It's been quite a year for Best Buy CEO Corie Barry.
Not only did Barry take the helm of the Minnesota-based, Top 100 company, she is now on a prestigious list of influential women.
Barry is number 18 on the new Fortune Magazine 'Most Powerful Women' list. "The 44-year-old Barry, who also serves on the board of Domino’s Pizza, is charged with not just keeping Best Buy relevant as Amazon and other e-commerce players crowd in but also growing its sales both in stores and online," Fortune says.
Marilyn Hewson, CEO of aircraft giant Lockheed Martin holds the top spot on the list, followed by GM's Mary Bara and Abigail Johnson of Fidelity Investments.
Barry took over as Best Buy CEO in June, the first female to lead the Minnesota-based company and the youngest female CEO in the Fortune 100. She is also a proud Minnesota native, whose unique upbringing in Cambridge is one more thing that sets her apart.
“My parents were both self-employed artists,” Barry told KARE 11's Julie Nelson in an illuminating and wide-ranging interview. “We would load up the van, get in, drive across the country and set everything up sell art all day take it all down and do it the next day. I treasured growing up that way but I didn't think I wanted to live that way necessarily in my life.”