Honored: Top Women to Impact the Global Print Consumables Industry

A list of the most influential women in the print consumables industry has just been released, in time for Women’s Equality Day.

Two women on the list also feature on Forbes Magazine’s list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

Women’s Equality Day commemorates the granting of the vote to women throughout the United States on August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment was certified as law.

RT Media conducted a poll on the most influential women in the print consumables industry, ending up with 14 finalists including scientists, CEOs, publishers and marketers.

The number one place goes to Margaret “Meg” Whitman. Whitman, who is chairwoman, president, and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, and ran for politics using mostly her own money, is currently named 14th in Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

Coming in at second place is Ursula Burns who is Chairwoman and CEO of Xerox. Forbes Magazine also ranks her the 29th most powerful woman in the world. She was the first African-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company.

Three other company CEOs re on the list including Jackie Russin, CEO of RTS Imaging in Australia, and China’s only woman CEO, Mary Ouyang from Mito, one of the top color cartridge remanufacturers in the world.

The list includes 4 magazine editors, including Sunny Sun, Editor of RechargeAsia Magazine, Sand Sinclair, Editor of Image Source Magazine, Susan Nimes, Editor of ENX Magazine and Patricia Ames, Editor of BPO Magazine, all based in the USA. One other woman in a leadership imaging publishing role, based in China, is Violien Wu, Editor of  Recycling Times Magazine, which reaches a global audience in 80 countries and is published in 5 languages including English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Korean.

Two positions are held by trade association leaders: Laura Heywood and Tricia Judge. UKCRA’s Laura Heywood represented the cartridge remanufacturing industry at a parliamentary hearing recently in the UK.

The Imaging Technology Council’s Tricia Judge has sought support of the automotive remanufacturer associations in the US in her fight over unfair first sale and prebate laws relating to printer cartridges.

The final list from the industry poll is as follows:

1. Margaret “Meg” Whitman (Chair, President, and CEO of Hewlett-Packard), USA

2. Ursula M. Burns (Chair and CEO of Xerox), USA

3. Mary Ouyang (CEO, Mito), China

4. Dr. Grazyna Kmiecik Lawrynowicz (Principal Scientist, Xerox), USA

5. Violien Wu (Editor, Recycling Times Magazine), China

6. Sunny Sun, (Editor, RechargeAsia Magazine), USA

7. Sand Sinclair, (Editor, ImageSource Magazine), USA

8. Susan Nimes, (Editor, ENX Magazine), USA

9. Jackie Russin (CEO, RTS Imaging), Australia

10. Tricia Judge (EO, I-ITC trade association), USA

11. Kathy Tripp (Color Image), USA

12. Patricia Ames (Editor, BPO magazine), USA

13. Laura Heywood (EO, UKCRA trade association), UK

14. Merilyn Dunn (Consultant), USA

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