Title: President and CEO
Company: Safeco
Age: 50
Compensation: $6.14 million
Talk about a career change. Paula Rosput Reynolds went from working in the energy industry for 27 years (five of those as CEO of Atlanta-based AGL Resources) to running insurance company Safeco. Despite making the switch last year, she's already made some major decisions like moving the company's headquarters to downtown Seattle and reducing expenses, which include employee headcount.