IBM Corp. CEO Ginni Rometty and PepsiCo Inc. CEO Indra Nooyi are the two most powerful women in business, according to Fortune, with Xerox Corp.’s Ursula Burns also cracking the top 10.
Nooyi lives in Greenwich. Besides Burns from Norwalk-based Xerox, other representatives from Fairfield County companies include Charlene Begley, chief information officer for Fairfield-based General Electric Co. and CEO of GE Home and Business Solutions; and Maggie Wilderotter, CEO of Stamford-based Frontier Communications Corp.
Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM was one of a few companies with multiple executives on the Fortune 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list, with IBM Global Business Services senior vice president Bridget van Kralingen ranked 23th.
Walmart Stores Inc., Lockheed Martin and Comcast Corp. were the only companies to land three executives each on the list.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was the youngest on the list at age 37, and is otherwise notable in that she is due to give birth to her first child in early October.
