Nancy McKinstry

While McKinstry originally hails from the United States, she has served as the first female CEO of Dutch information services provider Wolters Kluwer since 2003. Though the company’s revenue dipped 2% between 2017 and 2018 to $4.7 billion, net profit still rose 3% as a result of McKinstry’s digital strategy, divesting a number of printing and distribution services in favor of investing in industrial software. She also increased the number of women in senior leadership at Wolters from 50% in 2018 to 65% in 2019, and under her management, the value of the company’s stock has risen approximately 19% in the past year and 364% in the entirety of her tenure.

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