KIMBERLY DALY Microsoft Manager
Daly paced herself to run the Paris Marathon, but when it comes to climbing Microsoft's corporate ladder, the 36-year-old sprints. In a decade she advanced from account rep to head of the company's largest domestic sales region. During the three years Daly was general manager for the New York--New Jersey district, sales in the business-products line shot up 114%. This summer, Daly hopped to Paris to run the company's $500 million communications division, covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
DAVID MACKAY Cereal COO
Kellogg Co. has a new COO--Mackay, 48, a New Zealand native who had...