Rosalind G. Brewer is the President and CEO of Sam’s Club (a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.). She was born in 1962, a native of Detroit, United States. She attended Detroit Cass technical High School, and proceeded to Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry. She attended an advanced management program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and she is a graduate of the Director’s College at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business/Stanford Law School. Prior to joining Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Rosalind served as a high-impact strategist with experience spanning global manufacturing operations, research and development, marketing and strategic business unit leadership. She started her career as a scientist in Nonwoven Technology and Product Development of Kimberly-Clark Corp., and eventually became vice president of the Nonwoven Fabrics Business, where she revitalized an underperforming business unit and grew sales by…

Asnath Mahapa was fascinated by planes as a teenager; little did she know she would break boundaries with them by becoming South Africa’s first African female pilot.

“It just dawned on me that those big things that we see in the skies, someone is actually in charge of them,” she told CNN. “I thought if someone can fly this thing that means I can also do it.”