Ursula Burns

Chairman and CEO, Xerox

Ursula is a perfect example for an American success story. She joined Xerox where she worked as an intern and build her way up in the ladder till she became the first Afro-American woman to head a Fortune 5oo company. Ursula presided over the $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services,Xerox’s largest deal in history.

Caterina Fake

Cofounder, Flickr

Millions of people around the world will be thanking Flickr every time they upload an image into the website which save their space and manage their memories. But the credit goes to Caterina, who along with her then-husband Stewart Butterfield, invented the photo-sharing site, taking idea from their own business failure- Ludicorp a company which developed “Game Neverending”- a multiplayer online role playing game. Eventhough her first attempt went bankrupt, she made$35 million when Yahoo acquired Flickr in 2005. She recently launched Pinwheel, which lets you find and leave notes around the world.