FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Dawn Hudson Rank: 41 (2004 Rank: Return to the list)
Age: 47 Company:PepsiCo Based in: Purchase Title: President and CEO, Pepsi-Cola North America Get quote:PEP
The woman with the golden marketing touch — she was behind the "Joy of Cola" campaign — is now calling the shots at PepsiCo's North American beverages division.
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.
