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- On the rise. Fortune’s annual Most Powerful Women list tracks the women who are on top of corporate America. A new Fortune list keeps tabs on the people who are poised to get there.
The inaugural Fortune Next to Lead: The 25 Most Powerful Rising Executives in the Fortune 500 list highlights 25 leaders to know, including 11 women across the tech, energy, pharmaceutical, and retail sectors. All execs chosen for this list work at Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft and Walmart, leading influential divisions and subsidiaries. They demonstrate vision and leadership and drive positive financial outcomes for their businesses, setting them up to continue to ascend in their careers in the years ahead.
Here are five of the women who made this year’s Most Powerful Rising Executives list:
Leah Anderson, Land O’Lakes
Leah Anderson leads WinField United, the crop inputs and insights business at Land O’Lakes and its largest division. As president, Anderson drives strategy at WinField United, developing innovative products and services for farmers and agricultural retailers. She previously held leadership roles at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, U.S. Bank, and Securian Financial Group and sits on the boards of CropLife America and GreenPoint Ag.
Sarah Bond, Microsoft
As president, Sarah Bond leads operations at Xbox as well as its effort to create a device-agnostic gaming ecosystem. A graduate of Harvard and Yale, and former McKinsey consultant and T-Mobile strategist, Bond joined Microsoft in 2017 and played a key role in its bid to acquire Activision Blizzard. She also serves on the board of Zuora.
Eimear Bonner, Chevron
At Chevron Corp., Eimear Bonner is responsible for global audit and investor relations, as well as tax, treasury, and financial operations. Since joining the company in 1998, she has held several key leadership roles, including general director of Tengizchevroil LLP in Kazakhstan and chief technology officer, a position in which Bonner made history at Chevron as its first woman CTO.
Gina Mastantuono, ServiceNow
Gina Mastantuono leads accounting, investor relations, real estate, and global impact strategy at the workflow automation platform. She was previously EVP and CFO at Ingram Micro, an IT products and services company, and has held senior roles at Revlon. Mastantuono sits on the board of Roblox.
Latriece Watkins, Walmart
Latriece Watkins joined the megaretailer in 1997 as a real estate intern and worked her way up the ranks, serving in many leadership roles at both Walmart and its Sam’s Club division, including senior director of real estate and senior VP of merchandising consumables and OTC. She’s the first woman and person of color to serve as Walmart's chief merchant, one of the most influential jobs in retail, where she oversees product selection and supplier relationships for its U.S. operations. She sits on the board of directors at Live Nation Entertainment.
Read the full list here and check out Fortune’s four-part playbook on what it takes to make it to a future Fortune 500 corner office.
Natalie McCormick
natalie.mccormick@fortune.com
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