Carmen O'Neil is the head of raw material purchasing for Rubber Technologies Americas at Continental Tire the Americas.

Elif Duz is the sales manager for Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa for Cabot Corp.

Santrese Jackson is a senior product industrialization engineer for Continental Tires.

Lorie DeLong-Candelmo works at Continental Contitech in Sun Prairie, Wis.

Valentina Zitignani is the operation manager for Cabot Corp. in Ravenna, Italy.

Sandra Martinez Sevilla works at Morgan Polymer Seals.

AKRON—When Heidi Cressman's daughter received the prestigious Gold Award in Girl Scouts, she told the presenter she wished to pursue a professional career in medicine—to which the presenter replied, "Nursing is a great field!"

Sandra Ortega is a plant technical team leader and engineering coordinator at Cabot Columbiana.

Lynn Sweeney is the director of sales operations at Yokohama Tire Corp.