FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Irene Rosenfeld Rank: 27 (2004 Rank: 31)
Age: 52 Company:PepsiCo Based in: Purchase Title: Chairman and CEO, Frito-Lay Get quote:PEP
Rosenfeld's unit — Frito-Lay North America — is the company's biggest, with $9.6 billion in revenues last year. Next up: introducing healthy snacks, like veggie chips, starting in 2006
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.
