The
technology world has always been very competitive and fast-paced and
male-dominated. But the equation is changing. A lot of women can be seen
making a show at the top levels in tech world. There are many women
personalities who made their way up into great positions. Let’s take a look at the top 15 of them who got featured in Forbes Top 100 Powerful Women in the world.
#15 Sun YafangRank 91
Chair, Huawei Technologies
Sun Yafang led Huawei to gain $1.8 billion in net profits in 2011. Her leadership is in talks all over the world. The International Telecommunication Union awarded Sun with the World Telecommunication and Information Society Award in May of 2012. She has been the chairwoman of Huawei since 1999,
#14 Weili DaiRank 89
Co-founder, Marvell Technology Group
Dai is the only woman co-founder of an American semiconductor company. The U.S.-educated "geek" who hails from China co-founded Marvell Technology Group with her husband, Sehat Sutardja in 1995. The company with 6000 employees and annual revenue of $ 3.4 billion is one of the world's leading producers of "fabless" semiconductors. It has clients like Apple, Samsung, Toshiba and Western Digital. She has a goal to make the California based Marvell, the biggest semiconductor company in China. “It's important for us to stay in Silicon Valley. That's where the entire eco-system of great talent and technologies resides,” says Wei, adding that over 1,600 Marvell employees are based in Shanghai and a second China campus will open soon. She also supports women’s participation in technology, STEM education for girls. An active philanthropist, her company has a major partnership with the One Laptop per Child campaign.
#13 Mary MeekerRank 84
General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Meeker has been holding court in Silicon Valley for nearly two decades now. In 2011 the famed Morgan Stanley analyst became a partner at Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers. This step, which she took, landed her at No. 42 on FORBES 2012 Midas List of VC royalty. But it is her reputation for a clear vision in the tech industry that makes her a Power Woman. She earned the title of “The Queen of the Net” when she wrote "The Internet Report" in 1995. More lately her 2012 Internet Trend Report put just about every industry on alert. Her persuasive argument urged leaders to re-imagine nearly everything about their businesses in no uncertain terms from advertising, to mobile to media consumption. Meeker serves on the board of Square and is involved in KPCB's investments in Twitter, Groupon, Spotify, Jawbone and One King's Lane.
#12 Kiran Mazumdar-ShawRank 80
Founder, Chair, Biocon Ltd.
India's first biotech entrepreneur, Mazumdar founded Biocon in 1978 when she was just 25 years old after partnering with an Irish firm to create industrial enzymes. Biocon is the only the second Indian firm to list a $1 billion IPO on its first day of trading and is currently India’s eleventh-largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalization ($66.8 Billion). Big companies are partnering with Biocon for the development and commercialization of its oral insulin product IN-105, which is currently undergoing late-stage clinical trials. Other than featuring in this list, Shaw was recognized as India's Global Woman of the Year by Asia's healthcare magazine Pharmaleaders.
#11 Chua Sock KoongRank 74
Group CEO, SingTel
Koong's vision for her company SingTel is "To be Asia Pacific's best multimedia solutions group." With a customer base of 445 million, Singtel operations are spread in 26 countries and employ 23,000 individuals. Chua recently guided the company in launching superfast 4G mobile broadband services in Singapore and introducing PowerON Compute, a hybrid cloud computing service, in Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong. She started working in SingTel as a Treasurer in 1989, rising in the company to serve as CFO and Group CFO and CEO, International. She has always kept innovation high in the priority list and concentrates on bringing new talent into SingTel from outside industries.
#10 Sue GardnerRank 70
Executive Director, WikiMedia Foundation
Wikipedia pre- and post-Sue Gardner is two completely different organizations. Gardner brought a major change in WikiMedia when she arrived. In 2007, WikiMedia had only 10 employees and was raising less than $ 3 million annually. In 2011, Wikimedia's number of donors had increased ten times over, raising $ 23 million. Gardner is focused on expanding Wikipedia's scope for readers and contributors, especially in the global South. In 2012, she partnered with Orange and Telenor, which is two European telecommunications companies, in a move which will provide Wikipedia free of data charges to millions of users across Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. She even led the full-day blackout in protest against SOPA, one of the only major websites to do so. Gardner's roots are in journalism and also graduating from Ryerson University with a journalism degree and acting as head of Canada's national public broadcaster, CBC.CA.
#9 Padmasree WarriorRank 58
Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Cisco Systems
As Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at the largest maker of computer-networking gear, Warrior is responsible for all deals activity as one of the most acquisitive firms in technology reconfigures its business strategy. She took this role in June, after serving five years as CTO. Some insiders hinted that she's being groomed for the top spot. CEO John Chambers has said that Cisco is actively working on succession planning. Before joining Cisco in 2007, she was CTO at Motorola. The engineer is a prolific tweeter: the executive has over 1.4 million followers and she keeps them up to date on company milestones, industry trends and cute pictures of her family.
#8 Cher WangRank 56
Co-founder and Chair, HTC
As the co-founder and chairman of HTC, Wang's had a rough year. Her company faced a financial hit and a stiff competition and patent wars with Apple and Samsung. Second quarter financial results show HTC revenues down 50% year-over-year and her family fortune gone down by $3 billion. But at the company's 15th anniversary celebration she said that HTC isn't afraid of challenges. The company mantra for 2012 seems just as buoyant: "Only the Street worries for us. We're not worried for ourselves." Cher Wang, the daughter of the late Taiwanese business icon Y.C. Wang, stepped into the political fray in Taiwan's presidential election in January by endorsing the China policy of the ruling Nationalist Party.
#7 Safra CatzRank 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.
#6 Susan WojcickiRank 25
Senior Vice President, Google
Susan Wojcicki is the woman behind all of Google's ad products, AdWords and AdSense, Analytics and DoubleClick, and was responsible for 96% of the company's $37.9 billion revenue in 2011. She and her team are termed in Google as "The SMARTASS". The mother of four has deep Google roots: she rented her garage to Sergey Brin and Larry Page and their nascent search engine in 1998. She was the company's 16th employee. Her sister is the wife of Brin.
#5 Marissa MayerRank 21
CEO, Yahoo
Google's 20th employee and the 1st woman stunned the tech world in July when she announced she was leaving the Google to become the new CEO of Yahoo!. Mayer said that she "had an amazing time at Google but ultimately it was a reasonably easy decision to take the top job at Yahoo!.” The 37-year-old joined Google in 1999 shortly after achieving a computer science masters from Stanford University. She is one of the youngest women in this list and joined her first corporate board in 2012: Walmart. On the same day she announced the move to Yahoo!, Mayer made another announcement to the press that she's pregnant and expecting her child this October.
#4 Meg WhitmanRank 18
CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Whitman’s company HP shares are down nearly 25% this year making it the lowest performer in the Dow Jones industrial average. At a conference in June she said it might take "four or five years" to fix the company. Her incentive stock options could be worth millions but only if the stock price increases 40% in the next 24 months under her leadership. She turned down Warren Buffett's invitation in 2011 to join the Giving Pledge, in which billionaires agree to donate half their fortune to charity. Her net worth has grown $300 million since September 2011 thanks to a 50% hike in the value of her eBay shares.
#3 Ursula BurnsRank 17
Chairman and CEO, Xerox
Burns has been the CEO of Xerox since 3 years and is still trying to reframe it as a services business rather than a seller of printers and copiers. Services like managing electronic ticket transactions, road tolls and parking meters now bring in half of all revenues, and Burns sees continued growth through small acquisitions of health care and processing technologies. After beginning her career at Xerox in 1980 as a summer engineering intern, Burns climbed the ranks to become the first black woman ever to run a major U.S. corporation. This year she spoke out against Augusta National Golf Club's male-only membership policy, saying "it's ridiculous" and, if unchanged, Xerox wouldn't sponsor the Masters on her watch.
#2 Ginny RomettyRank 15
President and CEO, IBM
In October 2011, 30-year IBM veteran Rometty was made the CEO, the first woman in the company. She is implementing a five-year strategy to use new markets like cloud computing and business analytics software to drive $20 billion of revenue growth by 2015, which she believes is possible. She became the center of the conversation this year when historic Augusta National Golf Club maintained its controversial male-only policy and didn't invite her. Rometty started at IBM in 1981 as a systems engineer and climbed to head of global sales, where she oversaw results in 170 markets around the world.
#1 Sheryl SandbergRank 10
COO, Facebook
After four years as Facebook's COO and leading the company through its $100 billion IPO in May, Sandberg was named to the social network's board of directors in June. She is Facebook's first female board member and owns nearly $1 billion of unvested stock in the company. The Harvard MBA served as chief of staff for the U.S. Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton, and managed Google's online global sales and operations as a vice president. She says, “I don't believe in 'having it all but I do believe in women and men having both a successful career and family. The more women we get into positions of power, the more likely we'll get that.”
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