Mary Aron /Mary AronWARWICK – Mary Aron’s career path began at a young age: She was 5 when she gave her first haircut to her friend, another 5-year-old.

This list represents women who currently hold CEO positions at companies on the 2013 Fortune 500 list of the nation’s largest publicly held companies. According to Catalyst’s May 8, 2013 posting, women currently hold 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and 4.5 percent of Fortune 1000 CEO positions.

Bonnie Kaplan /Bonnie KaplanEAST GREENWICH – Bonnie Kaplan is a real estate agent and relocation specialist with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.

Karen Gail Kessler /Mary HanleyWARWICK – Karen Gail Kessler is director of marketing & public relations for Ocean State Theatre Company. She’s been with the company since it reopened Theatre By The Sea in 2007 and moved to its new state-of-the-art venue in Warwick, which opened in December.