| Rank |
Name |
Title |
Company |
| 1 |
Stanley O'Neal |
COO |
Merrill Lynch |
| 2 |
Ken Chenault |
CEO |
American Express |
| 3 |
Richard Parsons |
CEO |
AOL Time Warner |
| 4 |
Franklin Raines |
CEO |
Fannie Mae |
| 5 |
Thomas Jones |
CEO of Global Investments, Private Banking, and Asset Management |
Citigroup |
| 6 |
Bruce Gordon |
President of Retail Markets |
Verizon |
| 7 |
Adebayo Ogunlesi |
Head of Investment Banking |
Credit Suisse First Boston |
| 8 |
Calvin Darden |
SVP, U.S. Operations |
UPS |
| 9 |
Vernon Jordan |
Senior Managing Director |
Lazard LLC |
| 10 |
Oprah Winfrey |
Chairman and CEO |
Harpo Inc. |
| 11 |
Lloyd Trotter |
President and CEO, GE Industrial Systems |
General Electric |
| 12 |
John Thompson |
CEO |
Symantec |
| 13 |
William Lewis |
Head of Banking |
Morgan Stanley |
| 14 |
Ray Wilkins |
Group President, Marketing and Sales |
SBC Communications |
| 15 |
Alfred Zollar |
GM, Lotus Software |
IBM |
| 16 |
Eula Adams |
SEVP |
First Data Corp. |
| 17 |
Arnold Donald |
CEO |
Merisant |
| 18 |
Myrtle Potter |
COO |
Genentech |
| 19 |
Rod Adkins |
GM, Pervasive Computing |
IBM |
| 20 |
Brenda Gaines |
President |
Diners Club North America |
| 21 |
Ron Williams |
President |
Aetna |
| 22 |
Earl Graves |
Founder and Publisher |
Black Enterprise |
| 23 |
Frank Clark |
President |
ComEd |
| 24 |
Paula Sneed |
President of E-Commerce and Marketing |
Kraft |
| 25 |
Robert Johnson |
Founder and CEO |
BET |
| 26 |
Virgis Colbert |
EVP |
Miller Brewing |
| 27 |
Pamela Thomas-Graham |
President and CEO |
CNBC |
| 28 |
Ursula Burns |
SVP |
Xerox |
| 29 |
Lawrence Jackson |
SVP for Supply Operations |
Safeway |
| 30 |
Erroll Davis Jr. |
Chairman & CEO |
Alliant Energy |
| 31 |
Al Edmonds |
President of Government Information Solutions |
Electronic Data Systems |
| 32 |
Bradley Sheares |
President of U.S. Human Health |
Merck |
| 33 |
Earvin "Magic" Johnson |
CEO |
Johnson Development Corp. |
| 34 |
Cathy Hughes |
Chairman and Founder |
Radio One |
| 35 |
Lana Corbi |
CEO |
Hallmark Channel |
| 36 |
Marc Belton |
SVP |
General Mills |
| 37 |
Brian Anderson |
CFO |
Baxter International |
| 38 |
Christopher Williams |
Founder and CEO |
Williams Capital Group |
| 39 |
Jacqueline Woods |
VP of Global Pricing and Licensing |
Oracle |
| 40 |
Calvin Hudson |
EVP |
Hartford Financial Group |
| 41 |
Russell Simmons |
Chairman and CEO |
Rush Communications |
| 42 |
Bertram Scott |
President |
TIAA-CREF Life Insurance |
| 43 |
Charles Tribbett |
Managing Director |
Russell Reynolds |
| 44 |
Tony Brown |
VP of Global Purchasing |
Ford |
| 45 |
Kim Crawford |
VP and GM of Networking |
Dell Computer |
| 46 |
David Turner |
Senior VP, Sales and Marketing |
Gateway |
| 47 |
Roger Gibson |
VP |
United Cargo |
| 48 |
Carla Harris |
Head of Equity Private Placement |
Morgan Stanley |
| 49 |
Keith Williamson |
President of Capital Services |
Pitney Bowes |
| 50 |
Cecil Pickett |
President |
Schering-Plough Research Institute |
