Today Euronext, a wholly owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange Group (NYSE: ICE) celebrates International Women’s Day by hosting events across all its markets to highlight the contributions women have made to innovation and economic growth. In Amsterdam, trading was opened by Simone Brummelhuis, founder of The NextWomen.
The NextWomen is a community of investors, entrepreneurs and advisors. Today it launched The NextWomen Crowd Fund, an investment fund that encourages and supports female investors and entrepreneurs. To celebrate, members of the community visited Beursplein 5 and attended the gong ceremony.
In honor of International Women’s Day, Euronext is bringing together business leaders, government officials, industry influencers, clients and partners in several events to discuss key issues impacting its global markets. In all Euronext locations trading was opened or will be closed with female leaders and executives representing various philanthropic and entrepreneurial organizations. Additionally, conferences and discussion sessions will cover several topics, including the challenges of the digital world, entrepreneurship and risk taking, creating female opportunity and leadership.
Anne Louise Metz, Head of Listing for the Netherlands at Euronext said: “Today’s opening honors women entrepreneurs with the Next 100 Women Award winner and the closing of trading puts a spotlight on the research of Vigeo, on how Dutch companies work on the prevention of discrimination and the promotion of gender diversity in the workplace. We are proud to support these initiatives.”
For more information about Euronext’s International Women’s Day 2014, please go to: www.euronext.com/international-womens-day
