FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Güler Sabanci Rank: 17 (2004 rank: 20)
Company: Sabanci Holding Based in: Turkey Title: Chairman and Managing Director
This cosmopolitan Turk may have inherited the top job at her family's $8.6 billion conglomerate (the second-largest in Turkey, with 64 companies and operations in 11 countries), but she wasted no time distinguishing herself. Since taking over last year she has signed agreements making Sabanci Turkey's largest food retailer as well as the world's top manufacturer of raw materials for tires (the division she used to run). Sabanci, 50, has become one of Turkey's most outspoken advocates for its bid to join the European Union. In her spare time, she helps oversee her family's Sabanaci University and runs a vineyard.
From the November 14, 2005 issue
Highest pay
These women are among the highest paid in corporate America. All of them are employed by companies with over $1 billion in sales that filed proxies by September 1, 2005.
Newcomer Charlene Begley heads up GE's plastics division and is the youngest of this group at age 39. She bumped last year's youngest gun, Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck, now 40. But, on average, the Power 50 are in their late 40s.
