FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
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Rank: 40
(2004 Rank: 48)
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Yahoo
Sunnyvale
CFO and EVP, Finance and Administration
YHOO
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| Decker negotiated Yahoo's big move into China last summer. The $1.7 billion deal handed over Yahoo's Chinese operations to Jack Ma, founder of the Chinese Internet company Alibaba.com, in return for a 40% equity stake in Alibaba. Last year Yahoo's revenues totaled $3.6 billion, up 120% from 2003, and operating income came in at $689 million, a 133% increase. |
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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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