Mary Barra

Mary Barra Fortune’s Most Powerful Women

Mary Barra
Mary Barra
Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi

Fortune's Most Powerful Women list

NumberNameOrganisation
1Mary BartaGeneral Motors
2Indra NooyiPepsiCo
3Marilyn HewsonLockheed Martin
4Ginni RomettyIBM
5Abigail JohnsonFidelity Investments
6Sheryl SanbergFacebook
7Meg WhitmanHewlett Packward
8Phebe NovakovicGeneral Dynamic
9Irene RosenfieldMondelez International
10Safra CatzOracle

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.

NoNameCompany Industry
14Wang Ling MartelloNestleFood manufacturing
34Jennifer LiBaiduInternet search giant
36Jean LiuDidi ChuxingRide-hailing service
37Tsai (patty) Pei-ChunPou ChenBiggest Branded footwear maker
39Alison BrittainWhitbreadCosta Coffe shops and budget hotel Premier Inn
40Erica MannBayerGerman Pharmaceutical
45Anne RichardsM&G InvestmentsFinance
50Linda HasenfratzLinamarCanadian Manufacturing firm