FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Lien Siaou-Sze Rank: 22 (2004 rank: 19)
Company: Hewlett-Packard Based in: Singapore Title: Senior Vice President
Lien keeps a low profile but has enormous clout at HP as the head of its technology-solutions group in Asia. The former systems engineer manages 15,000 employees in 13 countries and was responsible for about $12 billion of HP's revenue last year. She's also a director of Singapore's port and two of its leading colleges. And she's working on a Ph.D. from Cambridge.
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.
