For the sixth consecutive year, Fortune magazine has named Debra L. Reed, Chairman and CEO of Sempra Energy, to the magazine’s “Most Powerful Women in Business” list.
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Barra, who added the chairman role earlier this year and became CEO in January 2014, tops the magazine’s 19th list. In 2014, she was ranked third. There are 22 chief executives in charge of companies valued at more than $1 trillion. The 2016 list has nine newcomers and one return candidate.
Nooyi has held the top spot at PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) for ten years, while Barra took over the CEO position at GM in 2013.
Mary Barra retained the Fortune’s Most Powerful Woman tag after a year of “dramatic improvement” at the Dollars 152.4 billion in revenues of the auto giant. Oh, and she also posted record profits for 2015 with $9.7 billion. It also features Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, IBM’s Ginni Rometty, Oracle’s Safra Catz, HP Enterprise’s Meg Whitman and YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki among other CEOs of technological enterprise.
Singing diva Beyonce was ranked at the 51st place as the bonus pick. “While the venture is her first major foray outside the music world, Beyonce is no stranger to being the boss”, Fortune said.
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Obviously the singer and sometime actress widely known for her chart-topping hits which helped to make her the first female artist to have 12 songs on the Billboard top 100, she is also a successful entrepreneur making waves in the business industry.
