安吉拉•布拉利

    所在公司：Wellpoint

    职务：首席执行官，总裁，董事长

    公司500强排名：135

    安吉拉•布莱利出生于达拉斯，在德州理工大学（Texas Tech University）获得学士学位之后继续前往南卫理公会大学法学院（Southern Methodist University School of Law）深造。

    三年前，布莱利曾回到她的本科母校，与大家分享了她的故事。在她看来，自己之所以能走上首席执行官的岗位，法学院的经历功不可没，尽管有点无心插柳的意味。

    “正是律师这一行业将我带到了蓝十字与蓝盾协会（Blue Cross Blue Shield），”布莱利说，“我当时就任该公司密苏里州的总法律顾问，之后担任该公司密苏里州的总裁，再之后成为了该公司母公司的总裁兼首席执行官”

    作为3个孩子的母亲，在公司中平步轻云并不容易。在家人的全力支持下，她成功地打理着WellPoint。2010年，该公司创造的运营收入已经超过578亿美元。

    Angela F. Braly

    Company: WellPoint, Inc.

    Position: CEO, president, chair

    Global 500 Rank: 135

    Born in Dallas, Angela Braly followed up her undergraduate years at Texas Tech University by heading to law school at Southern Methodist University School of Law.

    Three years ago, Braly returned to her undergraduate alma mater and shared that law school was a helpful, albeit incidental, factor in shaping her path to the CEO's chair.

    "It was practicing law that led me into the Blue Cross Blue Shield system," Braly said. "I became general counsel of Blue Cross Blue Shield in Missouri, then president in Missouri, and worked my way up to president and CEO of the parent company [WellPoint]."

    With three children, climbing the corporate ladder hasn't always been easy. But Braly's family has been supportive, allowing her to lead WellPoint, which generated operating revenue in excess of $57.8 billion in 2010.