List of female top executives
The world average of female top executives is 8 percent. Thailand has the highest proportion of female CEOs in the world, with 30 percent of companies employing female CEOs, followed by the People's Republic of China, with 19 percent.[1] In the European Union the figure is 9 percent and in the United States it's 5 percent.[1]
Female CEOs
A number of women have risen to become top executives of major corporations. Below is an incomplete list of such women.
- Brenda Barnes, former CEO of Sara Lee
- Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM
- Jhane Barnes, owner of her own fashion design company
- Angela Braly, President and CEO of WellPoint
- Liz Claiborne, Chairperson and CEO of Liz Claiborne, Inc.
- Zoe Cruz, Co-President of Morgan Stanley
- Patricia Dunn, former Chairman of Hewlett Packard
- Annika Falkengren, CEO of SEB, Sweden
- Carly Fiorina, former Chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard
- Linda Hasenfratz - CEO of Linamar
- Andrea Jung, Chairman and CEO of Avon Products
- Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, President and CEO of PepsiCo
- Ursula Burns, CEO and Chairman of Xerox
- Marianne Nivert, former CEO of Telia (now TeliaSonera), Sweden
- Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods
- Patricia Russo, CEO of Lucent
- Güler Sabancı, CEO of Sabanci Group, Turkey
- Mary Sammons, President and CEO of Rite Aid
- Martha Stewart, former CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
- Belinda Stronach, former President and CEO of Magna International
- Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, present CEO of Hewlett Packard
- Laura Wade-Gery, CEO of Multi-channel at Marks & Spencer, former CEO of Tesco.com
- Clara Furse, former CEO of London Stock Exchange
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