In the past few months, as Uber sputtered and veered off the road in a scandal-ridden pileup, the fast-moving ride-hailing firm has hired or featured one woman after another as it tries to keep from totaling its image.
Liane Hornsey, Uber's human resources executive who started in January after coming from Google, was front and center as the company dealt with allegations by an engineer about a toxic culture that was permissive of sexual harassment. Director Arianna Huffington has been the most visible spokeswoman for the board. The two big hires the company made in recent weeks as it tries to fill its hollowed-out executive ranks — Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei and former Apple marketing executive Bozoma Saint John — are women, as is one of its new additions to the board, Nestlé executive Wan Ling Martello.
