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Top 10 Female Leaders in Information Technology
Times have changed. Women are increasingly finding top jobs in fortune 500 companies. Many of them are changing the IT world and influencing our future. This article is dedicated to 10 of them that pave the way.
10. Patti S. Hart, International Game Technology
Hart has been the CEO of IGT since 2009. She has over 20 years of experience in both telecommunication services and consumer broadband industries. She previously served as CEO of DirectTV Broadband Inc. between 1999 and 2001.
9. Patricia A. House
She co-founded and is the vice-chairman and senior VP of C3. C3 is a large corporation managing energy and emission management software. She was named as one Fortune`s 50 most powerfulwomen in business in 2000.
8. Virginia Rometty, IBM
Virginia Rometty is currently the President and CEO of IBM, a position she`s held since January of 2012. She is a frequent speaker at industry and business conferences around the world, and was named among Fortune Magazine‘s most influential women in business in 2004, and Time magazine’s 2002 Global Business Influential. There are a few pros and cons to her being the CEO; IBM has seen a dip in sales since she took over. In addition, the corporation saw one of the biggest partnerships go down in history – with Apple.
7. Marisa Mayer, Yahoo
Marissa Mayer was the head of the development of Google’s most successful products for 10 years and was appointed CEO of Yahoo in 2012, at the age of 37. She got the job at Google when the founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, quizzed her on artificial intelligence while sitting at a ping-pong table that the company used for conferences. In September of 2013, Mayer was ranked number one by Fortune magazine in its annual “40 Under 40″ list of business leaders.
6. Carol Bartz
She was the CEO of Yahoo until she was fired in 2011. She previously worked for 3M until her request to transfer to headquarters was denied. In her two years at Yahoo she worked hard to upend the company. She put a halt to the informal flow of information that was once common. Ms. Bartz is still on the board of Cisco, a position she’s held since 1996. I am sure she’ll make her comeback sometime next year. Her fieriness will not die.
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