Tory Burch
An American businesswoman and philanthropist, Tory Burch has a net worth of more than $10 billion. Her self-titled line of lifestyle products range from accessories to read-to-wear clothing and is said to have benefited greatly from earlier support by Oprah Winfrey. Her fashion label ‘TRB by Tory Burch’ is spread across 120 locations worldwide including flagships in New York, Los Angeles, London, Rome, Tokyo, and Seoul. Alongside Bank of America, this billionaire fashionista launched Street Capital to encourage woman entrepreneurs by providing low-cost capital funding.
Anastasia Leng
Co-founder of Hatch, an innovative online commercial website that lets users customize any product from their curated group of favored artisans. Leng spent more than five years working at Google in New Business Development and Product Marketing. She headed entrepreneurial efforts in Europe for a while and was responsible for initial-stage partnerships for Google, Voice, Chrome as well as Wallet.
Zhang Xin
Zhang and her spouse are billionaire-entrepreneurs with a combined fortune of $3.6 billion and co-founders of SOHO China, a leading Beijing real estate development firm. Under her leadership, the company has been named as one of the most admired companies in China by Forbes. Presently, SOHO China has an investment portfolio spreading across 1.7 million square meters in China’s leading metro cities and is set to become the biggest landlord on the Bund in Shanghai.
Lynn Perkins
Lynn Perkins is the CEO and co-founder of urbansitter.com, a website that entitles parent and sitters to connect online through Facebook and other networks. Prior to founding of Urbansitter, Lynn served as founder and CEO of Xuny.com and VP of Business Development at Bridgepath.com. Lynn gained initial business experience at organizations like Gap Inc., Lasalle Partners, and Joie de Vivre Hospitality. Lynn hints that her next venture may probably be in the transportation industry and is a keen supporter of Elon Musk’s entrepreneurial work.
Sara Blakely
Blakely is the world’s youngest self-made entrepreneur. At 29 Blakely contributed entire life saving, $5,000, attempting create something complimenting to wear under her white slacks. Six months later, her product is named as one of Oprah Winfrey’s Favorite Things. From that point forward Blakely has taken Spanx from single product company sold out of her Atlanta loft to a powerhouse with $250 million in yearly incomes and net overall revenues assessed at 20%.
Yang Lan
Yang Lan is a Chinese media proprietor, journalist, and talk show hostess and one of the most powerful women in Chinese media Lan is the co-founder and chairperson of Sun Media which she established with her second spouse, a Hong Kong media tycoon Bruno Wu. Sun Media has surpassed multiple domains including television, newspapers, magazines and the web. Lan has won multiple awards including “Chinese Women of the Year” award, “Top Ten Women Entrepreneurs” award and “Global Leadership Award” to name a few.
Folorunsho Alakija
Folorunsho Alakija’s journey first began in London where she pursued secretarial studies and fashion design as a young woman. On returning to Nigeria, Alakija founded Supreme Sitiches a tailoring company which quickly rose to distinction amongst Nigeria’s elite class. Alakija also owns 60% stake in Famfa Oil. In 2013, she was appointed the vice chair of Nigeria’s National Heritage Council and Endowment for the Arts.
Diane von Furstenberg
The Belgian-born entrepreneur began designing clothes in 1970 with $30K in capital. Von Furstenberg has since then reached to the top in the world of designing and is currently serving as the president of the trade association of the country’s top 350 designers. In 1997, she re-launched her fashion company dvF, which has now grown to become a global luxury lifestyle brand with presence in over 70 countries. Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation, run by Diane and her husband Barry Diller offers capital for various startups and businesses.
Kelsey Falter
Kelsey Falter is the CEO and founder of Poptip and is considered as one of the most stand-out female entrepreneurs. Falters grew up in a family of entrepreneurs and has sought after the startup life very much since gaining an internship at the Tribune Company, Coca-Cola Company, Office Deport and Saks Fifth. Poptip analyzes social conversation through real-time polls. Since its inception in 2012, Poptip has worked with several big broadcasters and brands, including Budweiser, the NFL and the NBA.
Gwynne Shotwell
Gwynne Shotwell is the president and COO of SpaceX, rocket science is her business. Shotwell manages a senior leadership role, overseeing almost $5 billion in contracts – that incorporates a $1.6 billion agreement with NASA to convey supplies to the International Space Station. She has been with Spacex since its establishing in 2002, and has been in her current role since 2008. Before that, she put in excess of 10 years at Aerospace Corporation and was Director of Microcosm’s Space Systems Division.
