Technology outsourcing company Accenture has named 647 people to managing director and senior managing director, including a record percentage of women.
Accenture has promoted a number of women to leadership roles. Recently, Accenture surpassed its goal to reach 40 percent women new hires worldwide by 2017.
Accenture said women account for 30 percent of the newly promoted managing directors, the largest percentage of women ever promoted to this level at Accenture and up from 29 percent in 2015.
Of the combined managing directors and senior managing directors, 29 percent are women against 28 percent in 2015.
“Each of these individuals has demonstrated leadership, passion and energy in serving our clients, developing our people and running our business,” said Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s chairman and CEO.
Accenture has more than 145,000 women – more than one third of its global workforce. Accenture has 384,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
