FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
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Rank: 1
(2004 Rank: 1)
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eBay
San Jose
Chairman and CEO
EBAY
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| The empress of eBay still rules Silicon Valley. Though the stock has had a tough year, down about 30%, revenues and profits are strong. To keep eBay expanding — it now has 68 million active users — Whitman has gone shopping, buying seven new businesses for more than $1.3 billion. Up next: the controversial $2.6 billion acquisition of Skype. |
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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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