6. Meg Whitman - President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard - Age: 55
Ms. Whitman has served as HP’s President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2011 when she replaced the ousted Leo Apotheker. She takes the reigns at a time when HP is involved in undoing the damage of Apotheker’s tenure including a massive u-turn in reversing the much criticized move towards a software only provider. Ms. Whitman has previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay Inc., from 1998 to March 2008 before she undertook a failed bid in the California gubernatorial race.
7. Ursula Burns - CEO of Xerox - Age: 53
A mechanical engineer with a masters degree from Columbia University, Burns has headed up Xerox since 2009. With an exceptional reputation for her understanding and experienced in the technology sector, part of Burns’s mandate has been to make Xerox more profitable by adding services, so Burns has spent billions acquiring services companies, mainly in printing and document preparation, but also in services important to enterprises.
8. Virginia Rometty - CEO designate of IBM - Age 54
Starting Jan. 1, Rometty, now IBM’s EVP for strategy, gets the ring at the No. 2 computer services company. Rometty, is well-regarded as a strategist and got high marks helping IBM manage its giant takeover of Pricewaterhouse Cooper’s consulting. The N.Y.-based giant has never had a woman CEO since it was founded in 1911, so Rometty’s touch will be different, for sure. But with more than 325,000 colleagues, IBMers are known to have changed over the years when the typical IBMer was a middle-aged man with a white shirt.
10. Angela F. Braly - President and CEO Of WellPoint Inc - Age 50
9. Ellen Kullman - CEO of DuPont - Age 55
The first woman to head up the chemical giant. Kullman, has a B.S. in mechanical engineering . In May she completed her biggest move yet with the $6.4 billion acquisition of Danish food ingredient producer Danisco, shifting the chemical company more toward food
and nutrition. Analysts credit her with DuPont’s turnaround in the stock market: Shares have returned 99%, vs. 37% for the S&P, since she took over in 2009. After IBM and HP, DuPont’s market capitalization of $44.9 billion makes it among the biggest technology companies with a woman CEO. Kullman assumed office in 2009.
WellPoint is the largest health plan company in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Following several high-profile roles for the company, Angela she assumed the CEO role in June 1, 2007. With 34 million members, health insurer WellPoint touches one in nine Americans covered. Now she’s tapping into the Medicare market with the purchase of senior health care provider CareMore. Her challenge: translating customer growth into higher profits.
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