Women of tech

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Carole Bartz

Carole 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).
Shona Brown

Shona Brown: As senior vice president of business operations, Brown has brought
adult supervision the Google team since 2003.
Ursula Burns

Ursula Burns: The first African-American woman to head a Fortune 500 company,
the Xerox CEO was hand-picked by her successor, Anne Mulcahy.
Safra Catz

Safra Catz: She is one of Larry Ellison’s most loyal managers; on the board for a
decade and president for the past seven years.
Donna Dubinsky

Donna Dubinsky: As the CEO of Palm and later Handspring, she was at the
forefront of the mobile computing movement.
Judy Estrin

Judy Estrin: A serial entrepreneur, she exploded stereotypes by co-founding four
companies Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, Precept Software
and Packet Design.
Anne Mulcahy

Anne Mulcahy (left): The former CEO credited with helping Xerox recover from the brink
of bankruptcy.
Ann Livermore

Ann Livermore: Even though she was passed over as CEO successor, the career HP
employee has ably led HP Enterprise Services since 2004.
Virginia Rometty

Virginia Rometty: The IBM Senior Vice President and Group Executive for Sales,
Marketing and Strategy manages IBM’s revenue: $99 billion+ in 2010.
Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg: The Facebook COO was recruited from Google -- where she
helped found its philanthropic organization.
Linda Sanford

Linda Sanford: The IBM Senior Vice President is bringing IBM’s internal IT into the era of cloud computing.
Padmasree Warrior

Padmasree Warrior: Currently the Chief Technology Officer of Cisco, Warrior
previously held the same title at Motorola.