Gold Magazine January - February 2014, Issue 34 | Page 12

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The 10 Biggest US Companie

Run by Women

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hen
Mary
Barra
takes
over
at General Motors
as CEO
on January 15, she will join

Top 10
1. IBM “Ginni” Rometty
CEO: Virginia

Company value: $192.7 billion
Rometty took on the role of CEO
of International Business Machines
in January 2012, having joined
the company in 1981 and held
numerous leadership roles at the
multinational technology and consulting giant, which has more than
430,000 employees.

the elite ranks of women
at the top of the biggest
companies in the USA.
Before becoming the automaker’s first female CEO,
Barra, 51, was executive
vice president for Global

Mondelēz is a world leader in
chocolate, biscuits, gum, candy,
coffee and powdered beverages,
with brands such as Cadbury,
Oreo, Halls and Trident.

4. DuPont
CEO: Ellen Kullman

Product Development and
Global Purchasing and
Supply Chain. She began
her career at GM in 1980
as a co-op student at the
Pontiac Motor Division.
Women still make up less

that 5% of the CEOs of the
country’s biggest corporations. Below is CNBC’s list
of the women who run the
10 highest-valued US corporations, based on market
capitalisation.

6. Lockheed Martin
CEO: Marillyn A. Hewson

Company value: $44.5 billion
CEO of the world’s largest defence
company, Hewson has been the
CEO and president of Lockheed
Martin since Jan. 1, 2013. She has
worked at Lockheed Martin for
30 years in several key corporate
executive roles and leadership
positions.

Company value: $56.9 billion
Following a three-month sti