Maryam Ali Ficociello serves on multiple governance, compliance, and sustainability committees, and each time she was recommended for one of those board seats, it was a man who would endorse her.
But when Ficociello gets an opportunity to advocate for a peer to be considered for an open board seat, she has prioritized women. “I know that unless we help the other women have that first opportunity, it just doesn’t happen,” said Ficociello during a leadership lunch Tuesday at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Riyadh.
