies, including Delta Airlines, The Home Depot, Turner BroadcasOng, and Georgia-Pacific. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Clark Atlanta University.

Petra Schmidt is Partner with Aon’s Enterprise Client Group. In her role, she partners with executive leadership at a select group of clients to explore mission-critical business issues and define methods to enable their clients’ business strategies and deliver more value to stakeholders.Petra has advanced her career with raw courage and determination and has held leadership roles spanning different cities and countries. In this episode of Fairygodboss Radio, Romy sits down with Petra to talk about taking the road less traveled and why we should fake it til we make it.

In this episode of Fairygodboss Radio, Jennifer Lewis shares her best career advice: build your brand and advocate for yourself. Recorded on May 3, 2021 Jennifer Lewis is vice president & general manager of the F-35 Avionics division. In this role, Lewis is responsible for business strategy, financial performance, successful execution and growth for the F-35 Mission Avionics division, which covers legacy production as well as Tech Refresh 3 (TR3) development and transition to production. The TR3 family of subsystems include the Aircraft Memory System, Panoramic Cockpit Display and the Integrated Core Processor - providing critical infrastructure to enable future warfighter capability. Prior to her current assignment, Lewis served as vice president of engineering for the $5.4B Integrated Mission Systems segment of L3Harris Technologies in 2018. Integrated Mission Systems provides a portfolio of solutions for C5, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting across all domains. She has over 15 years of engineering leadership experience and has led many national and international teams. L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris.com.