Chief Executive Officer, Bose Corporation
Debbie Salce intro Lila Snyder
2017 YWCA Greenwich 40th Brava Awards ... Debbie Salce, Brava Co-Chair presents the award to honoree Lila Snyder, President, Global Ecommerce, Pitney Bowes
About Lila Snyder
During a January 2023 CES keynote, Snyder discussed Bose's long-range vision, which she described as having four components centered on the customer. She stated that the company's research focuses on three "technology franchises": noise removal, creating immersive audio experiences, and a third area she did not name in the provided excerpt. Snyder also outlined an opportunity for Bose to pursue new forms of partnership, including bringing outside technology into Bose products and placing Bose's technology into other companies' products. Snyder was joined by Chief Marketing Officer Jim Malika, who described the work as a "Back to the Future" re-articulation of the Bose brand for diverse listening occasions. Snyder concluded by saying it is "an exciting time to be at Bose" and "an exciting time to partner with Bose."
Transcript (2 segments)
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Debbie Salty0:07
Good afternoon, my name is Debbie Salty, and I have the pleasure of introducing our next award recipient, who is a woman I'm also fortunate to have as a friend and as a colleague: Lila Snyder. She leads our global e-commerce business at Pitney Bowes. So what does that mean? It means that she and her team are working to reduce the complexity of the global shopping experience for all of us as consumers, and opening the global consumer base for companies such as our clients. What might be a more perplexing understanding is how a woman who earned her PhD in engineering at MIT studying tissue engineering is now helping the rest of us shop. She is a woman who is driven by a passion and a desire to learn and explore and take risks, and it's that side of her, coupled with a warm openness, that has people seeking her out in the office on a regular basis as a mentor. The weekends at home are spent with her husband and three children, Maya, Liam, and Finn, and their sports family. They love to attend the children's sports on the weekends, and they are avid Miami Hurricanes fans, one time actually traveling through a hurricane to see a Miami Hurricanes game. It's dedication and a little bit of crazy. Lila, I got to tell you, growing up in a small town in Ohio, Lila and her sister helped her dad fix pretty much anything and everything around the house, which led to both of them pursuing degrees in engineering. This is one of the reasons she's so passionate about STEM and what it means to future generations. Would you please join me in congratulating Lila on this award. For your commitment to excellence professionally and within our community, the YWCA would like to honor you with this 2017 Bravo award.
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Lila Snyder2:10
Hi everyone. We're coming to the end. We're at the S's. I was told I should get a name with an earlier letter in the alphabet. So thank you very much. Thank you to the YWCA for this lovely honor. Thank you to my many friends at Pitney Bowes and my old friends at McKinsey for joining us today. Thank you. I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about STEM. Debbie mentioned it. It's such an honor and a privilege to be among this amazing group of women. And when I look around and I hear the physicians, the engineers, the math geeks with a little bit of personality, I feel like I'm right at home up here. And I am passionate about this idea of science, technology, engineering, and math, and how important that is as a foundation for our society going forward. It really is the future of our economy. And there are far too few folks, men and women, going into those fields to be competitive. We believe at Pitney Bowes this is essential, and we are, with both data and technology, empowering our clients to be better every day. And I'm privileged and excited to be a part of that team. When I was a graduate student at MIT in engineering, getting my PhD, as Debbie mentioned, it admittedly was quite a long time ago, but in my graduating class of graduate students, it was five percent women. And at the time, I looked around and I wondered why there weren't other girls there, why others had not decided to take the path that I did. Admittedly, we're doing better, but still graduate programs in engineering are less than twenty-five percent women today. We have a lot more work to do. So what can we do? The most important thing is for all of us to encourage our young girls and young women to get their hands on technology at a young age. I had the privilege of having a dad who didn't have any sons, so thank you, Mom and Dad, and so I got the opportunity to do everything my dad did. I know how to fix an engine, I know how to reshingle a roof, I know how to fix a pool. I can do it all. And what that taught me was this wasn't so hard after all. Yes, you have to be smart, and yes, you have to know something about math, but girls can do this. I can do this. And my parents always encouraged both my sister and I that we could do anything. And that, I think, is the most important thing for all of us to do: get your girls with their hands on something physical, get their hands on a keyboard coding, get them into science and technology and math. The second thing is just to be sponsors. I've been lucky enough to have really amazing sponsors in my career, whether it was at school or all points along the way. And so giving women opportunities they don't think they're ready for, that they may not think they're qualified for, and they may be really scared to do, stand behind them and push them forward. Thank you very much.