- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …
- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …
- Steve Ballmer
Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates . Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company.
- Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor.
- Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate selected by President George W. Bush. Previously, he served as White House Chief of Staff, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, and Secretary of Defense. In the private sector, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services.
- Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.
- Rick Wagoner
George Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Jr. (born February 9, 1953) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Rick Wagoner was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia and graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University in 1975 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977. After Harvard, he joined GM as an analyst in the treasurer's office.
- Donald Tsang
born October 7, 1944) has been the Chief Executive of Hong Kong since 2005. A civil servant since 1967, Tsang had occupied various positions in finance and trade in the Hong Kong Civil Service, and was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995, becoming the first ethnic Chinese to hold the position in the British colonial administration.
- Tung Chee Hwa
The Honourable Tung Chee Hwa, GBM, D.S.Sc."(honoris causa)" ; <small></small> (born July 7, 1937 in Shanghai, China) was the first elected Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Before the handover Tung was known as a conservative businessman with traditional Chinese values and strong connections to the Central Government.
- Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, …
- Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.
- Carlos Ghosn
Carlos Ghosn is CEO of Renault and Nissan Motors. He is largely credited with turning around Nissan. As an outsider in charge of one of Japan's largest companies, Ghosn has been extremely successful. He was voted Man of the Year 2003 by "Fortune" magazine's Asian edition and is also on the board of Alcoa, Sony, and IBM. Ghosn became CEO of Renault, Nissan's partner and shareholder, in 2005, succeeding Louis Schweitzer, while remaining CEO of Nissan as well.
- Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson (born July 31 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2006, and a former chief executive of Channel 4. Born in London and brought up in Hertfordshire, he went to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and Merton College, Oxford, where he took a first in English. He now lives in Oxford with his American wife Jane, and has three children.
- Meg Whitman
Another dreamy CEO choice, except she has already been a big company CEO at eBay (EBAY), has proved her mettle in building it to a powerhouse-despite the online auction site's currently harder times-and has the giant fortune to prove it. And, oh yes, she is likely to be using that pile of cash to run for governor of California, on the Republican ticket.
- Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf (born August 11 , 1943 , Delhi , India ) became ruler (head of state/chief executive) of Pakistan on October 12 , 1999 following a bloodless coup d'AAtat . He assumed the office of President of Pakistan on June 20 , 2001 . In order to legitimize and legalize his rule, he held a referendum on April 30 , 2002 thereby elected as President of Pakistan for duration of five years.
- Terry Semel
Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting.
- Stuart Rose
STUART Rose , chief executive at Marks & Spencer, has nearly doubled his year-end bonus to £2.6 million after returning the once struggling retailer to health.
- Charles Prince
Charles O. "Chuck" Prince, III, born January_13, 1950, is the chief executive officer of Citigroup. Before taking over Citi's investment banking business, Prince had been Chief Operating Officer for Citigroup. He started his career as an attorney with U.S. Steel Corp in 1975. In 1979, he joined Commercial Credit Co., a predecessor to Citigroup that Sandy Weill took over in 1986. From there, as Weill put together his financial empire, Prince was with him every step.
- John Chambers
John T. Chambers is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc.. Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Operations. Since January 1995, when he assumed the role of CEO, Chambers has grown the company from $1.2 billion in annual revenues to its current run-rate of approximately $30 billion. In November 2006, he was named Chairman of the Board, in addition to his CEO role.
- David Leckie
David Leckie (b.14 February 1956) is the Chief Executive Officer of the Seven Media Group. David Leckie was educated at Newington College and is an Economics graduate of Macquarie University. Prior to his appointment by Kerry Stokes to Seven, he was associated with the Nine Network for 23 years. Having joined GTV-9 (Melbourne) as a sales executive, he was promoted to National Sales Manager, then Nine Network Sales Director in 1982 at TCN-9 (Sydney).
- Michael Eisner
Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) was CEO of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005. He began his career at ABC, became President of Paramount Pictures in 1976, and then assumed the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Co. in 1984.
- Jack Welch
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. (born November 19 1935) was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch gained a solid reputation for uncanny business acumen and unique leadership strategies at GE. During his tenure, GE increased its market capitalization by over $400 billion. He remains a highly-regarded figure in business circles due to his innovative management strategies and leadership style. His net-worth is estimated at $720 million.
- Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 - July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely-reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001. Lay was the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1986 until his resignation on January 23, 2002, except for a few months in 2001 when he was chairman and Jeffrey Skilling was CEO.
- Martin Sorrell
Sir Martin Sorrell (born 14 February, 1945 in London) is an English businessman, currently the chief executive officer of WPP Group and has served in that role since he started the company in 1986.
- Jamie Dimon
James "Jamie" Dimon (born March 13, 1956) became CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. on January 1, 2006. He succeeded William B. Harrison, Jr., who became the company's chairman. Dimon succeeded Harrison as Chairman of JPMorgan on January 1, 2007, following Harrison's retirement.
- John Deere
John Deere (February 7, 1804 - May 17, 1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company- the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world.
- Brian Barwick
Brian Barwick is the current Chief Executive of The Football Association. He has held the post since January 2005. Previously, he spent 18 years at the BBC, and was ITV's Controller of Sport for seven years. Born in Liverpool, Barwick gained a degree in Economics at Manchester University.
- Howard Stringer
Sir Howard Stringer (born 1942) is a British businessman and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Corporation. Previously he was chief executive of Sony Corporation of America before being promoted to the highest post. Born in Cardiff, Wales, and educated at Oundle School and Merton College, Oxford University where he was awarded a BA in modern history and an MA, Stringer moved to the USA in 1965 to work for CBS.
- Warren Buffet
Warren Edward Buffett (b. August 30 1930, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessperson and philanthropist. Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments managed through the holding company Berkshire Hathaway, of which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. With an estimated current net worth of around US$52 billion, he was ranked by "Forbes" as the third-richest person in the world as of April 2007, …
- Terry Leahy
Sir Terry Leahy Chief Executive - Tesco Plc Terry Leahy , who is 50, was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco Plc in March 1997. He was educated at St Edward's College, Liverpool and then went on to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology where he gained his BSc (Hons) in management sciences. Mr Leahy joined Tesco in 1979 as a Marketing Executive and was promoted to Marketing Manager in 1981.
- Scott McNealy
Scott McNealy is chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, a company he co-founded in 1982 and chairman of Sun Federal Inc. McNealy grew Sun from a Silicon Valley start-up to a leading provider of network computing infrastructure with 37,900 employees worldwide, all while positioning the Company as the model of corporate integrity. A champion of Sun's 24-year old strategy to share, McNealy is always fighting for openness and choice: "Without choice, you have no innovation.
- Malcolm Speed
Malcolm Walter Speed (born 14 September 1948) is an Australian businessman and the current CEO of the International Cricket Council. Before he entered the world of cricket, he was a barrister in Melbourne. He was originally the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Cricket Board from 1997 to 2001. In 2001 he took up the job of the CEO of the International Cricket Council, and has worked with two Presidents of the ICC, Ehsan Mani & Percy Sonn.
- Jeroen van der Veer
</gallery>;Jeroen van der Veer (born October 27, 1947 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is the CEO of oil company Royal Dutch Shell. Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United Kingdom. Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from Delft University with a MSc in mechanical engineering and went on to earn a MSc in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Stan O'Neal
E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006.
- Gordon Smith
Gordon Duffield Smith (born Kilwinning December 29 1954) was a football player who played for Rangers F.C. and Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. and until worked as a football agent and BBC football pundit. On 1 June 2007, Smith was confirmed as the new chief executive of the Scottish Football Association.
- Martin O'Neill
Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill, OBE, (born March 1 1952 in Kilrea, Northern Ireland) is a former Northern Ireland national football team captain who has previously managed Wycombe Wanderers, Norwich City, Leicester City and Celtic and is currently manager of Aston Villa.
- Glenn Tilton
Glenn Tilton (born April 1948 in Washington, DC) is the Chairman, President, and CEO of UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines. He has held this role since September 2002, 3 months before UAL Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. He came to UAL from ChevronTexaco, where he was working since 1970. Glenn Tilton originally was going to follow his father's footsteps and join the government.
- Jeff Immelt
Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001. Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. A couple years later, in 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer.
- Tony Hayward
Dr Anthony Hayward CCMI (born 1957) is the Chief Executive of oil and energy company BP Group, taking over from John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley on 1 May, 2007.