近日，Ingredients Online 平台的创始人 Sherry Wang接受 Women in Nutraceutical（WIN） 的专访，分享了她在保健品原料行业的旅程以及 Ingredients Online 背后的愿景。

Women In Nutraceuticals (WIN) 是一个由全球营养保健品领导者牵头的非营利组织，致力于为营养保健品行业的女性提供支持，以帮助提高女性在最高管理层和整个膳食补充剂供应链中担任领导职务的比例 ，增加对女性领导的企业的资助，并增加女性对保健品研究的参与。

让我们通过专访，来详细了解Sherry Wang王总对平等和创新的一些看法。以下为英文原文实录及参考译文。

简介：Women In Nutraceuticals (WIN)感谢大家的支持，让我们有机会在迈向性别平等的过程中为行业服务。感谢我们的赞助商，他们是保健品行业的领导者，他们支持 WIN 在领导职位、商业投资和科学研究方面围绕性别平等所做的努力。本周，我们采访了 Ingredients Online 和 GWI 的创始人兼首席执行官 Sherry Wang。她在保健品行业拥有超过 25 年的经验。而且今年是原料直销平台 Ingredients Online 成立 10 周年。

Intro: Women In Nutraceuticals (WIN) appreciates the support of our sponsors for giving us the opportunity to serve the industry in our move toward gender equality. In our sponsor spotlight series, we showcase leaders across the nutraceuticals industry who are supporting WIN’s efforts around gender equity in leadership positions, business investment, and science and research. This week, we connect with Sherry Wang, founder and CEO of Ingredients Online and GWI. She has more than 25 years of experience in the nutraceutical industry; this year is the 10-year anniversary of ingredientsonline.com, a direct e-commerce ingredients platform.

WIN：Ingredients Online 是怎么支持 Women In Nutraceuticals 的使命和愿景？

王总：Ingredients Online一直重视员工队伍的多元化，并聘用和提拔女性担任领导职务，使公司管理人员的比例超过 70%。

WIN: Why is Ingredients Online supporting the mission and vision of Women In Nutraceuticals?

Wang: Ingredients Online has always valued diversity in its workforce and has employed and promoted women in leadership roles to comprise of over 70% of the company’s management staff.

WIN：你在职业生涯中冒过的最大风险是什么？

王总：应该来说，创办 Ingredients Online 是我在职业生涯中冒过的最大风险。在没有任何外部资金或以往经验的情况下，我选择从事 B2B 原料销售和分销，还决定采用电子商务市场商业模式，在2013 年的行业内也是前所未有的一件事。

WIN: What is the biggest risk you’ve taken in your career?

Wang: Certainly, founding Ingredients Online was the biggest career risk I have I taken. I took on B2B ingredients sales and distribution without any external capital or previous experience. I also decided to adopt an e-commerce marketplace business model, something virtually unheard of in the industry back in 2013.

WIN：您认为让更多女性进入营养品行业的领导层和科学领域有什么好处？

王总：我相信每个人都应该有机会发现可以让他们成长的工作。直到今天，仍有一些女性最终从事的职业无法满足她们，或者发挥不了她们的才能——这仅仅是因为她们没有被鼓励去探索某些途径。所以，（很遗憾）我们（整个社会）也没有从所有的人才库中汲取灵感，也未能将我们最聪明的人才吸引到一项关键事业中。而营养保健品行业中加入更多的女性，不仅增加了我们（企业）获得更多人才的机会，还为该领域带来了独特的视角，诞生了更多创新想法。

WIN: What do you see as the benefits of bringing more women into leadership and science in the nutraceutical industry?

Wang: I believe everyone deserves the opportunity to discover a line of work in which they can thrive. To this day, there are women who end up in professions that don’t fulfill them or don’t suit their talents—simply because they weren’t encouraged to explore certain avenues. As a result, we’re also not drawing from the entire talent pool and fail to attract some of our brightest minds to a crucial cause. More women in the nutraceuticals industry doesn’t just improve our chance of landing more of those bright minds. Women also bring a unique perspective to the field and thereby increase the odds of outdated ideas being challenged and innovative ideas being born.

WIN：您倾向于哪些领导力特征？您如何支持具有个人风格的其他领导者？

王总：我倾向于多智慧、创新和强大的执行力。（就我而言），我一脚涉足营养保健品，另一脚涉足技术，因此我（需要）不断学习新事物——这就是为什么我支持任何跳出框框思考，并为成熟的行业实践提供替代或补充策略的领导者。这些类型的领导者将会提供强有力的帮助。

WIN: What characteristics of leadership do you embrace and how do you champion other leaders with their own style?

Wang: I embrace resourcefulness, innovation, and strong execution. Having one foot in nutraceuticals and another in technology, I am constantly learning new things—which is why I champion any leader who thinks outside of the box and offers alternative or supplemental strategies to well-established industry practices. These types of leaders will always have a place by my side.

WIN：在实现性别平等方面，您对全球营养保健品行业提出的挑战是什么？

王总：我将其现有的女性劳动力发展成为经验丰富的商业领袖，以挑战全球营养保健品行业。我通过让更多女性担任管理和最高管理层职位，使其创意库多样化，来挑战该行业。保健品行业只能从扩大人才库中受益。

WIN: What is the challenge you’d issue to the global nutraceutical industry when it comes to achieving gender equality?

Wang: I challenge the global nutraceutical industry to develop its existing female workforce into experienced business leaders. I also challenge the industry to diversify its idea tanks by taking on more women in management and C-suite roles. The nutraceuticals industry can only benefit from widening its pool of talent.（END）