聆听2011年世界500强公司女掌门的最强音

帕特•沃尔茨

所在公司：ADM（Archer Daniels Midland）

职务：首席执行官

公司500强排名：122

    出生于西宾夕法尼亚州的帕特•沃尔茨自幼就对商界有着浓厚的兴趣。

    2006年，沃尔茨曾向《财富》杂志（Fortune）透露，“我母亲曾在学校当图书管理员，她觉得暑假是继续学习的好时节，”炎炎夏日，沃尔茨的暑假都泡在诸如亨氏（Heinz）番茄酱工厂和美国钢铁公司（U.S. Steel mill），她觉得生产过程奇妙无比。

    时间很快来到1974年，沃尔茨从宾州州立大学（Penn State University）毕业并取得了会计学学位。随后她进入匹兹堡市的安永会计事务所（Ernst & Young）担任咨询师。几年后跳槽到海湾石油公司（Gulf Oil）。

    1984年，海湾石油和雪佛龙（Chevron）合并之后，沃尔茨结识了很多新朋友并最终决定加入雪佛龙石油，负责公司的“下游”业务。

    虽然她认为自己已经具备就任首席执行官的条件，但是要等雪佛龙当时的CEO大卫•欧雷利退休还需数年的时间，因此，她在2006年2月毅然辞掉了那份工作。

    当年4月，史宾沙公司（Spencer Stuart）的汤姆•内福致电沃尔茨，商谈就任ADM公司首席执行官事宜。此后的事就人尽皆知了。

    除了担任ADM公司（Archer Daniels Midland）的首席执行官，沃尔茨同时还是宝洁公司（Procter & Gamble）以及美中商会（U.S.-China Business Council）董事会成员。对了，此外她还是3个孩子的母亲。

Patricia A. Woertz

Company: Archer Daniels Midland

Position: CEO

Global 500 Rank: 122

    Western-Pennsylvanian Patricia Woertz was interested in the corporate world from an early age.

    "Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education," Woertz told Fortune in 2006. Spending the sweaty vacation days in gems like a Heinz ketchup plant or a U.S. Steel mill, she found the production process fascinating.

    Fast forward to 1974. Woertz graduated from Penn State University with a degree in accounting. She became a consultant at Ernst & Young in Pittsburgh and moved to Gulf Oil several years later.

    After Gulf and Chevron merged in 1984, Woertz created many new contacts and eventually made a move to Chevron, taking charge of the company's "downstream" operation.

    Ready for a CEO position, but realizing that then-Chevron CEO David O'Reilly was several years from retiring, she stepped down from her position in February 2006.

    The following April, Tom Neff of Spencer Stuart called Woertz and discussed a CEO opportunity at ADM. The rest is history.

    As CEO, Woertz has led ADM while serving on the boards of directors of Procter & Gamble and the U.S.-China Business Council. Oh, and she's a mother to three children.