Karen Matusinec
Treasurer &SVP
McDonald's

Matusinec served as vice president of the fast-food retailer'stax department before she was named treasurer last year. She nowoversees the areas of tax and insurance in addition to treasury.Matusinec focuses on ensuring access to capital as McDonald's andits operators make investments to upgrade the restaurants.

Lisa Martin
SVP, GlobalProcurement & Operations Finance
Pfizer

Martin oversees the development of sourcing strategies to makethe most of the pharmaceutical company's $20 billion inspending. Her oversight also includes real estate, facilitiesmanagement, and corporate services such as fleet and the globaltravel program.

Annemarie Moore
GroupTreasurer
Plan International

In her five years with the U.K.-based charity that aims toalleviate child poverty around the world, Moore led therestructuring of its banking arrangements in Africa and Asia andmade changes in its foreign exchange practices that resulted incost savings of about 1.5% of turnover.

Jo-Ann Longworth
CFO &SVP
Resolute Forest Products

Longworth signed on as finance chief at Montreal-based Resolutein the wake of its restructuring and emergence from bankruptcy. Shehas focused on restructuring its finance operations, extending andamending its $600 million credit facility, and making a tenderoffer for pulp manufacturer Fibrek.

Maureen O'Connell
CFO, CAO &EVP
Scholastic Corp.

Since signing on at the publishing company in 2007, O'Connellhas made improvements in budgeting, forecasting and capitalallocation processes. She also centralized supply chain, purchasingand manufacturing operations, reduced inventory and improved turntimes at the company's distribution centers.

Linda G. Sullivan
CFO & SVP
Southern California Edison

Sullivan, the utility's first female CFO in its 125-yearhistory, heads a process to optimize its cost structure to betterbalance reliable power delivery and the rates paid by customers.She recently led the finance components of a company-wideimplementation of SAP that replaced more than 200 systems.

Sherry Smith
CFO &EVP
SUPERVALU

Since becoming CFO of the grocery chain in 2010, Smith hasimproved financial reporting, increased transparency and bolsteredthe company's competitive position by cutting expenses, including areduction of $175 million in fiscal 2011 and another reduction of$90 million in the first two quarters of fiscal 2012.

Gina Wilson
CFO &EVP
TIAA-CREF

Since joining the retirement provider for academics in 2010,Wilson has worked to streamline the company's financial systems,develop activity-based costing methods and support investment innew products. She also heads TIAA-CREF's Asset Liability Committeeand guided its work through the European debt crisis.

Katherine Gill-Charest
Controller &SVP
Viacom

After Viacom was spun off from CBS Corp. in 2006, Gill-Charestworked to strengthen the finance group. She's currentlyestablishing centers of excellence for the international payrolland statutory reporting areas, part of the media company's financetransformation efforts.

Cathy Smith CFO and SVP, StrategyWalmart International

Smith heads finance and strategy for Walmart's fastest-growingsegment, encompassing more than 5,000 stores in 27 countriesoutside the U.S. Since her appointment in 2010, she has completedthe Massmart acquisition in South Africa as well as some smalleracquisitions and implemented SAP in four countries.

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