Gwen Houston
General Manager-Global Diversity and Inclusion
Microsoft
Before joining Microsoft, Gwen served as Vice President-Diversity for Campbell Soup Incorporated. In that capacity she was responsible for creating, promoting, and strengthening diversity programs at all levels of the organization. For the first two years of her tenure, Gwen also oversaw the global staffing and talent function.
Prior to joining Campbell, she was the Vice President of Diversity Capability and Business Development with Aetna Inc., primarily responsible for implementing change-management strategies to leverage and integrate diversity across the company.
Houston earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now University of Louisiana). She earned her joint law degree and a master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Texas at Austin.