SoftBank Vision Fund Adds Lead Investors, Including First Woman Managing Partner
Lydia Jett will be the first female investor to take the managing partner rank at the fund.
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SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund is promoting four investors to its top rank of managing partner, including Lydia Jett, who will be the firm’s first woman to hold that title.
Jett said that she didn’t set out to tackle gender barriers, but that she recognizes the significance of adding more high-ranking women investors in an industry where they’re rare. Female newcomers “appreciate having senior women to look to, and then try and model after,” she said. “I am honored to be in that position.” Almost half of the 41 investors the Vision Fund has hired since the start of its fiscal year in April are women, a spokesman said.