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Hello, my name is Mary Ritz. I'm vice president of product strategy at Fordrock.

Okay. is Mary Ritz. I'm vice president of product strategy at Fordrock. Most of my career I've been a woman in a male-dominated career, and in fact, I became a

manager and a leader very early on, so I was often leading people, mostly men older than me,

potentially smarter than me, more well paid than me.

So I had to learn how to think about galvanizing this group to charge forward with me,

even though I was a bit of a minority in that way.

But my method for doing that was just to make sure we all stayed very passionate about what we're running toward.

I had a hunch that I wanted to be an accountant because I had a pragmatic mindset and some good

business acumen. Turns out, in college I had a pragmatic mindset and some good business acumen.

Turns out, in college, I took some accounting classes and realized I definitely did not want

to be an accountant. I took other classes that excited me so much more. I started taking math

classes like calculus, linear algebra, and I also started taking computer classes, particularly networking,

and it just really sparked my intellectual curiosity. So I just kept running in that direction

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