one individual, the president of -- [inaudible] and i was working at accenture, a partner at accenture. he recruited and hired me to be the publisher of the school division. think about how different, granted a catalog background and the publishing industry and so forth but still it is pretty different approach. my background being in strategy and technology and overall content and transformation of an industry. he basically saw that i could parlay that into joining into publishing organization and then the publisher of the school division. so i took that role your it was a huge risk he took and he was a phenomenal, great mentor, somebody who had a lot of high expectation but gave you complete freedom which helped me to fail but in a much more padded and easy way so i could succeed and learn from that. it was frankly transformational in terms of what he did for my career and for ever grateful for what they did. and as they say the rest is history. i had opportunities. >> we hear a lot about the glass ceiling. lisa, did you feel like there was ever a glass ceiling in your industry or in

one of the privileges of working at accenture is i get to work with exciting clients.s i chart my history with accenture, i've been working around digital disruption for the last couple of decades. it's interesting you mentioned napster. i was working with music majors, all of them, when napster hit them. and, you know, their response or lack thereof. then i've done a little work in the console gaming space. i've worked on all the last three generations of the consoles we know and love today. that's interesting from a digital disruption perspective. unlike the smartphone we throw away every couple years, consoles, you know, the likes of playstation and xbox, they have to last for a much longer period of time. so the product strategy and the digital decisions you're goingá to make around architecting those consoles, how you launch them and how they work through their generations is very different from a lot of the throwaway consumer electronics we've seen today. i've also been lucky enough since 2005 work with the leading cloud providers on their local clouds. that's in

i've been with accenture for nearly two decades and one of the privileges of working there is i get to work with lots of exciting clients and as i charity my history with accenture, i've been working around digital disruption for the last couple of decades and it's interesting you mentioned napst napster. i was working with the music major, all of them, when napster hit them and made their response or lack thereof and then i -- i've done work on the console gaming space. i've worked over the last three generations of the consoles we know and love today. and those are kind of interesting from arp"% digital disruption perspective because unlike the smart phone we throw away every three years, consoles, playstation, xbox, they have to last for a much longer period of time so the strategy and digital decisions you're going to make around architecting those consoles and how you launch them and they work through those generation different from a lot of the throw away consumer electronics we've seen today. i've been lucky enough since 2005 worked with the leading cloud providers on architecti

partners like ibm and accenture and rodriguez. next-generation enterprise applications.t customers to realize you can build apps on top of that? >> yes. emily: you have been in this application for 20 some years. what makes you think it can succeed? >> the majority of businesses getting built that are much more interoperable. if it bothered you, as a start up you would build a naphtha never worked. to partnera way is with millions of technology that with the world. the platform as a service is a fundamental way. if you think about what will happen in markets moving forward , developers will say if i want to have a messaging services as a core part of the application, i will use this. we will become the de facto underlying framework that powers applications to be more secure. emily: do you have customers already doing this kind of thing? thousands of customers build applications for their businesses. -- only this year is the first time you can do that at scale. the developers conference in march we announce the news that of capabilities around this that are in beta right

give than luxoft is trading at 19 times earnings in line with its years like accenture and cog any zanlteven with a faster growth rate, you can argue it's cheaper at these levels. i think it is. use the next market sell-off, there will be one, to buy it on weakness. it looks really attractive. when i finished the research i said i have to do a whole piece on that luxoft. mike in my home state asked me about shopify, one of the year's hottest ipos when it became public in may. it just reported a strong quarter but i wanted to do more work on it. this this company is a full-service e-commerce platform for small, medium sized businesses. they help clients build a front-edge platform and provide them with greater visibility into their e-commerce performance on a realtime process with back-end analytics and canned reports. i thought this was astounding, currently more than 175,000 retailers use spop shopify. and they also have a number of value-added services, integration with accounting systems, promotional systems, facebook campaigns and linking its clients to the biggest online markets lik

the next day, a line began to form outside of the f on accenture in north richmond six hours before the funeral. they waited, wrote one reporter, dotting the sidewalks like the bright flowers arranged outside the ashe center. they leaned against rental trucks, stood on the crowded roads. they carried cameras and babies, video cameras and puppies. they took annual leave from state jobs or simply shut down their businesses. former tennis player stan smith and charlie, along with rod laver, joint senators bill bradley. the new york city mayor and the reverend jackson -- reverend jesse jackson. we shall songs like overcome, the anthem of the civil rights movement. along with songs like "when the saints go marching in." the eulogies at the funeral or powerful. ashe -- arthur ashe was just plain better. most athletes, jackson explained, limits themselves to achievements and contributions within the lines, but arthur found greatness be on the lines. governor wilder noticed how arthur ashe used every cover of his strength. when the service concluded, the eight housewares guided his casket -- pa