February 19, 2025
Robin L. Washington is a 2025 recipient of the BLACK ENTERPRISE Legacy Award.
BLACK ENTERPRISE will honor Robin L. Washington with a Legacy Award on the nineteenth annual BE Girls of Energy Summit. The Legacy Award honors girls in enterprise who’ve soared to the highest of their respective fields, exemplifying excellence, magnificence, and poise.
Lately named president and chief working and monetary officer (COFO) of Salesforce, Washington’s finance profession continues to ascend 40 years later.
The incoming COFO graduated from the College of Michigan in 1984 and obtained her MBA at Pepperdine College. Washington entered the non-public sector as a monetary analyst and rose above her entry-level place to develop into supervisor of worldwide income recognition, worldwide accounting supervisor, and director of finance at Tandem Computer systems.
In 1996, PeopleSoft employed the Legacy Award winner as senior vp, formally marking her ascension into the C-suite. Washington has efficiently directed a number of firms’ administration, development, and monetary futures, together with Hyperion Options (CFO) and Gilead Sciences, the place she oversaw international finance, services, operations, and investor relations. Washington presently sits on the Board of Administrators of Alphabet and Honeywell Worldwide.
In an interview with How Girls Lead, Washington credit her regular development in enterprise to her “can-do, will-try” angle.
“It actually comes all the way down to utilizing your individual self-assurance and your individual perception in your self as a driver to the way you present up,” she mentioned. “Simply have a can-do, will-try angle. Know that you’re accountable for managing your model. . . It’s a must to personal it,” she mentioned.
Accordingly, Washington has owned her energy in enterprise and life. Don’t miss the chance to rejoice Washington on the Legacy Awards gala March 5-9 on the Bellagio Lodge & On line casino in Las Vegas.
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