Mary Barra Fortune’s Most Powerful Women
Fortune's Most Powerful Women list
| Number | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary Barta | General Motors |
| 2 | Indra Nooyi | PepsiCo |
| 3 | Marilyn Hewson | Lockheed Martin |
| 4 | Ginni Rometty | IBM |
| 5 | Abigail Johnson | Fidelity Investments |
| 6 | Sheryl Sanberg | |
| 7 | Meg Whitman | Hewlett Packward |
| 8 | Phebe Novakovic | General Dynamic |
| 9 | Irene Rosenfield | Mondelez International |
| 10 | Safra Catz | Oracle |
Mary T. Barra 54, from Waterford, Michigan, US, a Stanford Graduate School of Business, retained the Fortune’s Most Powerful Woman after a year of “dramatic improvement” at the $152.4 billion in revenues of the auto giant, after she ably steered successfully through the ignition switch crisis that hit in 2014, ended operations in Russia and invested in ride-sharing company Lyft. She has held the CEO position since January 15, 2014, and is the first female CEO of a major global automaker.
Indra Nooyi, 60, Chennai, Indian-born, a graduate of Yale School of Management, PepsiCo, CEO and Chairman is featured among Fortune’s 51 Most Powerful Women list that is topped by Mary Barra, CEO and Chairman of General Motors. She is the only Indian-origin woman who was ranked second on the list both this year and 2015 and third in 2014. The list comprises 22 CEOs of major companies and the 2016 list has nine newcomers.
Nooyi, over the past 12 months, increased $63bn PepsiCo’s market capitalisation, 18 per cent to $155bn, as she cut $3bn cost over the past three years.
Singer Beyonce was ranked at the 51st place on the famous list. She made music history by becoming the first female artist to have 12 songs on the Billboard top 100 ( all on her sixth album, Lemonade) and also she successfully launched the Athleisure clothing brand Ivy Park
The 2016 Fortune’s International Most Powerful Women list from 19 countries with 16 per cent new names. The newcomers include two CEOs of British companies an executive at the world’s largest food company, two high-ranking executives of Chinese companies, the CEO of the world’s largest branded footwear maker, and executives at pharmaceutical and manufacturing giants.
| No | Name | Company | Industry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Wang Ling Martello | Nestle | Food manufacturing |
| 34 | Jennifer Li | Baidu | Internet search giant |
| 36 | Jean Liu | Didi Chuxing | Ride-hailing service |
| 37 | Tsai (patty) Pei-Chun | Pou Chen | Biggest Branded footwear maker |
| 39 | Alison Brittain | Whitbread | Costa Coffe shops and budget hotel Premier Inn |
| 40 | Erica Mann | Bayer | German Pharmaceutical |
| 45 | Anne Richards | M&G Investments | Finance |
| 50 | Linda Hasenfratz | Linamar | Canadian Manufacturing firm |