Karen Goracke
(PRESS RELEASE)OMAHA, NE — Borsheims President and CEO Karen Goracke was offered with the Visionary Award on the Women’s Jewelry Association’s (WJA) 2021 Awards for Excellence Gala in New York Metropolis on Wednesday night. The annual fundraising occasion introduced collectively 250 company in individual and lots of extra nearly for an evening of networking and celebration.
Being honored alongside Goracke was vogue trade titan and award-winning creator of New York Vogue Week, Fern Mallis. Themed Constructing Resilience By Accountable Enterprise, the occasion highlighted three necessary focus areas: variety, fairness and inclusion; accountable sourcing and sustainability; and management growth for girls.
In her acceptance speech, Goracke made a degree to acknowledge her many sponsors, colleagues and mentors who’ve helped assist and information her all through her distinguished profession. Within the viewers to assist her on Wednesday night time had been her husband of 30 years, two of her grownup sons, and Sonny Sethi of Tara Pearls, considered one of her many mentors.
WJA’s mission to “assist girls within the jewellery and watch industries advance and develop professionally via networking, training, management growth, and the supply of member companies” means a terrific deal to Goracke. Having stepped into the jewellery trade greater than 30 years in the past as a younger lady contemporary out of school, Goracke understands how important these items had been to her skilled growth. With over 85% of Borsheims employees being feminine, the corporate has been a longtime champion for working moms and a proponent of selling girls to management positions. Earlier than being appointed President and CEO by Warren Buffett, Goracke served in a number of completely different roles, together with Gross sales Affiliate, Stock Supervisor, Purchaser, and Director of Merchandising. This vary of expertise, paired along with her involvement in varied trade affiliations, has helped her purchase a breadth of data not solely of Borsheims but in addition of the worldwide jewellery trade.
Go to borsheims.com/blog for images of Goracke from the occasion.
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