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"Deborah and Judy hail from a strong family of successful technologists. Both their parents – their mother Thelma, a WITI Hall of Fame winner as well – set these remarkable women on an inevitable path to success, which was accomplished through encouragement and their own merits in their fields of study," says Carolyn Leighton.

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# 5 Sandy Carter

Sandy Carter is Vice President, Social Business Evangelism at IBM, where she is responsible for directing the company's social business initiatives, and working with clients to develop best practices. (Social business is the application of social media tools and techniques to a company's internal and external processes, in order to connect clients, partners, citizens and employees). Since joining the company in 1989, Carter has also been a VP of IBM's Service Oriented Architecture, which achieved 70 % market share under her management.

She is fluent in eight programming languages; has travelled to more than 60 countries; has authored three books about business and social media, and is one of IBM's top bloggers and tweeters, winning MarCom awards for her communities.

"Sandy Carter uniquely combines extraordinary expertise in the worlds of business and technology, traveling the world to evangelize the use of social media to help strengthen communication and revenue in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer strategy. She is a passionate, committed advocate and supporter of young women and girls achieving their greatest possible success," says founder and chairwoman of Women in Technology International (WITI), Carolyn Leighton.

# 6 Ginny Rometty

In October, 30-year IBM veteran "Ginni" Rometty was tapped as CEO, becoming the first woman to head the century-old tech giant. In her first year as chief, she is implementing a five-year strategy to use new markets like cloud computing and business analytics software to drive $20 billion of revenue growth by 2015, a goal she says IBM is "well on track" to achieve. While exceptionally private, she became the center of the conversation this year when historic Augusta National Golf Club upheld its controversial male-only policy and didn't extend an invitation to IBM's newest chief. Rometty started at IBM in 1981 as a systems engineer and climbed to head of global sales, where she oversaw results in 170 markets around the world.

# 7 Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman struck out in the 2010 election for governor of California, but it might have been a much easier job than turning around the struggling tech firm Hewlett-Packard. In January 2011, Whitman joined Hewlett-Packard's board of directors. She was named CEO on September 22, 2011. As well as renewing focus on HP‘s Research & Development division, Whitman‘s major decision during her first year as CEO has been to retain and recommit the firm to the PC business that her predecessor announced he was considering discarding. HP shares are down nearly 25 % this year, which makes the firm the lowest performer in the Dow Jones industrial average and Whitman's responsibilities as CEO are gargantuan.

At a conference in June she said it might take "four or five years" to fix the company. Her incentive stock options could be worth millions-but only if the stock price increases 40 % in the next 24 months under her watch.

She turned down Warren Buffett's invitation in 2011 to join the Giving Pledge, in which billionaires agree to donate half their fortune to charity. Her net worth has grown $300 million since September 2011 thanks to a 50 % surge in the value of her eBay shares.

# 8 Maja Matarić

Maja J Mataric‘ is an American computer scientist and roboticist, and the Chan Soon-Shiong Chaired Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California, founding director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, co-director of the USC Robotics Research Lab (robotics.usc.edu) and Vice Dean for Research in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

She is known for her work in human-robot interaction for socially assistive robotics, a new field she pioneered, which focuses on creating robots capable of providing personalized therapy and care through social rather than physical interaction, through technologies aimed at aiding special needs populations including children with autism spectrum disorders, stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors, and individuals with Alzheimer‘s disease. She is also known for her earlier work on coordination of robot teams, and robot navigation. Her Interaction Lab‘s research into socially assistive robotics is aimed at endowing robots with the ability to help people through individual non-contact assistance in convalescence, rehabilitation, training, and education.

Maja J. Matarić received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring at a White House ceremony in 2011.

She is one of the 2013 recipients of ABI's Women of Vision Awards.

# 9 Weili Dai

Co-founder, Marvell Technology Group. Dai is the only woman co-founder of an American semiconductor company, and since it began in 1995, she directed Marvell‘s rise to become one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. Ms. Dai's close relationship with her customers has given her a strong reputation for professionalism and integrity throughout the technology industry. Ms. Dai has served a pivotal role in creating some of the Company's most important strategic partnerships and under her leadership Marvell's technology has become an integral component of many of the world's products in enterprise, communications, mobile computing, consumer and emerging markets.

The U.S. – educated "geek" who hails from China co-founded Marvell Technology Group with her husband, Sehat Sutardja in 1995.

The company with 6000 employees and annual revenue of $ 3.4 billion is one of the world's leading producers of "fabless" semiconductors. It has clients like Apple, Samsung, Toshiba and Western Digital. She has a goal to make the California based Marvell, the biggest semiconductor company in China. "t's important for us to stay in Silicon Valley.

That's where the entire eco-system of great talent and technologies resides," says Wei, adding that over 1,600 Marvell employees are based in Shanghai and a second China campus will open soon. She also supports women‘s participation in technology, STEM education for girls. An active philanthropist, her company has a major partnership with the One Laptop per Child campaign.

# 10 Mary Meeker

General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Mary Meeker (born September, 1959) is an American [1] venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst. The work that she does is primarily associated with the Internet. She is a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Meeker was born in Portland, Indiana, and holds a B.A. in psychology from DePauw University (1981) and an M.B.A. in finance from Cornell University (1986). In addition, she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from DePauw University.

Meeker has been holding court in Silicon Valley for nearly two decades now. In 2011 the famed Morgan Stanley analyst became a partner at Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers. This step, which she took, landed her at No. 42 on FORBES 2012 Midas List of VC royalty. But it is her reputation for a clear vision in the tech industry that makes her a Power Woman.