Dominating The Top: The Female CEO’s Doing ‘A Man’s Job’
More and more Women are making huge waves in Technology,Banking and Finance — industries which were once purely saturated with men and without a stiletto in sight. Until now…
But that was way back when. Now however, there’s an elite group of powerhouse Women dominating the main CEO and COO roles of top global companies. Here’s a few we can all be jealous of…… we mean aspire to.
Safra Catz — CO-CEO at Oracle
Proving the long game works, Safra started at Oracle as an executive 1999, then became a board member in 2001, co-president and CFO in 2011, until, finally, she was made CO-CEO on September 18th 2014.Often cited as the highest-paid female executive, with a reported remuneration of $51.7 million in 2011, Catz’s dealmaking skills have led to acquisitions in the billions. She’s also listed as #24 on Forbes Power Women list. Responsible for all manufacturing, finance, and legal decision — nothing too serious then.
Barbara Byrne — Vice Chairman of Investments at Barclays Capital
Byrne is supportive of rising women at Barclays, often bringing female staff members to client presentations and meetings.
“I work with women on my team and then say ‘over to you’ in the session,” Byrne tells American Banker Magazine. “Into the deep water they go, and they always swim. Confidence is born.”
Mary Callahan Erdoes — Chief Executive Officer of J.P. Morgan’s Asset Management division
With more than $2.2 trillion in assets under supervision, they call her the most powerful woman in finance.
Beth Mooney — Chairwoman and CEO of KeyCorp
Mooney is the only female CEO in the top 20 U.S. based banks and says she recalls when she was the only woman in manager meetings in the 1970s when she began at the Republic Bank of Texas. Mooney is aware that there are a lot of eyes on her.
“She wants to be successful for shareholders, as well as a role-model for women in the industry”, — American Banker.
Marissa Mayer — CEO Yahoo
Perhaps most famous was her decision to spend $1.1 billion on blogging site Tumblr. Yahoo’s CEO has been shaking up the technology industry ever since she took the job back in 2012.
Sheryl Sandberg — COO Facebook
Sandberg has masterminded Facebook’s profitability, in particular making sure that the social network remained the lead player when it came to mobile.
Right now a large part of Facebook’s revenue comes from mobile devices. Prior to her hire in 2012, it made nothing.
Susan Wojcicki — CEO YouTube
Susan Wojcicki has been involved in the growth of Google’s vast product family since the very start of the company. An infant Google was initially based in her garage way back in 1998.
Since then Susan has become one of the key driving forces behind YouTube’s growth and was named “the most important person in advertising” by Forbes back in 2012.
Angela Ahrendts — SVP retail, Apple
Ex-Burberry brains Angela Ahrendts recently made the move across to Apple where she has ended up as senior vice president of the company’s vast retail operations.
Angela manages both the online and street-level Apple setup.
Which Power Women inspire you? Comment below…
