These Powerful Women Running World's Biggest Companies
Bangalore: Women make up only 5 percent of the CEOs in S&P 500 companies, Standard & Poor’s stock market index based on the market capitalization of 500 leading companies. The number is growing up, and hit a record 20 when Marissa Mayer took the helm at Yahoo last year. Here is the list of 5 women CEO who are heading biggest tech companies as compiled CNBC.
Virginia Rometty
Company: IBM
The current Chairwoman and CEO of IBM, Virginia Rometty is the first woman to head the company. She has been recognized in Fortune Magazine’s ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Business’ for eight consecutive years. There’s more to it; Rometty was ranked 15th on Forbes Magazine’s ‘World’s 100 Most Powerful Women,’ and also made it to the ‘Time 100’ in 2012. Rometty’s name was included in the 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets magazine in September 2012.
