Maritime industry leaders from all over
the globe gathered to shine a light on
gender diversity in the maritime industry
at the second edition of the Maritime
SheEO digital conference held on
November 25. The conference focuses
on UN SDGs across borders to help
foster the future generation of maritime
professionals from all over the world.

PTC CEO Gerardo Borromeo was among
the panelists for the session on “Best
Practices – The Business Case for
Diversity” which discusses the
correlation between increased
representation in the workplace with
stronger business outcomes.

“Gender diversity has always been part
of the DNA of the PTC Group over the
last 43 years. When the company was
started, 5 out of 6 of its top leaders
were female. Today, out of the top
two, one is female. And out of 17 top
executives, seven are female. From the
technical perspective, we have 46
crewing managers from the shipping
side, 26 of whom are female.”

Karen Avelino, PTCi Executive Director
for Business Development, meanwhile
took part in a session on “Diversity in
the Maritime Industry: Hiring More
Women for Profitable Businesses.”

“Diversity matters in our
organization,” stressed Ms. Avelino.
“At PTC, our job ads are genderneutral, we don’t say female or male,
and our vacancies can be filled up by
any gender. Our human resources
evaluates candidates based on their
skills and attitude, never on gender.
In the Shipping Cluster where I
belong, 68% of our population are
female.”