FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Barbara Stymiest Rank: 34 (2004 rank: New to the list)
Company: Royal Bank of Canada Based in: Canada Title: Chief Operating Officer
Stymiest took over the No. 2 job at Canada's No. 1 bank in January after a successful five-year run as the Toronto Stock Exchange's first female CEO. (She took the exchange public and increased its market capitalization by 20%.) Now the 49-year-old executive will have to keep things running smoothly at Royal Bank, which had revenues of $14.6 billion last year but recently took a writedown of $500 million to offset potential liabilities from its dealings with Enron.
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.
