Corinne Drummondformer Legal Program Manager for the world’s leading tech company and former executive at Pinterest, is investing in the burgeoning startup to support its efforts to diversify the tech industry.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Former Google and Pinterest executive Corinne Drummond becomes an aspiring start-up company We in technologyis the main investor.
Drummond is a former Legal Program Manager for Google, responsible for negotiating strategic deals for various Google products and serving as a senior legal leader at Pinterest. At both companies, in addition to his work in the legal departments, Drummond made an early contribution to their DEI efforts and assisted the corporate giants in developing their diversity strategy and public relations.
As such, it has made a sizeable investment as part of Us In Technology’s (UIT) recent funding rounds. Drummond, now an entrepreneur herself, said she was proud and excited to support UIT’s mission of diversifying the industry by connecting historically underrepresented talent with each other and with hiring technology companies.
Why UIT and not other companies dedicated to a similar mission?
“There are many recruitment firms that specifically focus on different candidates,” adds Drummond, “but they are often founded and run by people who have never been in the candidate’s position and don’t inherently understand the whole of the problem, What they’re aiming for We in technology hail from Kendrick [Trotter, Founder & CEO] who has personally experienced the very problem he is trying to solve,” she says. “It gives the company a unique ability to accurately assess the barriers to entry and advancement for underrepresented candidates in technology and spurs them on to always push ahead.”
“We’ve spent the last two years collecting data on some of the most common barriers underrepresented people face when entering the industry and…
