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1 Ginni Rometty 56 IBM
2 Indra Nooyi 57 PepsiCo
3 Ellen Kullman 57 DuPont
4 Marillyn Hewson 59 Lockheed Martin
5 Sheryl Sandberg 44 Facebook
6 Irene Rosenfeld 60 Mondelez
7 Patricia Woertz 60 Archer Daniels Midland
8 Marissa Mayer 38 Yahoo
9 Meg Whitman 57 HP
10 Abigail Johnson 51 Fidelity Investments
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