Your Favorite Women August 2007

Melody Hobson, President of Ariel Capital , was our most searched for executive on Newsonwomen.com in August,07. Ellen Alemany, CEO of RBS America, Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry's, and Wei Christianson of Morgan Stanley were also among the top five women searched for in August,07. Major companies appointing women to senior executive positions this month included Yahoo!, General Electric, Bank of America, Jenny Craig, Chrysler, Illinois Tool Works, Borders Group, Prudential Financial, HSBC, Peoples Bancorp, Accenture, The Gap, Reader's Digest, and UPS International. Women were made General Counsel at Pacific Life, Barnes & Noble and Qualcomm. New Media, Marketing and tech jobs were also the order of the day, as companies like uBid.com, TBWA, Terra Technology, Jamster, BuzzNet and New Motion added women executives to their teams.