#7 Safra Catz

Rank 48

President, CFO, Oracle

Safra Catz has been the longtime president at Oracle and CFO as of April 2011. She has been confident on the software giant's future, saying that the company could this year post the highest operating margins in its history, and later that became the truth. She actually released the fourth quarter results three days early when it beat the analyst expectations. In June, Oracle launched its cloud computing service that could bring in $ 1 billion in revenue the first year. Catz joined Oracle back in 1999 and in this period she's overseen dozens of mega deals like the recent $ 1.9 billion purchase of human resources software company Taleo and the $ 7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2009. She is a trained lawyer from UPenn and spends many of her days in court, testifying on a contract dispute with Hewlett Packard and a copyright case with Google.