Milbank Partner Ulrike Friese-Dormann Receives Generation CEO Award

Ulrike Friese-Dormann, partner in Milbank’s Global Corporate Group, resident in the Munich office, was recently awarded “Generation CEO”, an initiative for the promotion of female leaders in Germany. The goal of this program is to spot female leadership talents in order to increase the number of women executives within German corporations. The initiative targets entrepreneurial-minded female executives with the potential to advance into a top management role within the coming five years. Every year twenty highly skilled women in Germany are elected.

The program was initiated by an executive search consultant together with Financial Times Deutschland and runs under the patronage of the German minister for family affairs. The initiative is supported by a large number of corporations including Bertelsmann, Henkel, Hugo Boss, Mercedes Benz, Otto Group, ProSiebenSat.1, Siemens, Swisscom, Trumpf and Vodafone.