AkzoNobel has announced that North American Director of Vehicle Refinishes Doug Holmberg will be one of the honored speakers at the 2014 Women’s Industry Network (WIN) Educational Conference being held May 5-7 at Paradise Point in San Diego, Calif. Holmberg will address convention attendees during the Awards Gala where, for the first time in 14 years, the Most Influential Women (MIW) Awards will be presented under the new stewardship of WIN.
The MIW Awards have been presented annually since the program was created by AkzoNobel in 1998. The first awards were presented in December of 1999 in Atlanta, Ga., in conjunction with NACE and established to recognize the value of strong leaders and the numerous leadership roles filled by women at all levels of the collision repair industry. To date, more than 70 women have received the award.
Along with the awards, AkzoNobel also developed the MIW Scholarship Fund. Administered by the Collision Repair Education Foundation, the fund was targeted at creating a method to aid the career aspirations of young women wishing to enter or advance within the collision repair industry.
“On behalf of AkzoNobel, we are extremely pleased that this pioneering program will now be sustained under the extraordinary leadership of the WIN organization,” said Holmberg. “Some of our earliest MIW Award recipients were catalysts in helping form the foundation of WIN, so it is only fitting that this groundbreaking awards program be led by those who have benefited, are stakeholders and have a vested interest in its long-term success and growth.”
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