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Firms hotly pursue new wave of women in tech

Competition to attract women to join tech company boards intense in Silicon Valley

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Women who are younger, tend to be ethnically diverse and have grown up in digital businesses for much of their careers are sought after to join technology company boards <b>Bloomberg</b>

Pui-Wing Tam
For months, technology companies have pursued Amy Chang. The calls were relentless, with several feelers a month, said Chang, the chief executive of Accompany, a Silicon Valley start-up. Even when she declines the overtures, the tech companies and their agents keep coming back, asking the same question: Will you please join our board?
 
“I turned down 15 to 20 first meetings” about joining a company board this year, said Chang, 39, who was an executive at Google for seven years before founding Accompany, which makes an executive-briefing app. “This whole thing is so crazy.”
 
Chang eventually agreed to