it's time for our shift ranking the most successful women in the tech industry in fifth place angela ahrendts senior vice president and one of two senior female board members at apple she was listed in forbes ranking of the most powerful women in the world in twenty fifteen and has been helping to drive apple sales since twenty fourteen. at number four meg whitman until recently president and chief executive officer of hewlett packard enterprise a millionaire activist and philanthropist she proved the appear to me of cool when she took the. in the ice bucket challenge. third. the first woman to serve a c.e.o. and president of the she has degrees in computer science and electrical engineering and started working her way to the top of my b.m. as a systems engineer in. our runner up susan. parrot is google's sixteenth employee in one thousand nine hundred nine she advocated its acquisition of you tube served as you tube c.e.o. since two thousand and six today she has her own channel to share her perspective. number one sheryl sandberg c.e.o. of facebook founder mark zuckerberg close associates a