CEO, Alcatel-Lucent (ALU)
Age: 54
When the French communications company Alcatel merged with AT&T spinoff Lucent in a $13.5 billion deal last year, it formed one of the world's largest tech companies, with $25 billion in annual revenues. Now Russo is sitting pretty, with her company rivaling Cisco Systems as one of the world's largest suppliers of networking gear to big telcos like China Mobile and KPN. Age: 54
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