Forbes World’s Most Powerful Women of 2025
Tan Su Shan
- Title: CEO
- Company: DBS
- Location: Singapore
Tan Su Shan became the Group CEO DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank with $637 billion in assets, in March 2025. She first joined the bank in 2010, spending three years building its wealth management business before going on to run DBS’ consumer banking and institutional banking businesses, units that drive some 90% of DBS’ income. Tan is also the founder and president of the Financial Women’s Association in Singapore.
Colette Kress
- Title: CFO and EVP
- Company: Nvidia
- Location: United States
As executive vice president and chief financial officer of Nvidia, Colette Kress has helped oversee one of the greatest revenue growth stories in tech history: In its 2025 fiscal year, the chip making giant recorded $130.5 billion in revenue, more than double what it'd been just one year before. Kress was named to her position in 2013; she’d previously held senior finance roles at Cisco and Microsoft.
Hana al Rostamani
- Title: Group CEO
- Company: First Abu Dhabi Bank
- Location: United Arab Emirates
One of the most powerful executives in the Middle East, Hana al Rostamani has been the Group CEO of First Abu Bank since 2021. She is the first woman to run the bank, which reported $365 billion in assets at the end of the first half of its fiscal 2025. al Rostamani also sits on several boards, including the executive board of the U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council.
Gwynne Shotwell
- Title: President & COO
- Company: SpaceX
- Location: United States
A mechanical engineer by training, Gwynne Shotwell joined SpaceX in 2002 as employee No. 11. Today she is the company’s president and chief operating officer, responsible for scaling it into the globe’s dominant rocket company. By early December 2025, SpaceX had deployed its 3,000th satellite and Shotwell, with an estimated 0.3% stake in the company, had joined the ranks of the world’s billionaires.
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