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Diana S. Ferguson.(Crain's Extra: Forty under 40)(vice-president, treasurer of Sara Lee Corp.)
Crain's Chicago Business, November, 2002 by Neiman, Janet
Byline: JANET NEIMAN AGE: 39. Vice-president and treasurer, Sara Lee Corp. Somewhere en route to becoming a doctor, Diana S. Ferguson took a detour and ended up handling billions of dollars a year as treasurer for one of the world's biggest consumer products companies. Ms. Ferguson, who grew up in Hyde Park, was a psychology major at Yale University on a pre-med track that would have taken her in the same direction as her father, an internist, and her mother, a nurse.
She'd already been accepted to Yale Medical School when she joined the flock of other Yalies at an IBM Corp.-sponsored Career Day. Wowed by the company's training program and business career path, she struck out on a life-changing course. And, although recruited by IBM as a marketing rep, Ms....
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