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Two South Asian women are featured in a major business magazine list. One at the very top and another among "four rising stars."
Fortune magazine has named Indra Nooyi, the CEO of
PepsiCo as the most powerful woman in business as part of its annual list of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business (issue dated Oct. 16, 2006):
1. Indra NooyiPepsi's brand-new chief (as of Oct. 1) is a powerful force behind the consumer giant's strong profit pipeline and $108 billion stock market valuation. Formerly CFO and president, the Indian-born strategist reached the top even though she never ran a line operation at Pepsi. Nooyi believes in constant reinvention: "The minute you've developed a new business model, it's extinct, because somebody is going to copy it."
You can see more about Indra from SAJAforum's coverage of her appointment in August 2006.
You can read the rest of the top 50 here.
Fortune also named "four rising stars" and that list included one South Asian:
Padmasree Warrior
Age: 46
EVP, Chief Technology Officer, Motorola
Trained as a chemical engineer, Warrior oversees the Illinois-based tech giant’s $3.7 billion research and development budget as well as 25,000 engineers in labs all over the world.
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