Facebook COO
and author of the 2013 best-selling book Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg has been named the most powerful woman
in technology on the Forbes’
Power Women
list for the fourth consecutive year.
The list includes Susan Wojcicki, an early employee of Google who became YouTube CEO in February 2014 and IBM CEO Virginia
“Ginni” Rometty, Rometty joined IBM in 1981 at 24 as a systems engineer and became the company's first
female CEO in 2012.
Also on the list is current HP CEO Meg Whitman and Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. Whitman was earlier CEO of online auction house
eBay, which she helped expand from 30 employees and $5 million in sales to more
than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in revenue. Marissa was named Yahoo!’s CEO in 2012 making her one of the
youngest CEOs on the books of the world’s largest companies.
Other names include Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz and Senior
VP Angela Ahrendts, the first woman on Apple CEO Tim Cook's executive
team.
The annual ‘World’s Most Powerful Women’ list from Forbes highlights women’s achievements and their influence women in a variety of fields such as
politics, industry and even celebrity role models.
Forbes started tracking tech as its own category four
years ago and in a sector that is widely known for being unwelcoming to women,
these leaders have continued to succeed and excel in their fields.
