Kim K. Azzarelli

Kim Azzarelli is the CEO and Co-Founder of Seneca Women, a global leadership platform focused on advancing women and girls. A proponent of women in technology, she has led the development of the recently launched Seneca Women Podcast Network, with Founding Partner P&G, and the Seneca Women app. Together with Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Kim is co-author of the best-selling book Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose and is co-host of the podcast Seneca Women: Conversations on Power and Purpose.

A leading corporate, legal and media executive, Kim has significant experience in launching and building programs with Fortune 100 companies, including Apple, Bank of America, Bloomberg Media and P&G, among others. She has held senior philanthropic and legal roles at Newsweek, Goldman Sachs and Avon. At Newsweek Daily Beast, she served as Senior Vice President, leading strategy, partnerships and philanthropy for Women in the World. At Goldman Sachs, she led the billion-dollar donor advised fund, Goldman Sachs Gives. At Avon, she served as Vice President, Legal and Public Affairs and Corporate Secretary. 

Prior to joining Avon, she practiced corporate and securities law at Latham & Watkins and clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Harold Ackerman. Kim is co-founder of Cornell Law School’s Center for Women and Justice and co-author with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of "Sustainable Development, Rule of Law and the Impact of Women Judges.”