Nicolasa Gladys Cusirramos de Reynoso
Moquegua  

She has a business that produces macerates prepared with liquor and fruits.  She currently produces more than 5 thousand bottles of 9 types of macerates.
In 2007, she installed her shop for Pisco and in 2008 she started the preparation of semi-sec wines, burgundy, muscatel and sweet wines.

Recognitions:

• Roll of Honor for Women 2008, category of Business Competitiveness. Recognition event organized by the Ministry of Women and Social Development.
• First Positions in the Peru Tourism Fair that took place at the Jockey Plaza Shopping Center (2005, 2006 y 2007).
• Client Services Category; in the Tourist Fair of the Southern Region (Arequipa 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007).
• Recognition from the Ministry of Work for being the most outstanding business from the Moquegua Region during the Microenterprise Day (2006 and 2007).
• First place in the 9th National Macerates Contest.
• First Place for Innovation – Moquegua Region – in the Fair conducted by Promperu (2007).

Lilia Encarnación Gamarra Samanez
Apurímac

Widower for 17 years and with 4 children, she is dedicated to the business activity on the agro-industrial field for more than 20 years.  She outstands in the agro-husbandry field, raising milk cattle and manufacturing dairy products (cheese, yogurt, butter, etc.).  She also produces beans, potato, corn, etc.
She conducts manufacturing activities and crafts made out from burlapping, using pieces of cloth and Andean and indigenous fabrics that are exported to Australia and Italy.  She is the driving force and creator of Abancay Social Action Feminine Association (AFASA).

Recognitions:

• Roll of Honor for Women 2008, category of Business Competitiveness. Recognition event organized by the Ministry of Women and Social Development.
• First place in the contest "Agriculture towards modernity" organized by PANTEL. (1996).
• Recognition by the Tourism Directorate (DIRECTUR) given her outstanding production work in the Apurimac Region.

She is Chair of the Figaro Coffee. This coffee chain has 54 shops: 54 in Philipines and two in Shangai, China.  She is the Executive Director of the Figaro Foundation, which promotes the defense of the companies from the coffee industry, from the Social Corporate Responsibility perspective.
Achievements and recognitions:

• In 2003, she was elected as one of the 10 Best Businesses of the year in Philipines.
• In 2004, Figaro Coffee received an award to the Best Small Enterprise of the Year by Ernst & Young.

Bárbara Mc Geoch
Australia

She is Director from a Group of the Birkdale Internacional Business Corporation. She chairs a chain of stores and companies dedicated to horticulture and plant export in Australia, China, Hong Kong and Macau. Her company has excelled because for providing the architecture of the landscapes of thematic parks as famous as Disneyland in Hong Kong. Some of her renowned clients are the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam and the Emperor of Japan.

• Bárbara’s secret for success is an environmentally responsible work and the respect for the culture of every region where she has worked.

Achievements and recognitions:

• She has been awarded for her contribution to increasing exports in Australia in 1999.
• Best Business Women of the year in 2002, recognition awarded in Saint Petersburg.