Linda Grandia, Beauty pageant TV reality trends fusion with the South...
Linda Grandia CEO of the production company behind “I Am Multiverse” and other TV reality shows featuring an eccentric inside view of fact and drama in high stakes beauty pageants has combined the dramatic elimination of the contestants as part of the game mixed with intellectual, adventurous and adrenaline-charged challenges. This new elimination-style competition is setting the trends of European pageantry and is rapidly spreading through Latin America and the USA.
Mary Barra
Title: CEOCompany: General MotorsCountry: USA
The first woman to run a global automaker, Barra oversees more than 212,000 employees in 396 GM facilities on six continents. An...
Ginni Rometty
IBM is a company known for long-term vision and long-term employees. Rometty is no exception: She came to Big Blue as a systems engineer...
Indra Nooyi
Title: Chairman and CEOCompany: PepsiCo.Country: USA
Nooyi has more than doubled sales from outside the U.S. in her seven years running PepsiCo (pep, +0.27%). International markets now make...
Maria das Graças Silva Foster
Title: CEOCompany: PetrobrasCountry: Brazil
At no. 25, Petrobras, with annual revenues of $144 billion, is the highest-ranking woman-led company on the Fortune Global 500. Foster faces Many challenges:...
Ellen Kullman
Title: Chairman and CEOCompany: DuPontCountry: USA
Kullman's reinvention of DuPont has a distinctly international flavor to it: Her 2011 acquisition of Danish food enzyme maker Danisco was key...
Irene Rosenfeld
Title: Chairman and CEOCompany: MondelezCountry: USA
After Rosenfeld split Kraft (krft)in two, she took the reins of the more international entity (and gave it an exotic-sounding name): Mondelez...
Marillyn Hewson
Title: President and CEOCompany: Lockheed MartinCountry: USA
Hewson is making a big push to increase international sales, which make up 17% of revenue. (Pretty much everything else is...
Meg Whitman
Title: CEOCompany: Hewlett PackardCountry: USA
Some of Whitman's biggest battles are playing out on the global stage, with HP (hpq, -0.51%) rival Lenovo (lnvgf), a China-based company, now...
Patricia Woertz
Title: Chairman, President and CEOCompany: Archer Daniels MidlandCountry: USA
The Australian government stymied Woertz's global expansion plans when it blocked ADM's (adm, +1.85%) $3 billion bid to buy...
Gail Kelly
Title: Managing Director and CEOCompany: Westpac GroupCountry: Australia
Kelly is just about as global as they come: Born in South Africa to British parents, she taught Latin in...
Sheryl Sandberg
Title: COOCompany: FacebookCountry: USA
As the No. 2 of Facebook (fb, -0.04%), which is available in some 70 languages and generates more than half its revenue from outside...
Phebe Novakovic
Title: Chairman and CEOCompany: General DynamicsCountry: USA
General Dynamics (gd, +0.58%) is slowly but steadily increasing its international operations, which now make up 20% of revenue—up from 18%...
Safra Catz
Title: Co-President and CEOCompany: OracleCountry: USA
Most big decisions at Oracle (orcl, -0.12%), whose software is part of the essential fabric of a huge swath of the Global...
Marissa Mayer
Title: President and CEOCompany: YahooCountry: USA
A celebrity in her home country, Mayer is starting to step onto the world stage. She was co-chair of the recent World...
Alison Cooper
Title: CEOCompany: Imperial TobaccoCountry: Britain
Cooper has offset falling volumes at the $23-billion-in-revenue tobacco giant (brands include Davidoff and Gauloises) by investing in growth markets such as Kazakhstan...
