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Chief executive officer, Smith Barney

Nationality: American.

Born: 1965, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BA, 1987; Columbia University, MBA, 1992.

Family: Daughter of Leonard Krawcheck (attorney); married Gary Appel (merchant banker); children: two.

Career: Salomon Brothers, research analyst; Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, corporate finance associate; Sanford C. Bernstein, 1994–1999, senior equity research analyst; 1999–2001, research director; 2001–2002, chief executive officer; Smith Barney, 2002–, chief executive officer.

Awards: Honored by the Financial Women's Association as...