- Rank36
- Previous Rank-
- Age55
- TitleCEO and President
- CompanyReynolds American
- IndustryTobacco
She left as Reynolds CEO in 2011, but the board asked her to return on May 1 to the second-largest U.S. tobacco company. Her assignment: the $27.4 billion purchase of Lorillard announced in July, the biggest acquisition ever by a woman CEO (see story).