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The count down of 50 Top Women in Business continues...
At number 45: Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
Age: 53
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans received a B.A degree in Applied Mathematics from Rice University and a M.B.A degree from Harvard Business School.
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans has served as the company's Chairwoman since January 2009 and as the company's Chief Executive Officer and President since August 2008.
She is also the Chairwoman of Sunoco Partners LLC since October 2008. Prior to joining Sunoco, Elsenhans served as the Executive Vice President of Global Manufacturing for Shell Downstream Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell Group.
Fluctuating oil prices and softening demand made it a tough first year for this new Fortune 500 CEO. Last year profits dropped 13%, and the stock has fallen 41% since her August 2008 start.
Elsenhans was voted number 11 on Forbes'2009 The 100 Most Powerful Women list.
Number 44: Marissa Mayer .jpg)
Age: 34
When she joined the startup in 1999 as the first woman engineer, Mayer gave it a 2% chance of succeeding.Now she not
When she joined the startup in 1999 as the first woman engineer, Mayer gave it a 2% chance of succeeding.Now she not
only directs the look and functionality of the $14 billion search engine, she's also behind more than 100 products, like Google
Earth and Google Chrome, the Internet browser and operating system that's challenging Microsoft Windows.
Number 43: Linda Hudson
President, Land & Armaments BAE Systems
Age: 59
Since joining BAE in 2007, Hudson has more than doubled her division's size. As the world's largest military vehicle business, her unit generated about a third of the company's $34.4 billion in revenue.
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