10 Biggest Companies with Female CEOs

In this article we are going to list the 10 biggest companies with female CEOs. For a detailed coverage of this topic and a more comprehensive list please take a look at the 15 biggest companies with female CEOs.

10. Oracle (NYSE:ORCL)

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 39.5

Oracle has more than 135,000 employees, while the CEO is Safra Catz, who was appointed as joint CEO in 2014.

9. GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK)

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 43

Emma Walsmley is the CEO of one of the biggest biotech companies in the world in GSK, appointed as CEO in 2017. She worked for L’oreal for 17 years prior to GSK and is now leading the charge as the company partners with Sanofi and attempts to find a vaccine for Covid-19.

8. Accenture (NYSE:ACN)

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 43.2

Accenture is an American Irish company, providing professional services in more than 120 countries across the world, with the CEO being Julie Sweet and is said to be one of the most influential women in corporate America.

7. Best Buy (NYSE:BBY)

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 43.6

Best Buy is a famous consumer electronics retailer in the US and Corie Barry is the CEO of the company. She was recently in the news after a whistleblower accused her of having an affair with a co-worker.

6. Thyssenkrupp

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 47.3

The German conglomerate is one of the biggest steel producers in the world, and was established in 1999 after the merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp. Martina Mertz is the CEO and has often been called as the most powerful woman in the German economy, after becoming the CEO back in 2019.

5. Engie

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 67.2

Engie is an electric utility company located in France, and is involved in multiple fields within the industry, including electricity generation, energy transition, and distribution as well, including nuclear, renewable energy and natural gas. The current interim of the CEO is Claire Waysand, while the permanent CEO will be Catherine MacGregor from 2021 onwards, and will be in charge of more than 171,000 employees.

4. United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS)

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 74.1

UPS is one of the biggest logistics companies in the world, and has close to half a million employees, with the number of employees greater than the population of most small cities. Carol Tomé is the CEO of the company and has been since June 2020, so she is relatively new in her reign. Only time will tell how far she is able to take the company.

3. Aviva

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 89.62

Aviva is a British multinational insurance company and the headquarters of the company are located in London, England. The company is run by Amanda Blanc, who became the CEO of the company in July 2020, and is one of the most recent female CEOs in our list. Before being the CEO of Aviva, she served as the CEO of Axa as well as the CEO at Zurich Insurance Group. She has also become the first woman to become the chair of the Association of British Insurers and is looking to take Aviva to new heights.

2. Anthem Inc. (NYSE:ANTM)

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 104.2

The first of only two companies with over $100 billion in revenue to have female CEOs, Anthem is a healthcare company and one of the largest healthcare companies in the world by revenue. Both the chairman and the CEO are women in the company, with the CEO being Gail Koziara Boudreax. Boudreax is an extremely talented person who was a prime athlete in her youth, excelling particularly in basketball. Her achievements in the corporate world even surpassed her athletic achievements and has been an executive for many different companies, before becoming the CEO of Anthem Inc. She has been consistently ranked among the most influential and powerful women in the world by both Forbes and Fortune. She became the CEO of Anthem in 2017.

1. General Motors (NYSE:GM)

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 137.2

It is very appropriate that the company topping the list of the 10 biggest companies with female CEOs is General Motors. Why is this so appropriate? Well for the longest time, automobiles and cars were considered the domain of men. Apparently, there was nothing more manly in the world than building cars or fixing them or improving them. So in that case, the fact that a woman is the CEO of one of the largest automobile companies in the world shows just how far women have come in breaking glass ceiling and stereotypes together.

Mary Barra is the CEO of General Motors, and has been for the past 6 years, having been appointed back in 2014. It won’t be surprising for you to hear that she is actually the first CEO of a major automaker. She started working in the company at just the age of 18, in 190 as a co-op student. Her job was to inspect hoods as well as fender panels, and she took on the job just to pay off her tuition. She kept on progressing though and didn’t let anything hold her back, moving on from position to position, becoming the vice president of Global Manufacturing Engineering finally in 2008. In the next year, she then became the vice president of Global Human Resources, before becoming the vice president of Global Product Development in 2011. She then became the CEO of the company of 2014. She had a troubled start as the CEO as in her first year as there were major safety recalls which involved over 30 million cars, and she had to actually testify before the Senate. She has also led GM into moving to automated and driverless cars, as well as electric powered cars, and has made acquisitions in this respect as well, including the purchase of Strobe. She also attracted some controversy in 2014, when she announced the closure of five plants in North America, leading to the layoff of 14,000 employees, a decision which even drew the ire of President Trump.