Women have already set a new record in the number of female CEOs in business. As much as we have female CEO’s running some of the most successful businesses in the world, Chrissy Weems would like to note that there is a still a big issue in the number of women who play the role of top executives in business.
General Motors – Mary Barra, Chairman, and CEO
Barra seats at the topmost position in world business, as a woman. She rivals companies like Ford and Tesla. In 2016, she managed to beat Tesla’s Model-3 car with a Chevrolet Bolt EV that has a battery that outlasts Tesla’s car. The Chevrolet Bolt EV was the top selling pure electric car in 2016.
Barra’s new focus is on autonomous vehicles which have been sparked by the acquisition of Cruise Automation, which is a self-driving tech startup. GM has been testing its new car-sharing service called Maven that offers deals to Lyft and Uber drivers.
PepsiCo – Indra Nooyi, Chairman, and CEO
Nooyi is comfortably running PepsiCo without plans of stepping down as it was rumored in 2016. In 2018, Pepsi’s total revenue rose by 2.4% outpacing the estimates from experts, and its shares rose by 3.15%.
PepsiCo has managed to beat predictions from industry experts because of its new range of products and the innovation of its classic colas. Pepsi has been working to turn around Gatorade brand which has seen improved trajectories and performance of the sports drink.
Lockheed Martin – Marillyn Hewson, Chairman, and President
Although the F-35 fighter-jet program by Lockheed has been termed as too expensive by president Trump, he has still been close to the company as the U.S government is its primary client. Lockheed is also the beneficiary of the defense budget increase of the White House, as it also has gained new arms deals with countries like Saudi Arabia.
The company’s stock prices rose by more than 1.3% in 2018 while it increased its expected annual cash flow for 2018 to approximately $3.3 billion from the projected $3 billion.
Facebook – Sheryl Sandberg, COO
Sheryl has been on the forefront to speak more on the issues that are important to her over the years as she also took to respond issues Facebook has been having on online hate groups and fake news. Sandberg also published a book called Option B that talked about her grief after the loss of her husband.
In 2018, Facebook shares have collapsed to about 24% due to the Cambridge Analytica election scandal. On the other side, Chrissy Weems would like to highlight that Facebook’s specific global DAU rates rose by 11% year over year with the Philippines, Indonesia, and India leading the growth curve.
IBM – Ginni Rometty Chairman, President, and CEO
IBM has been shifting its business to mobile, cloud, security and analytics as its sales on computers has been dwindling for years. In 2018, we have seen IBM have a three consecutive quarter revenue growth after it had declines for five straight years.
Cloud platforms and technology services have become its major source of revenue. IBM also acquired Oniqua which led Ginni to announce that it had designed the world fastest supercomputer.
Oracle – Safra Catz, Co-CEO
Catz plays the role of a co-CEO in charge of the company’s significant expansion where it hires more than 5,000 engineers, and other staff to beef up its cloud business. The cloud division is Oracle’s fastest growing sector.
Catz was in charge of the acquisition of NetSuite which was purchased in 2016 at a price tag of $9.3 billion; the largest deal that Oracle has ever made. Besides being at the forefront of Oracle, Catz also runs a $3.5 billion STEM investment initiative.