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The Financial Daily Times

Breaking News…

 

Managing Director Madeline Piatro, of Giganto Foods, has just been named President and CEO in a surprise unanimous vote by the Giganto Board of Directors.

Ms. Piatro, who was married earlier this year, is the first female President and CEO in the Company’s 35-year history. At 41 years old, she now joins the ranks as one of the youngest CEOs on Wall Street. And is making history as the first CEO to be pregnant while taking over the reins of a Fortune 500 Company.

It is rumored that Ms. Piatro announced her pregnancy to the Giganto Board of Directors in June, but despite the news, they voted to install her as CEO two months later in August.

Ms. Piatro began her career as an executive consultant with Henry Wrona Public Relations and Marketing, a boutique firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. She later moved on to become Vice President of Organics 4 Kids where it is rumored she developed the business plan for the company and then left under hostile circumstances.

Within a few months, Ms. Piatro became a rising star at Giganto as Vice President of the Organic Children’s Division. The Financial Daily News reported that Ms. Piatro was “The Person to Watch,” and Investor’s Magazine named her in its prominent list of “The Top Ten Executives of the Year.”

According to the latest Annual Report to Shareholders, Ms. Piatro has transformed the Organic Foods division into Giganto’s most profitable unit, causing the stock price to rise a hefty 30 percent.

When asked whether the recent bankruptcy announcement by CEO Carlton Connors, of Organics 4 Kids, had anything to do with Giganto’s enormously profitable performance, Ms. Piatro replied, “The failure of Organics 4 Kids was not due to direct competition from Giganto, but rather from a company that had lost its direction and turned away from its founding principles.”

In a rare speech given at the Worldwide Organic Food Conference in San Francisco, California, where she accepted an award for her charitable contributions, Ms. Piatro was magnanimous in her words…

She first thanked the employees and staff of Giganto for their hard work and dedication, along with her husband, and her brother, Ronald Piatro, who Chairs the nonprofit drug rehab program: “The Miracle Teens.”

“Companies are only as vibrant as the people who run them,” Ms. Piatro said.

When teased by a reporter about whether Ms. Piatro would assume her husband’s last name, she laughed and responded, simply, “My husband has never told me his last name.”

Ms. Piatro’s husband is rumored to work undercover for the FBI.

About the Author

JO BARRETT
’s previous novel,
The Men’s Guide to the Women’s Bathroom
, was published in five countries and optioned by CBS/Paramount Pictures. She is a frequent guest on television and radio shows nationwide.

Ms. Barrett was born in Japan, grew up in Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, and Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C.

She is a former Capitol Hill staffer for Congressman Collin Peterson, and member of the Texas State Bar.

Currently, she divides her time between Texas and the two coasts.

For more information about the author, please go to:
JoBarrettBooks. com.

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By Jo Barrett

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Cover design by Laura Klynstra
Cover photograph by Luca TravatoFoodPix/Jupiterimages

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED (NOT A LOVE STORY).
Copyright © 2007 by JoAnna Barrett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition © DECEMBER 2007 ISBN: 9780061842832

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