The 10 Most Successful Woman

Entrepreneurs of the Decade

Debrah Lee Charatan

Women currently occupy 22 CEO

positions at S&P 500 companies

and female owned businesses

account for $2.5 trillion in sales.

Businesses led by women are

some of the top performing

organizations at a global level and

here are ten individuals who

contribute to that monumental

success.

Business and Technology

Susan Wojcicki

She spearheaded Google’s

YouTube acquisition and

she’s helped the growth of

the video platform that

brings in $4 billion in

revenue.

CEO of YouTube

Sheryl Sandberg

Sandberg’s contribution to

the technology space has

gone unmeasured. Her

vision of Facebook

becoming a pioneer in the

digital advertising sector

came to fruition behind her

hard work.

COO of Facebook

Mary Barra

In her second year as the

head of the nation’s largest

auto-maker, Barra has led

the $156-billion-in-sales

company out from behind

the dark cloud of their 2014

ignition-switch recall.

CEO of General Motors

Indra Nooyi

Nooyi is having the

definition of a successful

decade as she’s in her ninth

year atop the $66.6 billion

PepsiCo. She lead the

company to see an

impressive 4% organic

revenue growth in 2014.

CEO and Chairman, PepsiCo

Tory Burch

Since its launch in 2004, the

Tory Burch brand has

grown to 125 free-standing

stores and their line is sold

in 3,000 department and

specialty stores.

CEO of Tory Burch

Entertainment and Media

Beyoncé

Beyonce lead the women’s

singing group Destiny’s

Child in the mid-1990s.

She’s grown to be a

massively supported solo

artist and in 2014 she was

named #1 on Forbes’

celebrity list.

Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer and Actress.

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey continues to

make huge leaps with the

media empire she’s built

which has now ventured

into the film production

industry.

Media Proprietor, Producer and Talk Show Host

Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington

launched the Huffington

Post in 2005 and later sold

the digital publication to

AOL in 2011. As, editor-in-

chief, she hopes to expand

the readership.

Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post.

Real Estate and Healthcare

Zhang Xin

SOHO China is a prominent

real estate development firm

in China that went public in

2007. Xin has lead SOHO

China towards double-digit

growth and profits in her

time with the firm.

Co-Founder of SOHO China

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

She began Biocon, an Indian

biopharma company, out of

her garage. Biocon became

only the second Indian

company to reach $1 billion

on its first trading day when

they went public in 2004.

Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon Limited

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