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Mary Sammons (Chief Executive)

Mary F. Sammons is an American businessperson from Portland, Oregon. She is the president and chief executive officer of Rite Aid Corporation.

She formerly was the president and chief executive officer of Fred Meyer. She graduated from Marylhurst College (now Marylhurst University).

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Chanda Kochhar (Chief Executive)

Chanda Kochhar is currently the Managing Director (MD) of ICICI Bank and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). ICICI Bank is India's largest private bank and overall second largest bank in the country.

She also heads the Corporate Centre of ICICI Bank. Kocchar has also consistently figured in Fortune's list of "Most Powerful Women in Business" since 2005.

In 2009, she debuted at number 20 in the Forbes "World's 100 Most Powerful Women list".

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Marjorie Scardino (Chief Executive)

Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino is the CEO of Pearson PLC. She became the first female Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO of Pearson in 1997. She is also a non-executive director of Nokia and former CEO of the Economist Group.

Scardino is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of San Francisco School of Law and the winner of the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal. Before 1985 she was the editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, The Georgia Gazette, where she worked with her husband Albert Scardino, later a media reporter for The New York Times.

She is also a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum and serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation and the Carter Center. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

In 2007 she was listed 17th on the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the World.

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The World’s Most Powerful Women 2009

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Gail Kelly (Chief Executive)

Gail Kelly is an Australian and South African business person. In 2002 she became the first woman CEO of a major Australian bank or top 15 company and, as at 2005, was the highest paid woman at an Australian corporation.

She has recently taken up the position of CEO at Westpac.

In August 2008 Forbes ranked her the 11th most powerful woman in the world.

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Christine Lagarde (Minister of Economy)

Christine Lagarde is the current Minister of Economic Affairs, Industry and Employment of France, appointed in June 2007.

She was previously Minister of Agriculture and Fishing and Minister of Trade in the government of Dominique de Villepin.

Lagarde is the first woman ever to become minister of Economic Affairs of a G8 economy.

In 2008, Lagarde was ranked the 14th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes Magazine. A noted antitrust and labour lawyer, Lagarde made history as the first female chairman of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.

She has been awarded France's highest honor, the Légion d'honneur.

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Safra Catz (Chief Financial Officer/President)

Safra A. Catz is an Israeli - American manager, has been the Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation since November 2005. She has also been a President of the company since January 2004 and a member of the company's Board of Directors since October 2001.

She has been at Oracle Corporation since April 1999. She became the non-executive Director of HSBC Group since May 2008.

Prior to joining Oracle, Catz was at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a global investment bank, where she was a Managing Director from 1997 and had previously held various investment banking positions since 1986.

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Anne Mulcahy (Chairman)

Anne M. Mulcahy is chairman and former chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation. She was named CEO of Xerox on August 1, 2001, and chairman on January 1, 2002. In addition to the Xerox board, she has been a member of the boards of directors of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. and Target Corporation.

The Wall Street Journal named Mulcahy one of 50 women to watch in 2005 and Forbes Magazine ranked her at the sixth position among the Most Powerful Women in America in 2005. In 2008, she was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's Best Leaders.

She has been selected as 'CEO of the Year 2008' by Chief Executive magazine. She announced her retirement as CEO on 21 May 2009 prior to the company's annual shareholder meeting.

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