Most Powerful Women

Debra Crew

  • Title
    President and Chief Commercial Officer, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
  • Affiliation
    Reynolds American
  • Age
    44

Who would have expected Crew, the former head of PepsiCo’s North America nutrition unit, to join Reynolds American as head of its cigarette business? She did, last year, then helped integrate Reynolds’s $27.4 billion purchase of Lorillard. Crew will oversee $8.8 billion of Reynolds’s estimated $11 billion in post-merger sales and could succeed CEO Cameron.

Personal Information

2020 Rank44
Newcomer?NO

Company Financials

Revenues ($M)8,471
Profits ($M)1,470
Market Value as of 09/18/18 ($M)58,350