Julie L. Scammahorn
SVP & GeneralAuditor
American Express

Since joining the credit card company in 2008, Scammahorn hasbuilt a best-in-class internal audit group and assembled dedicatedrisk, consumer compliance, Basel II and technology auditteams. She has also extended the audit committee's focus to includeboth audit and risk.

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Brooks McCorcle
SVP, InvestorRelations
AT&T

Last year, McCorcle enhanced AT&T's targeting program forboth U.S. and international investors, a process that involved morethan 1,300 meetings globally. And through her work with investors,she insured the company's transition to a new CFO, John Stephens,went smoothly.

Cheryl Scully
Treasurer & VP,Investor Relations
AutoNation

At AutoNation, the largest car retailer in the U.S., withfranchises in 15 states, Scully recently negotiated the refinancingof the company's $1.7 billion credit facility. She also led effortsthat won the company an upgrade to an investment-grade rating fromStandard & Poor's.

Zarin Patel
CFO
BBC

Patel, finance chief for the U.K. broadcasting company since2004, played a key role in its negotiations with the U.K.government last year over funding the broadcaster receives fromlicense fees. She also led the reform of the BBC's pension strategyand oversees its effort to cut costs by 20% by 2017.

Karen Roebuck
Controller
BungeLimited

Roebuck has worked to build common processes and culture throughBunge's global accounting and control organizations. She led aproject to reduce finance transaction costs and use the savings formore analysis, and continues to focus on bolstering efficiency anddata quality.

Jann Brown
Finance Director & ManagingDirector
Cairn Energy

As head of finance at the U.K.-based oil and gas productioncompany, Brown played a key role in managing its interests inIndia. Her appointment last year as managing director recognizedher broader responsibilities, such as HR, environmental and socialresponsibility.

Sally Curley
SVP, InvestorRelations
Cardinal Health

Curley was involved in Cardinal's $4 billion spinoff of itsCareFusion medical products business in 2009. She also gathereddata from investors that contributed to its capital deploymentstrategy after the spinoff, a plan that included a significantdividend increase.

Tracey Brazier
Cash & Treasury ServicesManager, EMEA
Cargill

In her career at Cargill, Brazier has worked as a senior cashmanagement executive on many company acquisitions andimplementations of internal systems. Most recently, she led aproject to implement SWIFT across four of the company's banks insix countries.

Adena Friedman
CFO & ManagingDirector
Carlyle Group

As finance chief for the private equity firm, Friedman hasrefinanced its $500 million term loan and increased the capacity ofits revolver from $150 million to $750 million. And then, ofcourse, there's the IPO Carlyle is preparing to do this year.

Yvonne McGill
CFO, Global Public & LargeEnterprise Group, & VP
Dell

McGill led the consolidation of Dell's public and largeenterprise segments, which together generated 57% of its revenuelast year, and now serves as CFO of the combined unit. She was alsoresponsible for the financial aspects of Dell's go-to-market andsales transformation.

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