As a leader in the technology research and advisory industry across the planet, we take seriously our responsibility to advocate for human dignity and equality across gender and race.
We support the movement to enable change and support gender and racial justice in the United States and around the world. We must remain unwavering in our responsibility to overcome our societal challenges in racism, bigotry and inequality towards outcomes that motivate action and produce outcomes.
As a firm and as a collective voice of families and individuals, we can look inward, but we must ask what we can do to empower positive change in our society. At Ventana Research, people are at the center of our being and our top priority. Our commitment to this is part of our mission and our values, and it has compelled us to elevate the focus of diversity and equality in the workplace.
We will do our part to speak up and represent that the values of humanity are everyone’s rights and ensure our pledge to do what we can as part of the solution. We recognize that we can do more and are committed to ensure our dialogue with our workforce and clients is part of socializing a path to improvement.
Our firm over twenty years has worked to do our best in equality in our hiring practice and resulting workforce. Today, our workforce is balanced with 50% represented by women, and since our beginning our hiring has represented 47% women. Our diversity of color today represents 14% of our workforce, and our hiring since the beginning has represented 17%. We know there is more we can do and is a fundamental principle that is considered in every recruitment and resulting hiring decision.
We at Ventana Research have a desire for progress and the knowledge that there is no place for gender or racial inequality in our firm or society, and we will do what we can to help influence change. This is a journey and we are committed to listening and learning from that which can advance the values and policies of our country.
Regards,
Mark Smith
Founder and CEO
Ventana Research