FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Barbara Dalibard Rank: 26 (2004 rank: 27)
Company: France Télécom Based in: France Title: Executive Vice President
Dalibard, who heads France Télécom's $8.7 billion Enterprise Communication Services unit, was recently given an additional responsibility: running Equant, the company's $2.9 billion business-data arm. Equant is expected to be folded into Orange, France Télécom's mobile-phone business, and relaunched as Orange Business Services next year, giving Dalibard, 47, a lot more customers to worry about.
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.
