59 | Music Agent, CAA

Jenna Park Adler has carved her own lane at CAA: When she got her first job at the talent agency in the early 1990s, there were no female music agents. Today, her roster reads like a who’s who of music: Charli xcx, Olivia Dean, Shania Twain, Hilary Duff and more. She was the force behind Green Day’s two-year Saviors Tour (which concluded in 2025 and reportedly grossed $400 million). This year she has also been instrumental in Olivia Dean’s first arena tour, Jennifer Lopez’s Las Vegas residency and Doja Cat’s global arena tour.

72 | Owner & Chair, Jackson Family Wines

Barbara Banke is chair and proprietor of Jackson Family Wines, which she owns with her and her late husband Jess's blended family of five children. Together, they built the business—best known for its signature Kendall-Jackson wines from Sonoma—since the mid-1980s. Today, the company owns La Crema and nearly 40 other wineries in California, Oregon, Chile, Italy and beyond. Banke also helps lead the family's Stonestreet Farms racing stables, with horses on farms in Kentucky and Florida (with Grade 1 winners that include Curlin, Rachel Alexandra and Good Magic). A former land-use lawyer, Banke met Jess Jackson when they were law partners at the same firm.

52 | Co-CEO & Co-founder, The Lumistella Company

Chanda Bell was working as a middle school teacher when she and her twin sister, Christa Pitts, turned a cherished family holiday tradition into a business. Inspired by a magical elf that reports children' s behavior to Santa in the North Pole, they created The Elf on the Shelf: a children's book paired with a toy. Today, it has grown into one of the world's biggest holiday brands. The Lumistella Company (the holding company for Elf on the Shelf) has more than 100 licensees around the world and sells its wares across 36 countries.

55 | CEO, Direct Travel

Christal Bemont took the helm of business travel management company Direct Travel in 2024 and almost immediately supercharged its reach: She spearheaded the acquisition of partner company ATPI to create a combined travel juggernaut with more than $6 billion in annual sales. She joined Direct Travel after serving as CEO of data platform Talend, which she led through a $2.4 billion take-private deal. Earlier in her career, Belmont spent 15 years at Concur, where she rose through the ranks to become chief revenue officer, overseeing a $2 billion business.

62 | Founder & Owner, Magnolia Pearl

A purse made with kite strings proved to be the unofficial start to a clothing brand that is beloved for its artistic flare: In 2001, Robin Brown sold that purse for just $100, and a year later she officially launched boho brand Magnolia Pearl. Today, the company has scaled to 1,400 employees with 400 retail partners around the world, and its wares are favored by A-listers including Taylor Swift (who wore one of Brown’s designs in the photoshoot for her Folklore album). “If I lived to be 300,” Brown writes in her 2025 memoir, “I still wouldn’t have time to make everything I’ve imagined.”

71 | Founding Partner, Entertainment 360

Suzan Bymel co-founded Entertainment 360 in 2002 and helped grow it from a boutique management company into one of Hollywood's leading talent management and production firms. Long known for representing stars including Anne Hathaway, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kiefer Sutherland, Bymel helped expand the firm’s model beyond traditional representation to include producing, brand partnerships and long-term business opportunities. In 2025, she led Entertainment 360 through its first outside investment in 22 years, a landmark strategic partnership with private equity firm Carlyle.

88 | Co-founder, VP Records

Known as the “matriarch of reggae,” Miss Pat—as she is often called—is responsible for building VP Records into the world’s largest independent reggae record label. What began as a small music outfit in Jamaica, Queens, that Chin co-ran with her husband is today a label with offices in New York, Miami and London with artist alumni like Shaggy, Sean Paul and Patoranking. Earlier this summer, VP Records notched its first entry on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart in five years with Buju Banton’s “Too Too Bad.”

69 | Co-founder, Gimme Seaweed

Annie Chun co-founded Gimme Seaweed in 2012 as a way to bring a traditional Korean snack to a U.S. audience. Fourteen years later, Gimme Seaweed has grown into the top organic seaweed brand in the country with market share north of 50%. The company’s roasted seaweed snacks are distributed through Amazon, Target, Walmart, Instacart and other top retailers. Chun started Gimme Seaweed after selling her prior company, Asian food brand Annie Chun’s, in 2009 to Korean food manufacturer CJ Corp. for $6 million.

57 | Founder, The Pioneer Woman

Ree Drummond transformed life on her family's Oklahoma cattle ranch into one of America's most successful food and lifestyle brands. She launched The Pioneer Woman as a blog in 2006, sharing recipes, family stories and snippets of ranch life before building it into a multimedia empire that includes a long-running Food Network series, bestselling cookbooks, restaurants and a popular home goods line. Drummond continues to film The Pioneer Woman from the family's working ranch, where generations of the Drummond family have raised cattle.

54 | Chief Athlete Officer, LA28; California Sports Hall of Fame

Five-time Olympic swimming medalist Janet Evans is the first-ever Chief Athlete Officer for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. She is responsible for designing the athlete experience at the first U.S. Summer Olympics in 32 years, overseeing everything from housing and training logistics, to transportation and family support. A long-time advocate for equality in sports, Evans also founded the LA28 Olympian and Paralympian Fellowship Program, which supports retired Olympic and Paralympic athletes transition to new careers.

57 | Founder, Nakery Beauty

Liz Folce founded Nakery Beauty at 53 after more than three decades in the beauty industry, building a self-funded brand dedicated to the beauty and body care needs of women over 50. Drawing on years of conversations with customers as a Estee Lauder counter beauty advisor, Folce created products designed to address real concerns she believed had long been overlooked by the beauty industry. Since launching in 2022, Nakery has become HSN's No. 1 beauty brand, surpassed $20 million in sales last year and also expanded into retailers including Ulta Beauty.

59 | President & Executive Creative Director, AE & Aerie

Jennifer Foyle transformed Aerie from a $225 million intimates brand into a $2 billion business while making authenticity central to the brand's identity. She championed the retailer's pioneering 2014 AerieREAL campaign, which pledged to stop retouching models in its advertising years before body positivity became an industry norm. More than a decade later, she extended that commitment into the AI era, spearheading Aerie's pledge not to use AI generated people or bodies in its marketing. As president and executive creative director of AE & Aerie, she continues to shape the brand's creative vision and long-term strategy.

53 | Composer & Pianist

Gabriela Lena Frank won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Picaflor: A Future Myth, a modern symphonic work inspired by Andean mythology, her Peruvian heritage and the impacts of climate change. Throughout her career, Frank has drawn on Latin American folklore, Indigenous traditions and her multicultural heritage in her compositions. Born with profound hearing loss, she has said that silence is........

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