Presenting the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business 2024 ✨✨

Every year San Francisco Business Times has the pleasure of celebrating the most prominent and powerful women in Bay Area business in our Influential Women awards. 

From Fortune 500 CEOs to Nobel laureates, founders and funders, scientists and c-suite executives, these leaders have been selected from across the Bay Area business and nonprofit communities. 

This year we received close to 400 nominations. After weeks of sometimes heated deliberation we arrived at our final list of honorees. 

It is our pleasure to present the first group of honorees in our class of 2024 here:

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Tina Self from Bayer

Aicha Evans from Zoox

Jane Chung from Sutro Biopharma, Inc.

Carolina Martinez from CAMEO Network

Dana Marineau from Rakuten

Elaine Sun from Mammoth Biosciences

Kazuko Morgan from Cushman & Wakefield

Hillary Blout from For The People

Marisa Rodriguez from Union Square Alliance (Business Improvement District)

Kanishka Karunaratne Cheng from TogetherSF Action

Katie Pollard, PhD from Gladstone Institutes

Argelia Barcena from Gensler

Sally Gilligan from Gap

Lori Wren Elerts from Deloitte

Gloria Colgan from Visa

Susie Cranston from Cresset

Lin Qiao from Fireworks AI

Nicole K. Paulk, PhD from Siren Biotechnology

Melissa Tytko Andretta from San Francisco International Airport

Shanna Hansen from Mechanics Bank

Linda Rendle from The Clorox Company

Charleen Avenell, CPA from AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah

Susan Hubbard from Exelixis

Katie Hilkemeyer from KPMG

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Over the next few weeks we'll reveal the full list of honorees for the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business 2024. 

These awards culminate in a celebration gala in San Francisco on October 10 and a special edition of the paper that will be published on October 11. 

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