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HOUSE OF ROSE PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCES 2025 BREAK THE CEILING TOUCH THE SKY 101 BEST GLOBAL COMPANIES FOR WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP INDEX (BTC 101 GLOBAL INDEX)

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HORP Announces 2025 World Tour of Break the ceiling touch the sky® – the success and leadership summit for women

SINGAPORE, Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd  (HORP) –  global leaders in executive leadership development, today announced the 2025 Break the ceiling touch the sky® 101 Best Global Companies for women in leadership Index (BTC 101 Global Index) – HORP’s proprietary, annual listing of the world’s 101 best large global companies for women in leadership based on the measurement of gender diversity across the Boards and Executive leadership teams of the world’s 500 largest Companies by annual revenues.* 105 Companies feature in the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index as some companies tied for the 101 ranks.

HORP also announced the opening of plans for its 2025 World Tour of Break the ceiling touch the sky® – the success and leadership summit for women, with editions of the summit planned for the Americas, Asia, Middle East & Africa, Europe, and its climax World Edition in Q4 of 2025.  Each summit edition brings together the most successful organizations in that geography across business categories to accelerate their business impact by exchanging cross-industry best practices on leadership, gender balance and success. Since 2015 a total of 39 international editions of the summit have been held across the world with over 1000 C-suite executives and allies leading. Companies that wish to partner with the 2025 World Tour of Break the ceiling touch the sky® can sign up directly at www.houseofroseprofessional.com and potential sponsors can email interest to anthony@houseofroseprofessional.com

The BTC 101 Global Index is the annual study for  House of Rose Professional’s Mission 2029 for a Better World – the 10-year global initiative which kicked off in mid-2020 to shape a better world via better gender balance, better leadership and better business at the world’s largest Companies. For the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index, over 10000 executives were reviewed across the Boards and exec management teams of the world’s 500 largest Companies to arrive at a composite gender diversity score for each of the 500 Companies. The full list of the Companies that made it to the Top 101 ranks can be viewed at www.houseofroseprofessional.com

Key takeaways from the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index: 

The world’s largest and most successful companies are winning via more gender balanced leadership: Gender diversity is accelerating at the Board and C-suite of the world’s largest and most successful Companies. The entry-point gender diversity composite score for the BTC 101 Global Index moved up from 22.2% in 2020 (first year of the BTC 101 Global Index) to a significant 35.71% for the  2025 BTC 101 Global Index.  One in three Board executives and exec team executives of the lowest ranked company on the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index is female – up from 1 in 5 just 5 years ago! The top 10 companies on the Index all enjoy near perfect gender balance across their Board and leadership teams!

Companies on the 2025 BTC 101 Index were more successful in delivering revenue vs. non-Index  Companies (viz. more gender-balanced led Companies are more successful then less gender-balanced led Companies): Over 66% of the Companies that appeared on the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index grew revenues versus previous year, as compared to Non-Index Companies – only 56% grew revenues versus previous year).

Companies across Industries are leading on gender balance and its positive impact: The 2025 BTC 101 Global Index was led by companies representing a diverse group of industries including Diversified Financials, Food & Drug Stores, Commercial Banks, Petroleum Refining, Pharmaceuticals, Speciality Retailers and Insurance, Telecommunication, etc indicating the broad impact of women in leadership. 

USA, Europe and Australian-headquartered Companies led the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index with US-headquartered Companies (43), France (14), Britain (13), Germany (8), Canada (7), Australia (5), Switzerland (5), Netherlands (3), China (2), Spain (2). Italy, Japan and Portugal each had one company place in the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index. 

Asia continues to lag  on gender balance with obvious potential and opportunity ahead to unleash gender-balanced leadership: Asia had just  3 Companies (China – 2, Japan -1) in the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index. With over 200 of the world’s 500 largest Companies currently headquartered in Asia this reflects an urgent opportunity for Global Companies to actively gender-diversify their regional and country leaderships and unleash the full impact of a diverse workforce.

Women are leading at the very highest level, but there is an enormous gap and huge opportunity for gender balance at the CEO level: The number of Female CEOs in the world’s 500 largest Companies rose from 14 in 2020 to 29 in mid 2024 but dropped to 27 at the time of writing this release, indicating the incredible gap in today’s business environment where a majority of graduates globally are female, a majority of purchasing decisions are reportedly influenced by women yet under 6% of  the world’s 500 largest  Global Companies are led by a Female CEO.

Anthony A. Rose, Chairman and CEO, House of Rose Professional  and best-selling author of “Break the ceiling touch the sky: success secrets of the world’s most inspirational women” commented:  “Gender-diverse led companies are financially more successful, better employers, greater innovators, and better corporate citizens. The 2025 BTC 101 Global Index underlines the increasing business impact of gender balanced leadership and can be used as a benchmark for Companies of any size. Congratulations to all the Companies on the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index. For Companies not on the 2025 Index, we have created a cost-effective, simple means by which you can  benchmark  your leadership gender balance versus the BTC 101 Global Index by securing your Company’s  “Gender Balance Benchmark Sheet at www.houseofroseprofessional.com The House of Rose Professional team also stands ready with a team of highly experienced international executives to help you build your leadership pipelines and help you attract, develop and unleash the best leaders on your business.”

House of Rose Professional Pte. Ltd. (HORP) is the global leader in executive leadership development and provides international services in the areas of Talent (BeliEVE® and Dream Job International®), Training (Break the ceiling touch the sky®) and Transformation (CEOSmith®).   HORP has since 2014  enabled over 45000 women leaders and several thousand other leaders to greater success across over 450 global organizations. 

Notes:
*Fortune Global 500 2024, Aug 2024. 
All observations must be viewed in context that the smallest Company for 2024 in the FG500 had an annual revenue of 32 Billion USD. Smaller Companies are not considered for the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index but can easily benchmark using the HORP Gender Balance Benchmark Sheet.

MEDIA, CUSTOMER INQUIRIES:
Anthony A. Rose, House of Rose Professional at anthony@houseofroseprofessional.com

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Howard Hughes Holdings Set to Join S&P SmallCap 600

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NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HHH) will replace Arcosa Inc. (NYSE: ACA) in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Wednesday, October 28. S&P 500 constituent CRH plc (NYSE: CRH) has acquired Arcosa in a deal that closed today, October 23.

Following is a summary of the changes that will take place prior to the open of trading on the effective date:

Effective Date

Index Name  

Action

Company Name

Ticker

GICS Sector

October 28, 2026

S&P SmallCap 600

Addition

Howard Hughes Holdings

HHH

Real Estate

October 28, 2026

S&P SmallCap 600

Deletion

Arcosa

ACA

Industrials

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S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/. 

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Chelsea FC announces multi-year sleeve partnership with Sokin, the business payments and FX platform

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Chelsea FC name fast-growing fintech platform as Principal Partner

LONDON, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chelsea Football Club has today announced a multi-year partnership with Sokin, the embedded finance and payments company used by businesses worldwide. Sokin will be named a Principal Partner and Official Business Payments and FX Partner of Chelsea FC and Chelsea FC Women.

As a Principal Partner, Sokin will be represented on the sleeves of the Chelsea FC men’s, women’s and academy home, away, and third kits from the 2026/27 season.

The partnership brings together two ambitious London-headquartered organisations with worldwide reach – a club with millions of fans across the world and a fintech platform through which businesses move more than $11 billion a year. A club of Chelsea’s scale works in many currencies every day, with partners, competitions and supporters around the world, and needs a financial partner built to handle that.

Sokin gives finance teams business payments, multi-currency accounts, foreign exchange, checkout and treasury in one place, so they spend less time juggling banks and providers and keep more of what they move.

As Official Business Payments and FX Partner, Sokin will simplify how Chelsea FC sends, receives and manages money in the currencies the club operates in.

The Sokin logo will feature on the sleeve of the Chelsea shirt for the first time [when the men’s team host Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge on Saturday 24th October.]

Jason Gannon, President at Chelsea FC said:

“At Chelsea, we seek to partner with organisations that share our ambition and innovative mindset. Sokin’s expertise in business payments, and their focus on making both simpler for the businesses they serve, makes them a natural fit for the Club. We are pleased to welcome Sokin to the Chelsea family and look forward to working together in the years ahead.”

Vroon Modgill, CEO and founder at Sokin said:

“Chelsea plays on the biggest stage in world football, and its business runs in dozens of currencies. Sokin was built for that with regulated, multi-currency payments and foreign exchange for organisations that operate internationally. We’re proud to be the platform behind the business payments and FX of one of the most iconic teams in football. Sokin’s platform serves businesses in more than 170 countries. We’re thrilled to be partners for the season ahead. An organisation as sophisticated as Chelsea doesn’t leave its finances to chance.”

About Sokin

Sokin is the financial layer global business runs on. Businesses can transact, convert and hold money in 70+ currencies across 170+ countries. Some businesses use Sokin to manage global finance in-house. Others build it into their products to power financial experiences for their customers. Businesses move more than $9 billion a year on licenses Sokin holds in 36+ countries and infrastructure Sokin owns. Founded in 2019, Sokin has raised over $100 million from investors including Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Prysm Capital.

About Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea Football Club is one of the biggest, most successful football clubs globally and our men’s team are reigning world champions, having won the four-yearly FIFA Club World Cup in 2025. Our women’s team, Chelsea Women, are also multiple trophy winners.

Founded in 1905, Chelsea is London’s most central football club, based at the iconic 40,000-capacity Stamford Bridge stadium. Nicknamed the Blues, the club lifted the Champions League for the first time in 2012 and domestically has won the Premier League five times, the FA Cup eight times, the Football League Cup five times and the Football League Championship once, in 1955.

The Chelsea Women’s team have enjoyed a huge amount of success and in 2025 won the FA Women’s Super League for a sixth consecutive year and the eighth time overall. The Women’s FA Cup has been won on six occasions. We have also captured the FA Women’s League Cup four times as well as reaching the UEFA Women’s Champions League final in 2021. In two seasons, 2020/21 and 2024/25, a domestic treble of trophies was secured.

The Chelsea Foundation boasts one of the most extensive community initiatives in sport, helping to improve the lives of children and young people all over the world.

Media Contacts:

Taina Biggs
taina.biggs@sokin.com 

Nerissa Chesterfield
nerissa.chesterfield@chelseafc.com 

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Amy Johnson Appointed President of GDIT

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RESTON, Va., Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) announced today that Amy Johnson has been appointed as president of GDIT, effective November 3.

Johnson is a 27-year veteran of General Dynamics Mission Systems, where she held increasingly senior roles in engineering, engineering management and business leadership across cybersecurity, defense electronics, space and intelligence systems, most recently as vice president and general manager for Space, Cyber and Intelligence. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and computer systems engineering. 

“Amy has a proven track record of leading teams to solve complex and highly technical challenges for our customers,” said Phebe Novakovic, CEO of General Dynamics. “I am confident that her dynamic leadership, operational rigor and deep commitment to our values and culture will deliver value to our customers, employees and shareholders.”

GDIT delivers digital modernization, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and software development solutions to the U.S. federal government, defense, intelligence agencies and other customers. It is a business unit of General Dynamics, a global aerospace and defense company that offers a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation; ship construction and repair; land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions; and technology products and services. General Dynamics employs more than 120,000 people worldwide and generated $52.6 billion in revenue in 2025. More information is available at gd.com.

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