NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Melissa Lynn Horn embarks on the capstone of her career as Chief Executive Officer of United Chemicals Corporation. But someone is determined to see her fall along with UCC. Follow this career driven woman as she scales corporate heights, fights off an usurper for her title, an enemy out to destroy UCC. Will she pass the test of being CEO or will it be her downfall? Find out in CEO, a fascinating novel by Patricia E. Gitt.
Melissa Lynn Horn, ML to her peers, has honed her executive and leadership skills as Vice President of Haynes Associates and has rightly earned her title as new Chief Executive Officer of United Chemicals Corporation. There are those, however, who are opposed to her appointment as CEO and long to see her fail. ML is determined to prove them wrong and succeed but she faces an unexpected romance, along with the challenge of being the first woman in a closed corporate Men's Club. As she has never been in a successful relationship, she has yet to learn what it is to receive and give love. Has she finally met the special man that would teach her to love?
CEO is a corporate page-turner complete with ambition, betrayal, romance and greed. It is a slice of corporate life, from the viewpoint of the first woman to be appointed CEO of an industrial corporation. CEO is real life upped in pace, color, flavor and tempo. Possessing the ambition that is comparable to that of a man, ML attacks her responsibilities with the zeal of a competitor. The only acceptable outcome is to win! But can she deal with the insecurities of an unexpected romance coupled with her corporate problems?
In the end, does the woman make the CEO -- or does being CEO force the executive to become a woman?
About the Author
Patricia E. Gitt has built a career in public relations having worked with some of the legends of her profession. Her career has given her access to many ambitious and talented women in corporate America, as well as an insider's view of the costs and challenges these women faced in building careers in predominantly male environments of industry, retailing, broadcasting and financial services. Fascinated by power, those who amass it and those who are exiled from it, Patricia has used this writer's resource in creating a fictional world that will be familiar to career women and men alike. Patricia lives in Manhattan where she is currently finishing her second novel "ASAP," the story of a successful career woman, wife and mother who has her world threatened by her husband's association with an Asian black market ring.
CEO * by Patricia E. Gitt
Publication Date: December 12, 2001
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