Category: Feminist

Most powerful women in Europe, Middle East and Africa

They got the power!

  1. Ana Botín – Executive Chairman (Banco Santander)
  2. Alison Cooper – CEO (Imperial Tobacco)
  3. Annika Falkengren – President and CEO (SEB Group)
  4. Güler Sabancı – Chairman and Managing Director (Sabancı Holding)
  5. Ornella Barra – President and CEO of Global Wholesale and International Retail, EVP (Walgreens Boots Alliance)
  6. Patricia Barbizet – CEO and Chairman, Christie’s International; CEO, Artémis (Groupe Artémis)
  7. Carolyn McCall – CEO (EasyJet)
  8. Véronique Laury – CEO (Kingfisher)
  9. Moya Greene – CEO (Royal Mail)
  10. Dominique Senequier – President (Ardian)
  11. Maria Ramos – Group CEO (Barclays Africa)
  12. Dominique Leroy – CEO (Proximus)
  13. Nancy McKinstry – Chairman and CEO (Wolters Kluwer)
  14. Shelley Broader – CEO and President, EMEA (Walmart)
  15. Serpil Timuray – Regional CEO, AMAP (Vodafone)
  16. Lubna Olayan – Deputy Chairperson and CEO (Olayan Financing)
  17. Elizabeth Corley – Global CEO (Allianz Global Investors)
  18. Isabelle Ealet – Global Co-Head of Securities (Goldman Sachs)
  19. Isabelle Kocher – Deputy CEO and COO (Engie)
  20. Pascale Witz – Executive Vice President, Global Divisions and Strategic Development (Sanofi)
  21. Margarita Louis-Dreyfus – Chairperson of Supervisory Board (Louis Dreyfus Holding)
  22. Marina Berlusconi – Chairman, Mondadori Group; Executive Chairman, Fininvest (Fininvest Group)
  23. Rakefet Russak-Aminoach – CEO and President (Leumi Group)
  24. Emma Walmsley – CEO, GSK Consumer Healthcare (GSK)
  25. Ann Cairns – President, International Markets (MasterCard)

Source: Fortune

Photo by Christopher Sardegna

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The most powerful women in USA

Girl power!

  1. Mary Barra – CEO (General Motors)
  2. Indra Nooyi – CEO and Chairman (PepsiCo)
  3. Ginni Rometty – CEO, Chairman, and President (IBM)
  4. Marillyn Hewson – CEO, Chairman, and President (Lockheed Martin)
  5. Ellen Kullman – CEO and Chairman (DuPont)
  6. Abigail Johnson – CEO and President (Fidelity Investments)
  7. Meg Whitman – CEO, Chairman, and President (Hewlett-Packard)
  8. Sheryl Sandberg – COO (Facebook)
  9. Irene Rosenfeld – CEO and Chairman (Mondelez International)
  10. Phebe Novakovic – CEO and Chairman (General Dynamics)
  11. Carol Meyrowitz – CEO and Chairman (TJX Companies)
  12. Safra Catz – Co-CEO (Oracle)
  13. Lynn Good – CEO and President (Duke Energy)
  14. Helena Foulkes – President, CVS/pharmacy; EVP (CVS Health)
  15. Rosalind Brewer – CEO and President, Sam’s Club (Walmart)
  16. Angela Ahrendts – SVP, Retail and Online Stores (Apple)
  17. Ursula Burns – CEO and Chairman (Xerox)
  18. Marissa Mayer – CEO and President (Yahoo)
  19. Susan Wojcicki – CEO, YouTube (Google)
  20. Pam Nicholson – CEO and President (Enterprise Holdings)
  21. Cathy Engelbert – CEO (Deloitte LLP)
  22. Heather Bresch – CEO (Mylan)
  23. Debra Reed – CEO and Chairman (Sempra Energy)
  24. Denise Morrison – CEO and President (Campbell Soup)
  25. Susan Cameron – CEO and President (Reynolds American)
  26. Ruth Porat – SVP and CFO (Google and Alphabet)
  27. Carrie Tolstedt – Senior EVP of Community Banking (Wells Fargo)
  28. Sandra Peterson – Group Worldwide Chairman (Johnson & Johnson)
  29. Mary Erdoes – CEO, J.P. Morgan Chase Asset Management (J.P. Morgan Chase)
  30. Judith McKenna – EVP and COO, Walmart U.S. (Walmart)
  31. Marianne Lake – CFO (J.P. Morgan Chase)
  32. Kathleen Murphy – President, Personal Investing (Fidelity Investments)
  33. Margaret Keane – CEO and President (Synchrony Financial)
  34. Barbara Rentler – CEO (Ross Stores)
  35. Bridget Van Kralingen – SVP, IBM Global Business Services (IBM)
  36. Carolyn Tastad – Group President, North America (Procter & Gamble)
  37. Ann-Marie Campbell – President, Southern Division (Home Depot)
  38. Michelle Gloeckler – EVP, Consumables and Health and Wellness; U.S. Manufacturing Lead (Walmart)
  39. Shari Ballard – President of U.S. Retail and Chief Human Resources Officer (Best Buy)
  40. Crystal Hanlon – President, Northern Division (Home Depot)
  41. Jane Fraser – CEO of Citigroup Latin America (Citigroup)
  42. Kathleen Kennedy – President, Lucasfilm (Walt Disney)
  43. Diane Bryant – SVP and General Manager, Data Center Group (Intel)
  44. Lynne Doughtie – CEO and Chairman (KPMG U.S.)
  45. Ilene Gordon – CEO, Chairman, and President (Ingredion)
  46. Debra Crew – President and Chief Commercial Officer, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (Reynolds American)
  47. Kim Lubel – CEO, Chairman, and President (CST Brands)
  48. Beth Mooney – CEO and Chairman (KeyCorp)
  49. Sheri S. McCoy – CEO (Avon Products)
  50. Beth Comstock – Vice Chair (General Electric)

Source: Fortune

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5 brilliant female coders who made history!

Women that changed the tech world

• Ada Lovelace

The daughter of British poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was a Victorian mathematician. She worked with Charles Babbage on his calculating machines – he called her the “enchantress of numbers”.

• Joan Clarke

 Joan Clarke worked alongside Alan Turing at Bletchley Park – the British codebreaking centre during World War Two.

• Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton was director of software engineering for the project that wrote the code for the Apollo Guide Computer (AGC).

• Grace Hopper

Rear Admiral Dr Grace Murray Hopper pioneered the development of accessible computer programming languages written in English.

• The ENIAC women

A group of six young women (Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman) who developed the first all-electronic, programmable computer as part of the US Army’s World War Two effort. When the ENIAC was first unveiled, the women received no recognition.

Photo by Benjamin Child

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