Vice Chairman
SM Investments
Country: PhilippinesSM Investments
2006 rank: 46
Sy-Coson runs SMIC, the family holding company, which includes mall, real estate, and banking interests, and where sales skyrocketed 68% last year, to $1.7 billion. Though her father is known as the visionary, Sy-Coson, 56, is proving she's a big asset: In July she brokered one of the country's largest banking deals and chairs the new entity.