帕特•沃尔茨

所在公司：ADM（Archer Daniels Midland）

职务：首席执行官

公司500强排名：122

    出生于西宾夕法尼亚州的帕特•沃尔茨自幼就对商界有着浓厚的兴趣。

    2006年，沃尔茨曾向《财富》杂志（Fortune）透露，“我母亲曾在学校当图书管理员，她觉得暑假是继续学习的好时节，”炎炎夏日，沃尔茨的暑假都泡在诸如亨氏（Heinz）番茄酱工厂和美国钢铁公司（U.S. Steel mill），她觉得生产过程奇妙无比。

    时间很快来到1974年，沃尔茨从宾州州立大学（Penn State University）毕业并取得了会计学学位。随后她进入匹兹堡市的安永会计事务所（Ernst & Young）担任咨询师。几年后跳槽到海湾石油公司（Gulf Oil）。

    1984年，海湾石油和雪佛龙（Chevron）合并之后，沃尔茨结识了很多新朋友并最终决定加入雪佛龙石油，负责公司的“下游”业务。

    虽然她认为自己已经具备就任首席执行官的条件，但是要等雪佛龙当时的CEO大卫•欧雷利退休还需数年的时间，因此，她在2006年2月毅然辞掉了那份工作。

    当年4月，史宾沙公司（Spencer Stuart）的汤姆•内福致电沃尔茨，商谈就任ADM公司首席执行官事宜。此后的事就人尽皆知了。

    除了担任ADM公司（Archer Daniels Midland）的首席执行官，沃尔茨同时还是宝洁公司（Procter & Gamble）以及美中商会（U.S.-China Business Council）董事会成员。对了，此外她还是3个孩子的母亲。

Patricia A. Woertz

Company: Archer Daniels Midland

Position: CEO

Global 500 Rank: 122

    Western-Pennsylvanian Patricia Woertz was interested in the corporate world from an early age.

    "Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education," Woertz told Fortune in 2006. Spending the sweaty vacation days in gems like a Heinz ketchup plant or a U.S. Steel mill, she found the production process fascinating.

    Fast forward to 1974. Woertz graduated from Penn State University with a degree in accounting. She became a consultant at Ernst & Young in Pittsburgh and moved to Gulf Oil several years later.

    After Gulf and Chevron merged in 1984, Woertz created many new contacts and eventually made a move to Chevron, taking charge of the company's "downstream" operation.

    Ready for a CEO position, but realizing that then-Chevron CEO David O'Reilly was several years from retiring, she stepped down from her position in February 2006.

    The following April, Tom Neff of Spencer Stuart called Woertz and discussed a CEO opportunity at ADM. The rest is history.

    As CEO, Woertz has led ADM while serving on the boards of directors of Procter & Gamble and the U.S.-China Business Council. Oh, and she's a mother to three children.

    安吉拉•布拉利

    所在公司：Wellpoint

    职务：首席执行官，总裁，董事长

    公司500强排名：135

    安吉拉•布莱利出生于达拉斯，在德州理工大学（Texas Tech University）获得学士学位之后继续前往南卫理公会大学法学院（Southern Methodist University School of Law）深造。

    三年前，布莱利曾回到她的本科母校，与大家分享了她的故事。在她看来，自己之所以能走上首席执行官的岗位，法学院的经历功不可没，尽管有点无心插柳的意味。

    “正是律师这一行业将我带到了蓝十字与蓝盾协会（Blue Cross Blue Shield），”布莱利说，“我当时就任该公司密苏里州的总法律顾问，之后担任该公司密苏里州的总裁，再之后成为了该公司母公司的总裁兼首席执行官”

    作为3个孩子的母亲，在公司中平步轻云并不容易。在家人的全力支持下，她成功地打理着WellPoint。2010年，该公司创造的运营收入已经超过578亿美元。

    Angela F. Braly

    Company: WellPoint, Inc.

    Position: CEO, president, chair

    Global 500 Rank: 135

    Born in Dallas, Angela Braly followed up her undergraduate years at Texas Tech University by heading to law school at Southern Methodist University School of Law.

    Three years ago, Braly returned to her undergraduate alma mater and shared that law school was a helpful, albeit incidental, factor in shaping her path to the CEO's chair.

    "It was practicing law that led me into the Blue Cross Blue Shield system," Braly said. "I became general counsel of Blue Cross Blue Shield in Missouri, then president in Missouri, and worked my way up to president and CEO of the parent company [WellPoint]."

    With three children, climbing the corporate ladder hasn't always been easy. But Braly's family has been supportive, allowing her to lead WellPoint, which generated operating revenue in excess of $57.8 billion in 2010.

卢英德

所在公司：百事公司（PepsiCo）

职务：首席执行官兼董事长

公司500强排名：137

    当年她还在耶鲁大学（Yale）商学院念书时，卢英德一贫如洗，连面试也拿不出件像样的衣服。她说她后来不得不穿着传统的纱丽去面试，因为她的朋友对她说，“如果他们不喜欢真实的你，他们就不值得你去为其卖命。”努伊最终得到了这份工作。

    卢英德最开始就职于一家印度纺织公司，之后又去过波士顿咨询集团（The Boston Consulting Group），摩托罗拉（Motorola）和ABB公司（Asea Brown Boveri）。

    她于1994年加入百事公司。2001年，努伊被任命为公司的总裁兼首席财务官。2006年10月，她成为百事公司的首席执行官。

    自从就任首席执行官以来，关于她创新精神的赞誉之词便不绝于耳。她一直致力于百事产品的多元化发展以及健康产品的开发，与此同时，她也一直关注着百事可乐，这一经典灌装饮料的发展。卢英德已婚，并育有两个孩子。

Indra K. Nooyi

Company: PepsiCo

Position: CEO & chair

Global 500 Rank: 137

    While a student at Yale's business school, Indra Nooyi found herself broke and outfit-less before an interview. Out of necessity, she says she wore a sari after being told by a friend, "If they don't hire you for who you are, then they don't deserve you." Nooyi got the job.

    Starting at a textile firm in India, Nooyi had stints at The Boston Consulting Group, Motorola, and Asea Brown Boveri.

    She joined PepsiCo in 1994. In 2001, Nooyi was made president and CFO at the company. In October 2006, she became PepsiCo's CEO.

    Nooyi has been lauded for her innovations since becoming CEO. She has focused on diversifying PepsiCo's offerings, focusing on healthy products while still promoting the classic sugar-in-a-can Pepsi cola. She is also married with two children.

伊雷妮•罗森菲尔德

所在公司：卡夫食品（Kraft）

职务：首席执行官兼董事长

公司500强排名：167

    多年前，当伊雷妮•罗森菲尔德还在康奈尔大学（Cornell）攻读心理学学位时，很难想象之后她竟然在食品和饮料行业摸爬滚打了29年。

    后来，罗森菲尔德又获得了市场营销和数据统计博士以及工商管理硕士学位，之后她曾就职于通用磨坊公司（General Mills），该公司1981年被卡夫公司兼并。

    她当时曾是卡夫公司一颗冉冉升起的新星，但最终她于2004年离开该公司并担任菲多利食品公司（Frito-Lay）的首席执行官。

    2006年，她杀回卡夫并担任其首席执行官一职并兼任董事会主席。2010年，她领导公司兼并了英国糖果巨人吉百利公司（Cadbury）。同年，公司营业收入达到480亿美元。

    罗斯菲尔德与菲利普育有两个孩子，埃里森和卡罗。前夫亡故后，她嫁给了现在的丈夫，投资银行家理查德•伊尔根。

Irene B. Rosenfeld

Company: Kraft

Position: CEO & chair

Global 500 Rank: 167

    Years ago, when Irene Rosenfeld was getting ready to graduate from Cornell with a degree in psychology, it would have seemed wild to think that she would come to spend 29 years of her life in the food and beverage industry.

    But after earning a Ph.D. in marketing and statistics and an MBA, Rosenfeld found herself at General Mills, which eventually became a part of Kraft in 1981.

    She was a rising star at Kraft, and ultimately decided to leave the company in 2004 to become the CEO and chair of Frito-Lay.

    In 2006, she returned to Kraft as their CEO and chair. She led the company in acquiring British candy giant Cadbury in 2010, and the company generated $48 billion in revenues that same year.

    Rosenfeld had two children, Allison and Carol, with her late husband, Phillip. She is now remarried to investment banker Richard Illgen.

埃尔森•汉斯

所在公司：太阳石油公司（Sunoco）

职务：首席执行官

公司500强排名：252

    据埃尔森•汉斯的母校莱斯大学（Rice University）透露，大学时代的她无所不能：她加入了学校第一支校际篮球队，参加过游行乐队，干过学生会还当过校报的体育栏目编辑。这一切可能为她今后的事业打下了良好的基础。

    1978年，埃尔森•汉斯从莱斯大学毕业后又在哈佛商学院（Harvard Business School）拿到了工商管理硕士学位，随后就职于能源巨头壳牌公司（Shell）。就在通往公司高层的通行证向她招手的时候，厄尔森汉斯意识到，要想继续留在公司，她和丈夫就得去欧洲工作。

    那时，总部位于费城的太阳石油公司向她抛出了首席执行官这一橄榄枝，这也使她成为了第一位统领石油巨头的女掌门。“这个职位对我来说再合适不过了”，2008年她曾对莱斯杂志（Rice Magazine）透露。“因为我在石油下游产业——石油及化工产品行业——已经打拼了28个年头，而这正是太阳石油公司的领域。”

Lynn L. Elsenhans

Company: Sunoco

Position: CEO

Global 500 Rank: 252

    According to Lynn Elsenhans' alma mater, Rice University, she did it all as a student: she was on the school's first women's intercollegiate basketball team, in the marching band, served on student government, and was the sports editor for the student newspaper. A case of foreshadowing, perhaps.

    After graduating from Rice in 1978, Elsenhans headed to Harvard Business School, earned her MBA, and ended up at energy giant Shell. As the keys to the corporate kingdom came within her reach, Elsenhans realized that she and her husband would have to move to Europe if she wanted to stay at the company.

    Around that time, Philadelphia-based Sunoco offered Elsenhans the CEO spot, making her the first female to run the oil giant. "It's a really good fit for me," she told Rice Magazine in 2008. "I worked for 28 years in the downstream part of the oil business -- oil and chemical products -- and that's what Sunoco does."

公司名：西太平洋银行（Westpac Banking）

职务：首席执行官兼执行董事

公司500强排名：254

    盖尔•凯利原籍南非，1997年她来到了澳大利亚。赴澳之前，她在南非一所政府学校担任历史教师。但她根本不喜欢这份工作。

    1980年，她的父亲通过朋友将她介绍到Nedcor银行工作，起初做出纳。1986年，她因怀孕休息了一段时间，并拿到了工商管理学位。1987年初她重新回到了工作岗位。

    随着南非政局动荡的加剧，凯利和她的家人决定迁往澳大利亚。

    2002年，凯利加入了圣乔治银行（St. George's Bank），此后平步青云，于当年成为了公司的首席执行官（前任首席执行官因心脏病去世）。在她5年半的任期内，银行净资产实现了翻番。由于其出色的业绩，2008年2月，她加入西太平洋银行。

    在凯利的掌管下，西太平洋银行于2008年收购圣乔治银行。作为4个孩子的母亲，凯利说她今天取得的成就完全归功于她丈夫不懈的支持。

所在公司：杜邦公司（DuPont）

职务：首席执行官兼董事长

公司500强排名：285

    柯爱伦于塔夫斯大学（Tufts）获得机械工程学士学位，之后于西北大学（Northwestern University）获得管理硕士学位。毕业后，她曾就职于通用电气（General Electric）。

    她于1988年加入杜邦，担任市场营销经理，在公司一呆就是20年。2006年，柯爱伦被任命为执行副总裁，负责公司的业务平台以及市场营销和销售。

    2009年1月1日，柯爱伦成为杜邦第一任女性首席执行官。在过去的一年中，公司的营运收入增长了21%。

    最近，柯爱伦向美国公共电视台（PBS）透露，“为人父母的经历对成为首席执行官很有帮助，因为我们无法控制孩子们的所作所为，不是吗？这让我明白，不一定我怎么说他们就会怎么做。”

Company: DuPont

Position: CEO and chair

Global 500 Rank: 285

    With a master's degree in management from Northwestern University -- which she received after studying mechanical engineering at Tufts -- Ellen Kullman headed to General Electric.

    She moved to DuPont in 1988 as a marketing manager and has been with the company for over 20 years. In 2006, Kullman was named EVP and manned the company's business platforms, as well as marketing and sales.

    In January 1, 2009, Kullman became DuPont's first female CEO. In the past year, the company's

    Kullman recently told PBS, "Parenting is good training to be CEO because we can't control our children's actions, right? It helped me understand that just because I said so, wasn't a reason for them to do anything."

所在公司：英美资源集团（Anglo American PLC）

职务：首席执行官

公司500强排名：345

    辛西娅•卡罗尔在堪萨斯大学（University of Kansas）获得了地质学硕士学位并于哈佛商学院拿到了工商管理硕士学位。因此，辛西娅•卡罗尔在英美资源公司就任首席执行官可谓是学以致用。该公司是一家资源开采公司，总部位于伦敦。

    卡罗尔最初在阿莫科公司（Amoco）从事石油地质勘探工作，之后于1988年跳槽至加拿大铝业公司（Alcan）。2002年底，她被任命为该公司基础金属集团总裁兼首席执行官。

    2007年，卡罗尔成为英美资源公司第一任女性也是第一任外来的掌门人。近来，她将公司的工作重点转移至钻石、铂金以及铜业务。2010年公司营运利润达到了98亿美元，是09年的两倍。

Company: Anglo American PLC

Position: CEO

Global 500 Rank: 345

    With a master's degree in geology from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Harvard Business School, Cynthia Carroll has been able to put her education to good use as CEO of Anglo American, a London-based mining company.

    Starting as an oil geologist at Amoco, Carroll eventually moved to Alcan in 1988. By 2002, she became president and CEO of Alcan's primary metals group.

    In 2007, Carroll became the first female -- and first person from outside the company -- to head Anglo American. Recently, she's shifted the company's focus to diamonds, platinum, and copper, doubling their operating profits from the previous year to $9.8 billion in 2010.

Company: Imperial Tobacco Group

Position: CEO

Global 500 Rank: 413

    Alison Cooper was not intimidated when presented with the daunting task of filling the shoes of Gareth Davis, Imperial Tobacco's former chief executive, who had served in the role for 14 years. Cooper took the reins at the tobacco company in May 2010.

    After leaving PriceWaterhouseCooper in 1999, Cooper moved to Imperial, where she has been working ever since. A mother and wife, Cooper has managed to balance work and home life, boosting Imperial's tobacco net revenues by 3% and their earnings per share up 7% in the first half of 2011, according to the company's mid-year report.

Ursula M. Burns

Company: Xerox

Position: CEO and chair

Global 500 Rank: 449

    After studying mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute (now the Polytechnic Institute of NYU) and receiving a master's in the same subject from Columbia, Burns began an internship at Xerox. She's been with the company ever since.

    She met her husband, Lloyd Bean, while working at the company. The two have a daughter together, as well as a son from Bean's previous marriage.

    Burns is not only the first African-American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, she is also the first woman to succeed another female CEO. Anne Mulcahy, named Xerox's chief executive in 2001, passed the baton to Burns in July 2009.