FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
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Rank: 9 (2004 rank: 14)
Lenovo
China
Chief Financial Officer
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Ma was one of the chief architects of Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC business last yearthe largest Chinese takeover of an American company and a deal that puts the computer manufacturer in third place in the industry, behind only Dell and Hewlett-Packard, with expected revenue this year of $13 billion. The 52-year-old Ma, who started out as an English translator at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been instrumental in the company's drive to become a global player. |
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From the November 14, 2005 issue
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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. |
Young and powerful |
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. |
Perennial powers |
These women have been on the Power 50 each year since it began in 1998. |
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