WAngela Jean Ahrendts, DBE is an American businesswoman who was previously the senior vice president of retail at Apple Inc. She was the CEO of Burberry from 2006 to 2014. Ahrendts left Burberry to join Apple in 2014. Ahrendts was ranked 25th in Forbes' 2015 list of the most powerful women in the world, 9th most powerful woman in the U.K. in the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 100 Power List, and 29th in Fortune's 2014 list of the world's most powerful women in business. She was also a member of the UK's Prime Minister's business advisory council until it was disbanded in 2016.
WJaya Baloo is a cybersecurity expert who is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Avast Software. Baloo was named as one of the top 100 CISO's in 2017, and one of Forbes 100 Women Founders in Europe To Follow in 2018.
WElizabeth Millen Birch is an American attorney and former corporate executive who chaired the board of directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1992-1994. She served as the executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT organization, from January 1995 until January 2004.
WMargaret Adela Miriam Carver is an English businesswoman. She is currently Interim Chairman of Ofcom, and Chairman of the Racecourse Association (RCA). She was the first woman Chairman of ITN and also the first woman to fill the RCA, and BBFC Chairmanships.
WWei Christianson, née Sun is CEO of China and Co-CEO of Asia Pacific for Morgan Stanley and a member of the Firm's Management Committee. In addition to her regional role, she is responsible for all aspects of the firm's operations in China, and frequently speaks on Asia business issues at major conferences around the world.
WWeili Dai is a Chinese-born American businesswoman. She is the co-founder, former director, and former president of Marvell Technology Group. Dai is a successful women entrepreneur, and is the only female co-founder of a major semiconductor company. As of 2015, she is listed as the 95th richest woman in the world by Forbes. Her estimated networth was US$930 million in mid-2018.
WMaëlle Gavet is a French businesswoman, author, and entrepreneur.
WMarillyn Adams Hewson is an American businesswoman, and the strategic advisor to the CEO of aerospace and defense manufacturing company Lockheed Martin. She had previously served as chairman, president and CEO from January 2013 to June 2020. She retired as executive chairman and a board member effective March 1, 2021.
WZabeen Hirji is a former Chief Human Resources Officer and a former member of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Group Executive in Toronto from 2007 - 2017. A native of Tanzania, she immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, in 1974 and joined the RBC as a teller in 1977, advancing through various departments until acceding to her current position in 2007. She is a prominent advocate and spokesperson for diversity and inclusion in Canadian business, and has received numerous awards for championing the advancement of women and minorities. She was listed in the 2001 edition of Who's Who in Canadian Business and the 2009 edition of Canadian Who's Who.
WIngeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer is an Austrian electrical engineer from Technical University of Vienna. She helped create the first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant in the world with her husband Prof. Erwin Hochmair. In 1980 she co-founded together with Prof. Erwin Hochmair the medical device company MED-EL and serves as its CEO and CTO. In 2013, she was honored together with two more scientists with the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for developing the modern cochlear implant.
WAnn Hopkins was an American business manager who was the plaintiff in the landmark American employment discrimination case Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins.
WMadeleine Jacobs was the CEO of the American Chemical Society (ACS) from 2004 to 2014, and the president and CEO of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents from 2015 to 2016.
WBelinda Johnson is an American attorney and business executive. She currently serves on the boards of Airbnb and PayPal.
WDebra L. Lee is an American businesswoman. She was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BET, the parent company for Black Entertainment Television from 2005 to May 28, 2018. Lee has sat on the board of directors for a number of companies/organizations, including the National Cable & Telecommunications Association the Ad Council, and the National Cable Television Association. Debra Lee is named one of the "100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment" by The Hollywood Reporter due to her many achievements in her 30-plus year career at BET.
WMarne Lynn Levine is an American businesswoman. She is the Vice President of Global Partnerships, Business and Corporate Development at Facebook.
WJanice Byung Min is an American media executive. She started her career in journalism, working at People magazine and InStyle, and was editor-in-chief at Us Weekly from 2002 to 2009. As an executive, she revamped entertainment industry publications The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard.
WShahrzad Rafati is the founder and CEO of BroadbandTV Corp, a digital media and technology company that drives monetization for content creators. Shahrzad is credited with pioneering both the technology and business model that made peace between big entertainment entities like the NBA and their fans who were uploading premium content to video sites like YouTube.
WEstelle B. Richman is a former American government official, who served as the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare from 2003 to 2009.She currently works as the chair for the Center for Health Care Strategies.
WJenna Leah Sanz-Agero is the former lead singer of the female rock group Vixen, and a former president of Media 8. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California and served from 2017 to 2019 as Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and Operations for The H Collective, a motion picture company. Since July 2019 she serves as Director of Business, Legal Affairs and Strategic Knowledge Management at Netflix.
WBritta Seeger is a German business executive. She is currently the second female member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG alongside Renata Jungo Brüngger and, after her predecessor Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, the third woman in the history of Daimler AG to be appointed to the Board of Management.
WGerri Sinclair serves as the Innovation Commissioner for the Government of British Columbia. She was appointed in July 2020.
WLisa Su is a Taiwan-born American business executive and electrical engineer, who is the president and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Early in her career, Su worked at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor in engineering and management positions. She is known for her work developing silicon-on-insulator semiconductor manufacturing technologies and more efficient semiconductor chips during her time as vice president of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center.
WMary Ann Tighe is an American commercial real estate broker and chief executive officer of the New York Tri-State Region of CBRE, the world's largest commercial real estate services firm. Tighe has made commercial transactions totaling more than 101.6 million square feet and has been cited as a groundbreaker in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Her deals have anchored more than 14.4 million square feet of new construction in the New York region, a total believed to be a record in commercial brokerage. Tighe has been named to Crain's New York Business Most Powerful Women in New York since the listing was inaugurated in 2007, ranking #1 in 2011 across all New York City industries. In 2018, she was named to the Crain's Business Hall of Fame.
WAnnette Winkler is a German business executive who was the CEO and director of Smart Automobile, the division of Daimler AG noted for manufacturing and marketing the two-passenger Smart Fortwo and four-passenger Smart Forfour city cars, from 2011 to 2018.
WWhitney Wolfe Herd is an American entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Bumble, a social and dating app, launched in 2014. She was also an early executive at Tinder. Wolfe Herd was named as one of 2017's and 2018's Forbes 30 Under 30, and in 2018 she was named in the Time 100 List. In February 2021, Wolfe Herd became the world's youngest current female self-made billionaire when she took Bumble public. She also became the youngest woman to take a company public, at age 31.
WHildegard Wortmann is a German business executive who has been the first female member of the Board of Management of Audi since 1 July 2019, where she is responsible for marketing and sales.