Orange County Business Journal has named Toshiba America Business Solutions' marketing leader Kerstin Woods a 2024 Woman in Business Award nominee.  

Award nominees were selected for accomplishing significant success within their respective organizations while benefiting the greater Orange County, California business community. Judges will additionally consider nominees' contributions to the Orange County community in general as well as their commitment to philanthropic causes. Sponsors at the Orange County Business Journal's annual event will present the six awards at the 2024 Women in Business Awards Luncheon & Program on Oct. 30 at the Marriott Irvine in Irvine, California.  

"This event is one of the premier contests in Orange County and which last year attracted an audience of about 800," said Peter J. Brennan, editor-in-chief, Orange County Business Journal. "Toshiba America Business Solutions is one of the most prominent companies with headquarters in Orange County."  

Woods has notched numerous accomplishments as Toshiba's vice president of solutions and outbound marketing. Upon joining Toshiba in June 2019, she was tasked with acquainting herself to an entirely new industry while shortly thereafter successfully leading her organization's marketing department through the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Woods has since led several profitable product launches while defining and adding new product categories for Toshiba, as well as launching the company's Elevate Sky cloud platform, which enables organizations' print productivity and digital automation across the Americas.  

Woods received the Stevie Award for Female Executive of the Year for her marketing excellence at Toshiba. Woods is also an ENX Magazine Difference Maker, 2024 The Cannata Report Best Female Executive of the Year nominee and leads the company's AI Task Force.  

An advocate for diversity and women in business, Woods is the executive sponsor for engagement, diversity and inclusion at Toshiba where she mentors many company employees. She also hosts numerous industrywide women's events annually.  Woods further began Toshiba's first-ever industry-wide giveback while raising more than $20,000 for Orangewood Foundation, a Southern California nonprofit helping foster youth transition into adulthood.

Woods additionally serves on the executive committee within the board of directors for Ocean Institute, a Southern California nonprofit providing firsthand STEM education to 13,000-plus students annually. Moreover, she has a long history of serving in leadership roles within her two children's local schools and is an enthusiastic advocate for school funding for sports, arts and hands-on science. Beyond these good works, Woods conducts admissions interviews on behalf of Stanford University's (her alma mater) Office of Undergraduate Admissions as a member of the university's alumni ambassador program.  

"Kerstin is one of the most impressive and dynamic individuals I've had the opportunity to collaborate and work beside," said Larry White, president and CEO, Toshiba America Business Solutions. "While her impact on our marketing efforts has been transformative, Kerstin also leads and is a mentor for our engagement, diversity and inclusion program, and is a powerful advocate for worthy causes in Orange County."