5 Top Performing Female CEOs


Bangalore: Only few hardworking and dedicated among the corporate crowd make to the position of a CEO and slowly and gradually, women are pacing into an increasing share of executive posts at major corporations and research recommends that these corporations are performing well enough.

For example Grant Thornton’s 2012 International Business Report suggests that companies with more women employees on senior management teams or boards are probable to have higher stock growth and sales, as well as better returns on equity and invested capital. Here are top 5 female CEOs listed by Investopedia who have been a part of few of the world’s biggest business corporations.

1. Marissa Mayer

She was an ex-Google employee and has been in the tech industry for about 13 years. She was the first ever female engineer to join Google after completing university. As Google climbed the fortune ladder, Marissa too experienced rapid growth and change. She left Google as the Vice President of location and local services, a section in charge for products such as Google Maps. She has a net worth of approximately $300 million and her Yahoo! annual base salary is almost $1 million.

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