FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Rank: 44 (2004 rank: New to the list)
Company: Biocon Based in: India Title: Chairman and Managing Director
Mazumdar-Shaw, 52, became India's richest self-made businesswoman last year when her biotech company went public. Having founded Biocon in a Bangalore garage in 1978, she's now worth about $440 million and is working on the world's first oral insulin for diabetes patients. Biocon, India's largest biotech firm, had sales last year of $167 million.
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.
