帕特?沃爾茨

所在公司：ADM（Archer Daniels Midland）

職務(wù)：首席執(zhí)行官

公司500強(qiáng)排名：122

????出生于西賓夕法尼亞州的帕特?沃爾茨自幼就對(duì)商界有著濃厚的興趣。

????2006年，沃爾茨曾向《財(cái)富》雜志（Fortune）透露，“我母親曾在學(xué)校當(dāng)圖書(shū)管理員，她覺(jué)得暑假是繼續(xù)學(xué)習(xí)的好時(shí)節(jié)，”炎炎夏日，沃爾茨的暑假都泡在諸如亨氏（Heinz）番茄醬工廠和美國(guó)鋼鐵公司（U.S. Steel mill），她覺(jué)得生產(chǎn)過(guò)程奇妙無(wú)比。

????時(shí)間很快來(lái)到1974年，沃爾茨從賓州州立大學(xué)（Penn State University）畢業(yè)并取得了會(huì)計(jì)學(xué)學(xué)位。隨后她進(jìn)入匹茲堡市的安永會(huì)計(jì)事務(wù)所（Ernst & Young）擔(dān)任咨詢(xún)師。幾年后跳槽到海灣石油公司（Gulf Oil）。

????1984年，海灣石油和雪佛龍（Chevron）合并之后，沃爾茨結(jié)識(shí)了很多新朋友并最終決定加入雪佛龍石油，負(fù)責(zé)公司的“下游”業(yè)務(wù)。

????雖然她認(rèn)為自己已經(jīng)具備就任首席執(zhí)行官的條件，但是要等雪佛龍當(dāng)時(shí)的CEO大衛(wèi)?歐雷利退休還需數(shù)年的時(shí)間，因此，她在2006年2月毅然辭掉了那份工作。

????當(dāng)年4月，史賓沙公司（Spencer Stuart）的湯姆?內(nèi)福致電沃爾茨，商談就任ADM公司首席執(zhí)行官事宜。此后的事就人盡皆知了。

????除了擔(dān)任ADM公司（Archer Daniels Midland）的首席執(zhí)行官，沃爾茨同時(shí)還是寶潔公司（Procter & Gamble）以及美中商會(huì)（U.S.-China Business Council）董事會(huì)成員。對(duì)了，此外她還是3個(gè)孩子的母親。

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.