by Patricia Sellers
This year’s Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit was our strongest-yet gathering of global leaders in business and beyond. Over the next week or so, we’ll be bringing you highlights from the three-day powwow in North San Diego that ended yesterday.
Last night, as we began to breathe again, we noticed a pattern: Even as the 350+ VIPs spanned from A to Z, Summit participants with last names beginning with B were a particularly stunning bunch. Here are just some of the high-achieving big-name B’s–including four leaders on the 2009 Most Powerful Women in Business list–who were with us at the Fortune Summit:
Gina Bianchini, co-founder and CEO, Ning
Sheila Bair, chairman of the FDIC
Tyra Banks, chairman and CEO, Bankable Enterprises
Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, CNBC
Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo
Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs
Gail Boudreaux, EVP, UnitedHealth Group and President, UnitedHealthcare
Angela Braly, President and CEO, Wellpoint
Amy Brinkley, former chief risk officer, Bank of America
Campbell Brown, Anchor, Campbell Brown, CNN
Tina Brown, Founder and Editor in Chief, The Daily Beast
Mika Brzezinski, co-host, Morning Joe, MSNBC
Susan Buffett, Chair, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
Ursula Burns, CEO, Xerox
Barbara Byrne, Vice Chairman, Barclays Capital
