Top 10 CEOs of 2018: Surprise! Two Indians in top three, Jeff Bezos fails to make top 5
Companies-rating platform Comparably has released the list of best CEOs for 2018 and two Indians have bagged a spot in top three. Surprisingly, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos failed to make it top five. While Microsoft's Satya Nadella bagged the top spot, The Home Depot’s CEO Craig Menear took the second spot. Google’s Chief Executive Officer CEO Sundar Pichai stood at the third place but second among 29 tech firms ranked by the employee ratings. Here is the list of top 10 CEOs for 2018:
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
Born in Hyderabad, Satya Nadella, is an American business executive and the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014. (Reuters)
Craig Menear, The Home Depot
Craig Menear, an American business executive, is the chairman and chief executive officer of The Home Depot an American home improvement supplies retailing company. (Twitter)
Sundar Pichai, Google
Pichai Sundararajan, 46 years old, is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chief executive officer of Google LLC. (Reuters)
Brad Smith, Intuit
Brad D. Smith, an American businessman who is the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of Intuit, a business and financial software company that develops and sells financial, accounting, and tax preparation software. In August 2018, Smith stated that he would step down as Intuit's CEO at the end of 2018 while staying on as the company's executive board chairman. (Website)
Brian Halligan, HubSpot
Brian Halligan, 51, is an American executive and author. He is the CEO and co-founder of HubSpot, a marketing and sales software company based in Cambridge. He is a professor at MIT as well. (Website)
Jeff Bezos, Amazon
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American technology entrepreneur and an investor. He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon and was declared the richest man of 2018. (Reuters)
Bert Bean, Insight Global
Bert Bean the CEO of Insight Global, based in Georgia, United States, started with Insight Global in 2005 as a Recruiter and has since worked his way up within the company. (LinkedIn profile)
Alex Shootman, Workfront
Alex Shootman is the CEO of Workfront which is a Lehi, Utah-based software company that develops web-based work management and project management software. (Twitter)
Marc Russell Benioff, Salesforce
Marc Russell Benioff, is an American billionaire entrepreneur, writer and humanitarian. He is the founder, chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce, an enterprise cloud computing company. (Reuters)
John Legere, T-Mobile
John Legere is an American businessman, aged 60, is the chief executive officer of T-Mobile, US, and serves on the CTIA board of directors. (Reuters)