FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Marie-Christine Caubet Rank: 40 (2004 rank: New to the list)
Company: Renault Based in: France Title: Senior Vice President
With the arrival of Carlos Ghosn as Renault's CEO, Caubet received a promotion, moving from head of sales and marketing in France to the same job for all of Europe. That more than doubled the sales she's responsible for, to $32 billion, and made her the most senior female auto executive in Europe. Renault is hoping that Caubet, 54, can duplicate the success she had in France, where she upped market share by 4%, in the rest of Europe.
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.
