President, North America Pharmaceuticals
GlaxoSmithKline
2011 rank: 25
Age: 52
Connelly's division accounts for about one-third of GSK's revenue, but sales fell almost 5%, to just over $11 billion. Earlier this year she also became CEO of Human Genome Sciences, a promising biotech firm that GSK acquired for $3 billion.
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