FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Lois Quam Rank: 36 (2004 Rank: 42)
Age: 44 Company:United Health Group Based in: Minnetonka Title: CEO, Ovations Get quote:UNH
With five million consumers, Ovations is already the largest provider of health services to seniors. Thanks to new deals and the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, the $7.6 billion company is about to get much bigger.
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.
