After jobs planning strategy at Motorola, the Boston Consulting Group and Asea Brown Boveri, she joined PepsiCo in 1994.

FORBES: A General in Waiting?

Assets: Over 4% of ABB, parent of Swiss-Swedish Asea Brown Boveri.

FORBES: Europe

Anwar publicly acknowledged there was friction between tycoon Ting Pek Khiing's Ekran company, which is handling the project, and the main contractor, the Swiss-Swedish firm of Asea Brown Boveri.

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ABB, the company that arose from the 1988 merger of the Swedish firm ASEA and the Swiss one Brown Boveri, is hoping to get a lot more business like that.

FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

Continuing a long-term strategy, ABB Asea Brown Boveri is cutting 10, 000 jobs in Europe and America, an 8% reduction, and moving more production to Asia, where a quarter of its orders originated last year.

ECONOMIST: Battered

Mr Leutwiler chose to become chairman of Brown Boveri, an ailing Swiss manufacturing company, and guided through its merger with Asea of Sweden to become Asea Brown Boveri, one of the world's leading engineering companies.

ECONOMIST: Fritz Leutwiler