\n\tCarole Bartz: Say what you will about her strategy as Yahoo! CEO, this the third company where she has made a difference (after Autodesk and Sun).
\n\tShona Brown: As senior vice president of business operations, Brown has brought
\n\tadult supervision the Google team since 2003.
\n\tUrsula Burns: The first African-American woman to head a Fortune 500 company,
\n\tthe Xerox CEO was hand-picked by her successor, Anne Mulcahy.
\n\tSafra Catz: She is one of Larry Ellison’s most loyal managers; on the board for a
\n\tdecade and president for the past seven years.
\n\tDonna Dubinsky: As the CEO of Palm and later Handspring, she was at the
\n\tforefront of the mobile computing movement.
\n\tJudy Estrin: A serial entrepreneur, she exploded stereotypes by co-founding four
\n\tcompanies Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, Precept Software
\n\tand Packet Design.
\n\tAnne Mulcahy (left): The former CEO credited with helping Xerox recover from the brink
\n\tof bankruptcy.
\n\tAnn Livermore: Even though she was passed over as CEO successor, the career HP
\n\temployee has ably led HP Enterprise Services since 2004.
\n\tVirginia Rometty: The IBM Senior Vice President and Group Executive for Sales,
\n\tMarketing and Strategy manages IBM’s revenue: $99 billion+ in 2010.
\n\tSheryl Sandberg: The Facebook COO was recruited from Google — where she
\n\thelped found its philanthropic organization.
\n\tLinda Sanford: The IBM Senior Vice President is bringing IBM’s internal IT into the era of cloud computing.
\n\tPadmasree Warrior: Currently the Chief Technology Officer of Cisco, Warrior
\n\tpreviously held the same title at Motorola.
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