5 Women Who Are At the Helm of the Biggest Conglomerates
Meg Whitman
Position: President and CEO
Company: Hewlett-Packard
Meg Whitman, A native of Long Island and a graduate from Princeton University and Harvard Business School, was named as the CEO of HP on 22nd September, 2011. She joined the firm in January 2011 and was elected to lead the conglomerate 8 months down the line.
Before joining HP, she served as President and CEO of eBay for 10 years and even was the executive of Procter & Gamble, DreamWorks, and Hasbro.
Irene Rosenfeld
Position: Chairperson and CEO
Company: Mondelez International
Rosenfeld has been associated with the food and beverage industry since about 30 long years. She first joined the New York based Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency and later was employed at General Foods in consumer research.
Rosenfeld was named as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Frito-Lay in the year 2004, which is a division of PepsiCo. While at the company she focused on promoting healthy products and was later selected as the Chief Executive Officer of Kraft Foods in June 2006.
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