Running
the Show |
| | Name
| Company | Achievement |
| 1. |
Carly Fiorina
Chief
Executive
| Hewlett-Packard
(HPQ) | At
the helm of H-P's controversial
buyout of Compaq. |
| 2. |
Margaret
C. Whitman
Chief Executive | eBay
(EBAY) | Turned
eBay
from an online bazaar to an international powerhouse. |
| 3. |
Andrea Jung
Chairman | Avon
Products
(AVP) | Modernized
Avon's business, boosted bottom line. |
| 4. | Michelle
Peluso
President, CEO | Travelocity
| Tapped
to run
Travelocity at 32 after developing travel seller site59.com. |
| 5. | Anne
Mulcahy
Chief Executive | Xerox
(XRX) | Is
leading Xerox back from the
brink of bankruptcy. |
| 6. |
Rose
Marie Bravo
Chief Executive | Burberry Group | Revamped
Burberry;
Is now the highest paid woman in European business |
| 7. | Ann
Fudge
Chairman and CEO | Young
&
Rubicam | Only
African-American
woman to run a global advertising firm. |
| 8. | Patricia
Russo
Chairman and CEO | Lucent
Technologies
(LU) | Only
woman to
run a major telecommunications company. |
| 9. | Xie
Qihua
Chairwoman | Shanghai
Baosteel | Heads
China's
largest iron and steel producer. |
| 10. | Debra
A. Cafaro
President and CEO | Ventas
(VTR) | Took
the health-care
firm from insolvency to success. |
| 11. |
Anne Lauvergeon
Chief Executive | Areva
| Plans
to take
her nuclear power and waste company public. |
| 12. | Ho
Ching
Executive Director and CEO | Temasek Holdings | CEO
of Singapore's
state investment company and also married to the Prime Minister. |
| 13. | Marjorie
Scardino
Chief Executive | Pearson
(PSO) | Led
Pearson
through $7.1 billion in acquisitions to become the
world's
largest educational publisher. |
| |
| In
Line to Lead |
| | Name | Company | Achievement |
| 1. | Karen
Katen
President | Pfizer
Global
Pharmaceuticals
(PFE) | Launched
Pfizer's
first blood-pressure pill and anti-inflammatory medicine,
as well as Zoloft, Zithromax and Norvasc years later. |
| 2. | Marjorie
Magner
Chairman and CEO | Citigroup
(C) | The
first female
M.B.A. hired at New York Chemical Bank; Now overseas
more
than 150,000 employees in 54 countries. |
| 3. | Indra
Nooyi
President and CFO | PepsiCo
(PEP) | One
of the lead
negotiators on the $13.8 billion acquisition of Quaker
Oats
and its prized Gatorade brand. |
| 4. |
Zoe Cruz
Global Head of Fixed Income | Morgan
Stanley
(MWD) | Master
of the
bond world, she received $16.1 million in compensation
in
2003 -- more than Morgan Stanley's CEO. |
| 5. | Brenda
Barnes
President and COO | Sara
Lee
(SLE) | She
left the
business world for her family six years ago, only to
return
as an example of the balance between work and family. |
| 6. | Sharon
Allen
Chairman | Deloitte
& Touche | The
highest
ranking female in the accounting Big Four, and an advocate
for women in the workplace. |
| 7. | Susan
Arnold
Vice Chairman | Procter
&
Gamble
(PG) | She
runs all
the beauty brands and is part of a three-person pool
to succeed
the CEO. |
| 8. | Safra
Catz
Co-President | Oracle
(ORCL) | Larry
Ellison
credits her with the idea behind the PeopleSoft hostile takeover. |
| 9. | Linda
Cook
Executive Director, Gas and Power, Royal Dutch/Shell Group | Shell
Gas &
Power | In
charge of
the next frontier for Shell -- expanding its global
natural-gas
and power business. |
| 10. | Gina
Centrello
President and Publisher | Random
House
Publishing Group | From
proofreader
of legal books to publisher of William Faulkner literature,
she has climbed steadily. |
| 11. |
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
President, Product Development | Genentech
(DNA) | An
oncologist,
she was the architect behind the company's cancer-drug development. |
| 12. | Linda
Dillman
Executive Vice President | Wal-Mart
Stores
(WMT) | The
power behind
Wal-Mart's use of technology, presiding over a data-storage
system second only to the Pentagon's in size. |
| 13. | Fumiko
Hayashi
President | BMW
Tokyo | Made
her way
in Japan's male dominated business world by selling
so many
cars she couldn't be denied. |
| 14. | Ann
Moore
Chairman and CEO | Time
Inc. | Oversees
134
magazines that reach 300 million readers and is considered
the most powerful figure in magazine publishing. |
| 15. | Sallie
Krawcheck
Chief Financial Officer | Citigroup
(C) | Her
latest promotion
has Wall Street buzzing about whether it may lead to
a higher
role. |
| 16. | Jenny
Ming
President | Old
Navy
(GPS) | In
just 10
years, has helped create one of America's biggest retail brands. |
| 17. | Vanessa
Castagna
CEO, Stores, Catalog, Internet | J.C.
Penney
(JCP) | A
key player
in Penney's turnaround after overhauling its merchandising
process and centralizing its buying operations. |
| 18. | Wu
Xiaoling
Deputy governor | People's
Bank
of China | Arguably
the
most influential woman in China's financial system. |
| 19. | Yang
Mianmian
President | Haier
Group | Helped
build
Haier into the leading home-appliance maker in China. |
| 20. | Mellody
Hobson
President | Ariel
Capital
Management | Leads
a firm
that bills itself as the largest African-American money
manager,
with more than $18 billion under management. |
| 21. | Naina
Lal Kidwai
Deputy CEO, India | HSBC | Has
helped Indian
companies raise billions at home and abroad. |
| 22. | Myrtle
Potter
President of Commercial Operations | Genentech
(DNA) | Oversaw
a major
expansion at the biotech company, where revenue has
almost
doubled since she joined. |
| 23. | Doreen
Toben
Chief Financial Officer | Verizon
Communications
(VZ) | Executive
at
the nation's largest phone company, with 21 years experience
in different roles. |
| 24. | Yoon
Song Yee
Vice President | SK
Telecom | At
28, she's
the highest-ranking woman executive at South Korea's
largest
telecom service provider. |
| |
| The
Inheritors |
| | Name | Company | Achievement |
| 1. | Abigail
P. Johnson
President | Fidelity
Management
& Research Co. | She
steered
Fidelity through the share-trading scandals. Now she's
trying
to reverse a market-share slide at the nation's largest
mutual-fund
company. |
| 2. | Ana
Patricia Botin
Chairwoman | Banco
Espanol
de Credito | A
natural candidate
to succeed her father at Banco Santander, she could
become
one of the most powerful women in global finance. |
| 3. | Shari
Redstone
President | National
Amusements
| Expected
to
have a growing influence at Viacom, the media conglomerate
headed by her father. |
| 4. | Maria
Asuncion Aramburuzabala
Vice Chairwoman | Grupo Modelo | Has
successfully
built upon the fortune left by her father, who founded
Mexico's
leading beer company, Grupo Modelo. She is Mexico's
richest
woman. |
| 5. |
Elizabeth Murdoch
Chairman, CEO | Shine | Daughter
of
Rupert Murdoch, she is making it in the media world
on her
own and is poised to be an executive at News Corp. |
| |
| The
Owners |
| | Name | Company | Achievement |
| 1. | Oprah
Winfrey
| Harpo
Inc. | Head
of a successful
media empire that includes her own TV show, O magazine
and
Oxygen, a women's cable network. |
| 2. | Kim
Sung Joo | Sungjoo
International,
Sungjoo Design Tech & Distribution | Controls
South
Korea's two largest luxury-good retailers, with 90
outlets
in the country. |
| 3. | Fredy
Bush | Xinhua
Financial
Network | Built
a China-based
financial news service, which today distributes to
more than
1,000 business clients globally. |
| 4. | Dolly
Parton | Dollywood | Reigns
over
a rapidly expanding entertainment empire stretching
from Florida
to California with an estimated $200 million annual revenue. |
| |
| The
Grant Giver |
| | Name | Company | Achievement |
| 1. | Patty
Stonesifer
President and Co-Chairman | Bill
and Melinda
Gates Foundation | Manages
the
world's largest philanthropy, with assets of $27 billion. |
| |
| The
Watchdogs |
| | Name | Company | Achievement |
| 1. | Elizabeth
Grossman
Acting Regional Attorney | Equal
Employment
Opportunity Commission | Led
the lengthy
sex-bias fight against Morgan Stanley, which resulted
in a
landmark $54 million settlement. |
| 2. |
Amy Butte
Chief Financial Officer | NYSE | At
age 36,
the youngest woman ever to become an executive vice
president
at the Big Board. |
| 3. | Linda
Chatman Thomsen
Deputy Director of Enforcement | SEC
| Seen
as a likely
successor to the SEC's director of enforcement after
overseeing
the agency's probe of Enron. |
