President and CFO
Oracle
2011 rank: 11
Age: 50
Catz is comfortable sharing power -- ex-HP chief Mark Hurd is also an Oracle president -- perhaps because she's in charge of the software maker's mighty M&A machine, which has announced 10 deals valued at more than $5 billion in the last year alone.
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