FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Galia Maor Rank: 32 (2004 rank: 36)
Company: Leumi Group Based in: Israel Title: President and CEO
Under Maor's leadership, Leumi has become Israel's largest bank, by assets, with $58 billion under its control. And it continues to post impressive results. Last year net profits were up 63%, to $433 million, and they were up again in the first half of 2005 by a more modest 13%. Maor, 62, has kept the bank healthy by closing branches and expanding its credit-card and private-banking businesses.
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.
