Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 04TOP 120 Chief Executive Officers TABLE OF CONTENTs 01 Why...... 3 02 Concept...... 3 03 A Brief Disclaimer...... 4 04 Top 120 Chief Executive Officers...... 5 The idea behind the creation of this list was simple; we wanted one unified document that ranked influencers based on the WHY same scale.

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During the creation of this list, the singular most important question we had to answer was, what’s the best indicator of an influencer? Unfortunately there’s no easy answer; CONCEPT arguments can be made for a wide variety of metrics.

Total followers, number of As is often the case, people use interactions, total reach, engagement social media as a way to validate activity, and a host of other data their ego and vanity, but True Reach 02 points could be used . What we cuts though that . Rather than ultimately chose was a unique simply counting how many people measuring tool called “True Reach are actively following an account, which was devised by Klear . While True Reach measures how many users of social media will often people have seen a status update point to their follower count as an or post across multiple social media indicator of how influential they are, accounts; which provides a much it’s easy to debunk that as a valuable more accurate picture of what metric . someone’s influence looks like.

3 A Brief Disclaimer

Before diving into the influencers, Because of this criteria, we were there’s something important to note forced to omit some great leaders about this group that hasn’t been that we wanted to include . But an issue in other influencer lists. because this is a data driven 03 There were a number of people list, predicated on having social who we had marked for this list influence, we simply couldn’t include that unfortunately did not have those already mentioned, and a social media profiles. To make our number of other influencers who we list, influencers must have at least admire . a account, page, or some sort of public blog (that So, with that being said, let’s take a isn’t on Linkedin) with subscribers. look at the Top 193 CEO Influencers.

4 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 8,963,808 98/100 56,129,281 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 01

William Henry Gates III is a co-founder of Microsoft and is an American business magnate, , author and philanthropist. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the world’s largest PC software company .

@BillGates .com/in/williamhgates/ [email protected]

2,528,309 99/100 13,538,367 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 02

Born in South Africa in 1971, Elon Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his , Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers . He achieved more success by founding X com. in 1999, SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003.

@elonmusk [email protected] / [email protected]

5 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 2,528,309 98/100 13,094,469 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 03 Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor and philanthropist . He founded the Virgin Group, which controls more than 400 companies.

@richardbranson linkedin.com/in/rbranson/ [email protected]

2,528,309 96/100 5,797,266 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 04 Tim Cook

Tim Cook graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering in 1982, and went on to earn an M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in the late ‘80s.Tim Cook took over for the late as Apple’s CEO in August 2011. Prior to that, Cook served as Apple’s chief operating officer.

@tim_cook [email protected]

6 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,149,886 97/100 7,222,696 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 05

Mark Cuban is an American businessman, investor, author, television personality, and philanthropist. He is the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment and chairman of the AXS TV.

@mcuban linkedin.com/in/mark-cuban-06a0755b/

1,149,886 97/100 4,449,596 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 06 John Legere

John J. Legere is an American businessman who is the chief executive officer and president of T-Mobile US. He previously served as an executive for AT&T, , Global Crossing, and serves on the CTIA .

@JohnLegere

7 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 678,287 93/100 4,927,322 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 07 Anand Mahindra

Anand Mahindra is currently the Chairman of the Mahindra Group. Founded as a steel trading company in 1945, theGroup today is a global federation of companies united by a common purpose – to enable people to ‘Rise’.

@anandmahindra linkedin.com/in/anand-mahindra-a5959798/ [email protected]

510,380 97/100 1,628,695 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 08 Saygin Yalcin

Saygin is the Founder & CEO of the Middle East’s (ME) first & largest car buying service, SellAnyCar.com and Founder of the first & largest online private shopping club in the ME, Sukar.com, which has been acquired by Souq.com in Apr’12, making him Partner at the Souq.com and Jabbar Internet Group, becoming the largest ecommerce company in the Arab world, with 3000+ employees .

@SayginYalcin linkedin.com/in/sayginyalcin/ [email protected]

8 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 465,890 99/100 6,922,76 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 9 Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk, is an American serial entrepreneur, four-time New York Times bestselling author, speaker and internationally recognized internet personality .

@garyvee linkedin.com/in/garyvaynerchuk/ [email protected]

378,251 93/100 1,731,855 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 10 Najam Sethi

Najam Aziz Sethi is a Pakistani journalist and a left-leaning political commentator who serves as the editor- in-chief of The Friday Times, hosts the primetime current affairs show Aapas ki Baat on Geo TV.

@najamsethi

9 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 328,342 96/100 3,043,397 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 11 Biz Stone

Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Twitter. A progenitor of social media, Stone has beendeveloping large scale systems that facilitate the open exchange of information for more than fifteen years .

@biz linkedin.com/in/bizstone/ [email protected]

303,477 93/100 1,153,426 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 12 Pavel Durov

Pavel Valeryevich Durov is a Russian entrepreneur who is best known for being the founder of the social networking site VK, and later the Messenger. He is the younger brother of .

@durov linkedin.com/in/durov/

10 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 264,961 97/100 1,281,447 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 13 LA Reid

Antonio Marquis “L.A.” Reid is an American music executive, musician, songwriter, record producer, author and former television music competition judge .

@LA_Reid linkedin.com/in/la-reid-76348542/ [email protected]

250,617 97/100 1,872,105 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 14 Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose is a serial entrepreneur and technology investor . He has been featured on the cover of Inc . Magazine, BusinessWeek, and RedHerring. Kevin was named a “Top 25 Angel ” by Bloomberg, “Top 25 Web Celebrities” by Forbes, “Top 35 Innovators” by MIT, and “Top 25 Most Influential People on the Web” by Time and BusinessWeek magazines .

@kevinrose linkedin.com/in/kevinrose/ [email protected]

11 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 246,652 93/100 1,987,994 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 15 Tim O’Reilly

Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media (formerly O’Reilly & Associates.) Technical book publisher who learned that the right way to market my books was to market the technologies behind them .

@timoreilly linkedin.com/in/timo3/ [email protected] / [email protected]

234,426 98/100 1,331,606 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 16 Carly Fiorina

Cara Carleton Fiorina is an American businessperson and political candidate, known primarily for her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. She subsequently served as Chair of the philanthropic organization Good360.

@CarlyFiorina linkedin.com/in/carly2016/

12 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 199,610 94/100 1,560,612 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 17 Kevin Systrom

Kevin Systrom is an American entrepreneur and programmer, best known as the co‑founder of along with Mike Krieger

@kevin linkedin.com/in/kevinsystrom/ [email protected]

190,991 93/100 1,455,519 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 18 Tony Fernandes

Tan Sri Anthony Francis “Tony” Fernandes, CBE is a Malaysian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., who introduced the first budget no-frills airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline “Now everyone can fly”.

@tonyfernandes linkedin.com/in/tony-fernandes-4a21a26/ [email protected]

13 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 178,767 93/100 1,065,595 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 19 Hary Tanoesoedibjo

Hary Tanoesoedibjo is an Indonesian billionaire businessman and politician. He is the President Director of PT MNC Investama Tbk, which he founded in 2009.

@Hary_Tanoe linkedin.com/in/hary-tanoesoedibjo-8bba39129/ [email protected]

154,579 93/100 4,096,100 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 20 David K Williams

Hailing from Colorado, United States; David K Williams is the CEO of Fishbowl and author of 7 non- negotiables of winning .

@DavidKWilliams linkedin.com/in/davidwilliams15/ [email protected]

14 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 152,844 97/100 2,603,557 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 21 Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is the Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations .

@BrianTracy linkedin.com/in/briantracyint/ [email protected]

129,938 93/100 1,346,570 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 22 Satya Nadella

Current CEO at Microsoft, where our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Joined Microsoft in 1992, and have held a variety of roles, most recently executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group, prior to becoming CEO. Member of Fred Hutch board of trustees .

@satyanadella linkedin.com/in/satya-nadella-3145136/ [email protected]

15 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 109,205 95/100 2,245,567 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 23 Grant Cardone

Grant Cardone is an international sales expert, New York Times best-selling author, and radio show host of The Cardone Zone . He has founded three companies: Cardone Enterprises, Cardone Real Estate Holdings, and the Cardone Group.

@GrantCardone linkedin.com/in/grantcardone/ [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected]

107,409 93/100 1,905,298 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 24 Aaron Levie

Aaron Winsor Levie is an American entrepreneur. He is the cofounder and CEO of the enterprise cloud company Box .

@ariannahuff linkedin.com/in/boxaaron/ [email protected]

16 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 107,409 93/100 1,713,207 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 25 Kai Fu Lee

Kai-fu lee helped Develop Sinovation Ventures into an early-stage company-building platform in the areas of mobile Internet, e-commerce, and .

@levie linkedin.com/in/kaifulee/ [email protected]

77,237 92/100 1,225,265 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 26 Michael Dell

Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. He is the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world’s leading providers of information technology infrastructure solutions .

@MichaelDell linkedin.com/in/mdell/ [email protected]

17 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 76,875 92/100 880,104 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 27 Bob Collymore

Bob Collymore is a Guyanan-born British businessman currently living and working in Kenya. He is currently the chief executive officer of Safaricom, a multinational telecommunications company.

@bobcollymore linkedin.com/in/bobcollymore/ [email protected]

73,678 92/100 895,581 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 28 Sundar Pichai

Pichai Sundararajan, also known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian American business executive. Pichai is the chief executive officer of Inc.

@sundarpichai

18 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 73,542 94/100 341,797 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 29 Min-Liang Tan

Min-Liang Tan is the Founder, CEO and Creative Director of Razer.

@minliangtan linkedin.com/in/mltan/ [email protected]

61,113 93/100 862.403 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 30 Scott Kelby

CEO of Kelby Media Group, Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User Magazine; Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo; Host of the influential live weekly photography talk show “the Grid;” and the world’s #1 bestselling author of books on photography technique for the past six years straight .

[email protected] @ScottKelby linkedin.com/in/scottkelby/ [email protected]

19 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 59,605 93/100 282,793 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 31 Amanda De Cadenet

Amanda de Cadenet is the Founder and CEO of Girlgaze and Creator of The Conversation. She began as a British television host at the very young age of 15, became a sought-after photographer in her early teens and as a result, her impressive photography career already spans nearly 20 years . She is the youngest woman to shoot a Vogue magazine cover and has photographed many of the most influential figures in pop culture.

@amandadecadenet linkedin.com/in/amanda-de-cadenet-38b7b288/ [email protected]

58,413 91/100 323,524 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 32 Marc Lamont Hill

Marc Lamont Hill is an American academic, journalist, author, activist, and television personality. He is a Professor of Media Studies and Urban Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

@marclamonthill linkedin.com/in/marc-lamont-hill-27969912/ [email protected]

20 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 55,741 90/100 300,133 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 33 Cenk Uygur

Cenk Kadir Uygur is a progressive Turkish-American political activist, businessman, columnist, and political commentator. Uygur is the main host and co-founder of The Young Turks, an American liberal political and social commentary program .

@cenkuygur linkedin.com/in/cenk-uygur-bb71a0/ [email protected]

52,685 94/100 978,329 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 34 Lynn Tilton

Lynn Tilton is the CEO of Patriarch Partners, an investment firm managing investments in more than 75 companies across 14 industry sectors. Ms. Tilton is passionate about saving American jobs by saving American companies. Since 2000, through affiliated investment funds, Tilton has had ownership in and restructured more than 240 companies with combined revenues in excess of $100 billion .

@LynnTilton linkedin.com/in/lynntilton/ [email protected]

21 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 45,775 92/100 267,707 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 35 Howard Lindzon

Howard has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity . With a unique vision for starting, managing, and successfully advising innovative companies, Lindzon is the public-face of the Social Leverage. In 2008 Lindzon co-founded StockTwits, and is Chairman today .

[email protected] @howardlindzon linkedin.com/in/howardlindzon/ [email protected]

40.165 89/100 841,372 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 36 Marc Benioff

Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, a large enterprise cloud computing company .

@Benioff linkedin.com/in/marcbenioff/ [email protected]

22 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 38,283 92/100 1,025,532 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 37 Amarenda Bhushan

CEO and editorial director of the CEOWORLD magazine, an extensively kudized author, noted journalist, syndicated columnist, and ostensible entrepreneur .

@ceoworld linkedin.com/in/abdhiraj/ [email protected]

36,890 89/100 666,871 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 38 Eugene Kaspersky

Eugene Kaspersky is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees

@e_kaspersky linkedin.com/in/eugenekaspersky/ [email protected]

23 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 34,119 91/100 983,932 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 39 Chad Hurley

Chad Meredith Hurley is an American co-founder and former CEO of the popular video-sharing website YouTube and MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0’s “50 People Who Matter Now” list.

@Chad_Hurley linkedin.com/in/chadhurley/ [email protected]

33,388 88/100 508,049 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 40 Jeff Weiner

Internet executive with over 20 years of experience, including general management of mid to large size organizations, corporate development, product development, business operations, and strategy . Currently CEO at LinkedIn, the web’s largest and most powerful network of professionals.

@jeffweiner linkedin.com/in/jeffweiner08/ [email protected]

24 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 32,803 92/100 161,507 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 41 Eduardo Arcos

Eduardo Arcos has lived in the Internet since 1994. He’s the founder and general director of Hipertextual. He’s passionate about technology, the media, music, photography, and cycling.

@earcos linkedin.com/in/earcos/ [email protected]

32,745 91/100 797,937 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 42 Eric Schiffer

Founder/CEO of two Inc. 500/5000 Co’s, Businessweek Magazine Top 10 Entrepreneur, author #1 bestseller, Chairman/CEO of Patriarch Group, a leading firm in technology and media, Chairman of ReputationManagementConsultants.com and DigitalMarketing.com.

@ericschiffer linkedin.com/in/ericschiffer/ [email protected]

25 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 29,017 91/100 196,352 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 43 Jason fried

Hailing from Illinois, Jason fried is the CEO of basecamp .

@jasonfried linkedin.com/in/37signals/ [email protected]

28,611 87/100 536,582 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 44 Jacqueline Novogratz

Jacqueline has been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine, and in Foreign Policy’s list of Top 100 Global Thinkers and The Daily Beast’s 25 Smartest People of the Decade. She is a frequent speaker at forums including the Clinton Global Initiative, TED, and the Aspen Ideas Festival.

@jnovogratz linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-novogratz-a6313/ [email protected]

26 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 26,988 87/100 128,137 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 45 Scott Borchetta

Scott Borchetta is an American businessman and record executive best known for founding Big Machine Label Group and for discovering singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.

@scottborchetta

25,017 87/100 129,461 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 46 Keith McCullough

Prior to founding Hedgeye Risk Management, Keith built a successful track record as a manager at the Carlyle-Blue Wave Partners hedge fund, Magnetar Capital, Falconhenge Partners, and Dawson- Herman Capital Management.

@KeithMcCullough linkedin.com/in/keith-r-mccullough-426a195/ [email protected]

27 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 24,358 89/100 466,838 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 47 Meg Whitman

Margaret Cushing “Meg” Whitman is an American business executive and political activist and donor. Whitman is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

@MegWhitman linkedin.com/in/megwhitman/ [email protected]

24,054 90/100 317,006 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 48 Ryan Blair

Ryan Blair is a serial entrepreneur who established his first company at age twenty-one and has since created and actively invested in multiple start-ups. As the CEO of ViSalus, he took the company from start- up to more than $1.6 billion in cumulative sales, sold the company in a $792.4-million-dollar transaction, started venture fund HashtagOne .

@RyanBlair linkedin.com/in/ryanblair/ [email protected]

28 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 22,966 86/100 164,153 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 49 Mohamed A. El-Erian

Dr. El-Erian is Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz and member of its International Executive Committee. He chairs President Obama’s Global Development Council, is a Contributing Editor, a Bloomberg View columnist and author of the NYT/WSJ best seller “When Markets Collide.”

@elerianm linkedin.com/in/mohamedelerian/ [email protected]

22,895 89/100 184,694 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 50 Brian Chesky

Brian Joseph Chesky is an American Internet entrepreneur who cofounded the hospitality exchange service Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company and was named one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People of 2015”

@bchesky linkedin.com/in/brianchesky/ [email protected]

29 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 20,552 86/100 243,800 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 51 David Miliband

President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), David oversees the agency’s humanitarian relief operations in more than 40 war-affected countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in 29 United states cities .

@DMiliband linkedin.com/in/dmiliband/ [email protected]

18,617 86/100 206,611 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 52 Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of , the world’s largest online shopping retailer. Since then, he’s been involved in starting a spaceflight company (Blue Origin), purchasing , other investment opportunities including Google and Unity Biotechnology, and more through his fund, Bezos Expeditions .

@JeffBezos

30 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 13,367 85/100 264,909 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 53 Ziad Abdelnour

Ziad K. Abdelnour is Founder, President & CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc. a private “family office” in the business of originating, structuring & acting as equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic equity investments, consolidations, growth capital financings, & trading key physical commodities.

@blackhawkinc linkedin.com/in/ziadkabdelnour/ [email protected]

13,153 85/100 144,809 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 54 Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter is an international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist and public commentator. She is the current President and CEO of New America and a former president of the American Society of International Law.

@SlaughterAM linkedin.com/in/anne-marie-slaughter-24687348/ [email protected]

31 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 11,107 86/100 250,659 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 55 Drew Houston

Andrew W. “Drew” Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur who is best known for being the founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service .

@drewhouston linkedin.com/in/drewhouston/ [email protected]

10,872 86/100 108,766 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 56 Martin Varsavsky

Martin turns technological into companies. He is the founder and chairman of Prelude Fertility, the company that helps people have healthy babies when they are ready, and founder and chairman of Fon, the largest WiFi network in the world with 21 million hotspots .

@martinvars linkedin.com/in/martinvarsavsky/ [email protected]

32 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 10,843 86/100 106,397 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 57 Scott Harrison

Scott Harrison is a former club promoter who is the founder and current CEO of the non-profit charity: water .

@scottharrison linkedin.com/in/scottharrison1/ [email protected]

10,719 86/100 78,839 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 58 Davide Maggio

Hailing from Italy, Davide Maggio is a journalist and the CEO of mediaMai

@davidemaggio linkedin.com/in/davidemaggio/ [email protected]

33 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 10,575 84/100 139,529 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 59 Scott Williams

Scott Williams is an author, speaker, strategist and international consultant . As the CEO and Chief Solutions Officer of NxtLevel Solutions, Scott and his team consult with some the largest and most influential churches, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies in the world in guiding them to solutions that instill leadership and foster growth .

@ScottWilliams linkedin.com/in/scott-williams-1947234/ [email protected]

9,136 83/100 101,306 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 60 Dr. Paula Kahumbu

Dr. Paula Kahumbu is the CEO of Kenyan Conservation NGO WildlifeDirect and is leading the hard hitting Hands Off Our Elephants Campaign with Kenya’s First Lady Margaret Kenyatta. Hands Off Our Elephants is a campaign to restore Kenyan leadership in elephant conservation through behaviour change at all levels of society, from rural communities, to business leaders and political decision makers .

@paulakahumbu linkedin.com/in/paulakahumbu/ [email protected]

34 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 8,957 83/100 76,031 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 61 Debra Lee

Debra L. Lee, Esq. is an American businesswoman. She is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BET, the parent company for Black Entertainment Television.

@IamDebraLee

8,467 83/100 131,093 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 62 Assaad Razzouk

Assaad is a Clean Energy Entrepreneur, Investor and Commentator Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive of Sindicatum Sustainable Resources, a global clean energy company headquartered in Singapore

@AssaadRazzouk linkedin.com/in/assaadrazzouk/ [email protected]

35 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 8,366 83/100 110,070 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 63

Susan Diane Wojcicki is an American technology executive. She is the current CEO of YouTube

@SusanWojcicki linkedin.com/in/susan-wojcicki-b136a99/ [email protected]

8,271 83/100 92,040 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 64 Sachin Bansal

Sachin Bansal is an Indian Software engineer and Internet entrepreneur known for co-founding India’s e-commerce platform Flipkart. Sachin is from Chandigarh and is an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi .

@_sachinbansal linkedin.com/in/sachinbansal/ [email protected]

36 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 7,912 83/100 174,049 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 65 James Caan

In 2004, James founded the private equity firm, Hamilton Bradshaw (HB) and joined the panel of heavyweight investors for BBC’s “Dragons’ Den” in 2007. His main focus in on charity work, current investments, growing HB, his appointment as chairman of the Startup Loans Company, and mentoring entrepreneurs to help ensure their success .

@jamescaan linkedin.com/in/jamescaancbe/ [email protected]

7,791 85/100 146,267 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 66 Laura Fitton

Once upon a time dubbed a “Queen” of Twitter, Laura “@Pistachio” Fitton co-authored Twitter for Dummies and founded oneforty.com (acquired by HubSpot) in 2009 when she recognized that software built on Twitter’s API was going to change the world.

@Pistachio linkedin.com/in/pistachio/

37 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 7,746 82/100 95,618 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 67 Tina Brown

Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor, author and founder and CEO of Tina Brown Live Media, a company dedicated to summits, salons, flash forums and debates.

@TinaBrownLM linkedin.com/in/tina-brown-b455b1143/

6,470 82/100 71,263 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 68 Brian Slagel

Brian Slagel is the founder and CEO of Metal Blade Records. Slagel is known for giving their first break in 1982, with an appearance on Metal Massacre, a compilation album on Metal Blade.

@brianslagel linkedin.com/in/brianslagel/ [email protected]

38 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 6,256 82/100 176,871 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 69 Frank Addante

Engineer turned entrepeneur specializing in building high-tech, highscale, disruptive technology companies powered by strong engineering teams .

@FrankAddante linkedin.com/in/frankaddante/ [email protected]

6,105 83/100 73,434 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 70 Jonah Peretti

Jonah Peretti is an American Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post, and developer of reblogging under the project “Reblog”.

@peretti linkedin.com/in/jonahperetti/ [email protected]

39 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 5,710 81/100 72,154 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 71 Ben Jealous

Benjamin Todd Jealous is an American venture capitalist, civic leader, and former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

@BenJealous linkedin.com/in/benjamintoddjealous/ [email protected]

5,560 81/100 66,181 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 72 Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield was perhaps best known for co-founding the photo sharing website, , however since then, has founded the team messaging application , which has revolutionized the way companies communicate internally .

@stewart linkedin.com/in/butterfield/ [email protected]

40 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 5,489 81/100 105,516 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 73 Cameron Winklevoss

Cameron Howard Winklevoss is an American rower and entrepreneur. He competed in the men’s pair rowing event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with his identical twin brother and rowing partner, Tyler Winklevoss .

@winklevoss linkedin.com/in/cameronwinklevoss/ [email protected]

5,453 82/100 82,104 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 74 Steve Rifkind

Steve Rifkind is an American music entrepreneur who is, according to XXL magazine, “responsible for breaking in some of hip-hop’s biggest artists in his 25 years in the business”.

@steverifkind linkedin.com/in/steve-rifkind-22a25943/

41 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 5,249 82/100 342,384 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 75 Jeremy Gutsche

Jeremy is a New York Times Bestselling author, one of the world’s top keynote speakers / management consultants and the CEO of Trend Hunter, the world’s #1 largest, most popular trend spotting firm with more than 2 billion views and 3 million fans.

@jeremygutsche linkedin.com/in/jeremygutsche/ [email protected]

5,121 84/100 85,110 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 76 Jason Stein

Jason Stein is the founder and president of Laundry Service, a social media agency. He is also a founding partner in Windforce Ventures, which invests in early-stage social and mobile technology startups.

@jasonwstein linkedin.com/in/jasonwstein/ [email protected]

42 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 4,951 83/100 549,463 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 77 Marvet Britto

Hailing from New York City, Marvet Britto founded the Britto Agency in 1994. She represents a number of celebrities, including Angela Bassett, Kim Cattrall, and the NBA’s Tyson Chandler, while also handling publicity for Fortune 500 companies, Motorola and Microsoft to name a couple, as well as an entire island, Anguilla .

@MarvetBritto linkedin.com/in/marvet-britto-a1b7181/ [email protected]

4,923 83/100 60,643 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 78 Jacqueline Gold

Jacqueline Summers Gold, CBE is a British businesswoman who is Chief Executive of Gold Group International, Ann Summers and Knickerbox. Gold is estimated to be the 16th richest woman in Great Britain

@Jacqueline_Gold

43 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 4,238 80/100 55,370 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 79 Joshua DuBois

Joshua DuBois is the nation’s leading expert at mobilizing faithbased and other grassroots organizations to solve specific challenges in local communities. For four years, Joshua led the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and served as spiritual advisor to President Obama, where he “turned the faithbased office around” in the words of President Obama.

@joshuadubois linkedin.com/in/joshua-dubois-a1a9b246/

4,125 79/100 56,630 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 80 Chamath Palihapitiya

Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist. Palihapitiya was born in , raised in Canada, and has worked for much of his life in Silicon Valley. Palihaptiya is an owner and board member of the .

@chamath linkedin.com/in/chamath/ [email protected]

44 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 4,111 75/100 39,009 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 81 Sarah Austin

Most people know sarah as an accomplished marketer. Her campaigns have been recognized by Wired, NYT, and even won her AdAge’s “campaign of the year” award. Sarah was recognized by Forbes on their 30 under 30 list for her prominent work with brands like Intel, Ford, and others .

@sarahaustin linkedin.com/in/sarahmarieaustin/ [email protected]

3,829 82/100 89,970 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 82 Ryan Holmes

A serial entrepreneur, Ryan Holmes started his first business in high school, ultimately opening a string of ventures - from a pizza restaurant to a digital media agency - before starting Hootsuite in 2008. As founder and CEO, he has helped grow Hootsuite into the world’s most widely used social relationship platform, with 15-million-plus users, including more than 800 of the Fortune 1000 companies .

@invoker linkedin.com/in/rholmes/ [email protected]

45 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 3,822 81/100 91,600 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 83 Steve Mesler

Steven Michael Mesler is a former American bobsledder and 3-time Olympian, World Champion, and Olympic Gold Medalist. He is the cofounder, President and CEO of the international award winning nonprofit education organization, Classroom Champions .

@SteveMesler linkedin.com/in/steve-mesler-2155b722/ [email protected]

3,744 79/100 71,339 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 84 Mark Pincus

Mark Jonathan Pincus is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Zynga, which makes online social games. Pincus also founded Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com.

@markpinc linkedin.com/in/markpincus/ [email protected]

46 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 3,495 80/100 75,152 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 85 Steven Kolb

As President and CEO of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Steven oversees all operations and activities of the American fashion industry’s preeminent designer trade association and affiliated charity. Membership consists of more than 500 of America’s leading apparel and accessories designers.

@stevenkolb linkedin.com/in/steven-kolb-382b786/ [email protected]

3,449 82/100 59,795 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 86 Kate Kendall

Kate is the founder and CEO of CloudPeeps. She also founded The Fetch event discovery platform and the Freelance Friday coworking community . She currently serves on the board of the Aussie Founder Network . Sarah is also a former business journalist and editor with a BSc (Biotechnology) and MB ().

@KateKendall linkedin.com/in/katekendall/ [email protected]

47 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 3,359 78/100 47,522 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 87 Betty Liu

Betty Liu is an anchor on Bloomberg Television and founder of Radiate, Inc, a media education company whose mission to help transform today’s professionals, managers, entrepreneurs into tomorrow’s leaders. An award-winning business journalist, Liu regularly interviews influential business, political and media leaders .

@BettyWLiu linkedin.com/in/bettywliu/ [email protected]

3,307 80/100 62,500 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 88 Dave Kerpen

Dave is the founder and CEO of Likeable Local, a social media software company serving thousands of small businesses, as well as the chairman and cofounder of Likeable Media, an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing agency for big brands.

[email protected] @DaveKerpen linkedin.com/in/davekerpen/ [email protected]

48 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 3,114 78/100 65,928 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 89 Brian Halligan

Brian Halligan is an American executive and author. He is CEO and co-founder of HubSpot, an inbound marketing and sales software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is also a senior lecturer at MIT.

@bhalligan linkedin.com/in/brianhalligan/ [email protected]

3,066 80/100 35,408 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 90 Jason Hirschhorn

Jason Hirschhorn is the former co-president of MySpace. He was named co-president of MySpace along with Michael Jones on February 10, 2010. Hirschhorn was previously the company’s chief product officer.

@JasonHirschhorn linkedin.com/in/jason-hirschhorn-820a9b43/ [email protected]

49 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 3,008 78/100 42,141 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 91 Ross Gerber

President and CEO of Gerber Kawasaki. Investment Advisor since 1994 and frequent guest and contributor to CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg and Forbes.President of the charitable organization The Guardians of the Jewish Home for the Aging .

@GerberKawasaki linkedin.com/in/ross-gerber-67a73b18/ [email protected]

2,922 71/100 38,795 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 92 Cornell Brooks

Cornell William Brooks is an American lawyer and activist . He was chosen to be the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in May 2014.

@CornellWBrooks

50 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 2,846 77/100 50,950 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 93 Phil Radford

Phil Radford is an American clean energy, environmental, and democracy advocate who serves as the President of Membership Drive, was the youngest CEO of Greenpeace USA and the CEO of Power Shift, co-founded the Democracy Initiative, and is a board member of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation; Citizens for Health, Environment and Justice; and Green Corps.

@Phil_Radford linkedin.com/in/pradford/

2,679 77/100 39,253 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 94 Evan A Smith

Evan Smith is an American journalist . He is the CEO of The Texas Tribune and host of the weekly interview program “Overheard with Evan Smith .

@evanasmith linkedin.com/in/evan-smith-832741b2/ [email protected]

51 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 2,515 78/100 55,611 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 95 Anthony Marlowe

Anthony Marlowe is an American businessperson. He is the founder of TMone, Chief Executive Officer of Mass Markets, GravisApps, managing member of Iowa City Capital Partners, and Marlowe Companies Inc.

@AnthonyMarlowe linkedin.com/in/anthonymarlowe/ [email protected]

2,327 76/100 36,109 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 96 Mohamed Nanabhay

Mohamed Nanabhay is the Deputy CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), which invests in independent media around the world providing the news, information and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies .

@mohamed linkedin.com/in/mohamedn/ [email protected]

52 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 2,183 76/100 41,890 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 97 Peter Guber

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, a multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, sports entertainment and digital media Owner and Co-Executive Chairman of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors.

[email protected] @PeterGuber linkedin.com/in/peterguber/ [email protected]

2,178 76/100 68,994 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 98 Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer and politician. She is the founder of the tech organization Girls Who Code. She was previously the Deputy Public Advocate at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate.

@reshmasaujani linkedin.com/in/reshma-saujani-770909/ [email protected]

53 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 2,087 75/100 49,475 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 99 Josh James

Josh James is an American entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Domo, a software-as-a-service company. He also previously cofounded and served as CEO of Omniture, a web analytics company .

@joshjames linkedin.com/in/iamjoshjames/ [email protected]

2,076 75/100 27,472 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 100 Jon Oringer

Jon Oringer is an American programmer, photographer, and businessman, best known as the founder and CEO of , a media and editing tools provider headquartered in New York City

@jonoringer linkedin.com/in/shutterstock/ [email protected]

54 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers

2,059 78/100 43,070 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 101 Vinny Lingham

Vinny Lingham is a Entrepreneur. Dragon. Angel. Shark. 4 time startup founder & CEO.

[email protected] / [email protected] @VinnyLingham linkedin.com/in/vinnylingham/ [email protected] / pitch@newtownpartners

2,001 77/100 20,508 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 102 Liam Hackett

Ranked as one of the most influential CEO’s in the world, Liam Hackett has grown Ditch the Label - now the largest anti-bullying NGO in the world from scratch, into an organisation that is predicted to help over 1 5. million people globally during 2017 alone .

@DiageoLiam linkedin.com/in/liamhackett/ [email protected]

55 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,881 75/100 44,485 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 103 Carolyn Miles

Carolyn Speer Miles is the president and C.E.O. of Save the Children. It is an organization working towards the betterment of underprivileged children .

@carolynsave linkedin.com/in/carolyn-miles-40bb972/ [email protected]

1,808 77/100 31,342 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 104 Lucy P. Marcus

Lucy is the founder and CEO of Marcus Venture Consulting, Ltd, which works with venture capital and private equity funds, institutions and corporations to build strong funding businesses. She is also Professor of Leadership and Governance at IE Business School focusing on corporate governance, ethics and leadership .

@lucymarcus linkedin.com/in/lucypmarcus/ [email protected]

56 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,753 76/100 33,758 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 105 Jon Steinberg

Jon Steinberg is the founder and CEO of Cheddar, a new video media company sitting at the intersection of businessnews and culture . In 2017, Fast Company named Cheddar one of the ten most innovative companies in media .

@jonsteinberg linkedin.com/in/jonsteinberg/ [email protected]

1,745 76/100 35,846 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 106 Casey Wasserman

Casey Wasserman is an entertainment executive, sports agent executive who owned the now defunct Arena League football team, the Los Angeles Avengers

@caseywasserman linkedin.com/in/casey-wasserman-66763b17/ [email protected]

57 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,697 68/100 36,615 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 107 Larry Ellison

Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is co-founder of and was CEO from its founding until September 2014 . He is the executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle.

@larryellison [email protected]

1,672 74/100 55,380 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 108 Jeff Immelt

Jeff Immelt is the 9th Chairman of GE. He served as CEO for 16 years, transforming GE into a simpler, stronger, and more focused digital industrial company. Immelt revamped the company’s strategy, global footprint, workforce and culture, positioning GE for the future.

@JeffImmelt linkedin.com/in/jeffimmelt/ [email protected]

58 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,641 76/100 50,57 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 109 Ted Murphy

A serial entrepreneur, Ted Murphy has founded six companies since 1994. Murphy’s latest venture, IZEA operates an online marketplace that connects brands with content creators. Murphy has been called the father of sponsored social and is largely credited for creating the industry .

@tedmurphy linkedin.com/in/tedmurphy/ [email protected]

1,630 74/100 33,782 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 110 Paul Polman

Paul Polman has been Chief Executive Officer since January 2009. Under his leadership Unilever has set out an ambitious vision to decouple growth from its environmental footprint while increasing its positive social impact. Paul is Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a member of the B-team, and serves on the Board of the UN Global Compact.

@PaulPolman linkedin.com/in/paulpolman/ [email protected]

59 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,629 74/100 37,001 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 111 Yoshikazu Tanaka

Tanaka Yoshikazu is a Japanese entrepreneur who is a developer of Social Networking Service GREE, provided by GREE, Inc. which is an Internet business company he founded. Yoshikazu Tanaka was born in Tokyo, Mitaka-City in 1977

@tanakayoshikazu linkedin.com/in/yoshikazu-tanaka-52584/ [email protected]

1,601 75/100 46,220 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 112 Kimberly Bryant

Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and Executive Director of Black Girls CODE, a non-pro t organization dedicated to “changing the face of technology” by introducing girls of color (ages 7-17) to the eld of technology and computer science with a concentration on entrepreneurial concepts . Kimberly has enjoyed a successful 25+ year professional career in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries . Since 2011 Kimberly has helped Black Girls CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international organization with seven chapters across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Black Girls CODE has currently reached over 3000 students and continues to grow and thrive .

@6Gems linkedin.com/in/kimberlybryant/ [email protected]

60 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,574 73/100 42,098 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 113 Adam D’Angelo

Adam D’Angelo is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Quora, an online knowledge market based in Mountain View, . He was chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering

@adamdangelo linkedin.com/in/dangelo/ [email protected]

1,511 73/100 31,141 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 114 Mary Barra

Mary Teresa Barra is the Chairman and CEO of General Motors Company. She has held the CEO position since January 15, 2014, and she is the first female CEO of a major global automaker.

@mtbarra linkedin.com/in/mary-barra-29469712/ [email protected]

61 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,438 73/100 32,751 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 115 David Jones

Founder, You & Mr Jones. Co-founder, One Young World. Led Kofi Annan’s tcktcktck campaign on Climate Justice. Author, Who Cares Wins. Creator, Social Business Idea (tm). Guardian Sustainable Business Leader of the Year 2013. Ex-Global CEO Havas.

@davidjonesOYW linkedin.com/in/davidjonesoyw/ [email protected]

1,427 73/100 32,184 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 116 Charles P Garcia

Charles Patrick García started Garcia Trujillo LLC, a consulting, merchant banking, and venture capital firm where he was the CEO. In June 2014, Charlie Garcia was selected to lead the Association of Latino Professionals for America

@charlespgarcia linkedin.com/in/charlespgarcia/ [email protected]

62 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,320 66/100 24,980 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 117 Reed Hastings

Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and CEO of and serves on the boards of Facebook and a number of non-profit organizations

@reedhastings linkedin.com/in/reedhastings/ [email protected]

1,280 73/100 33,492 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 118 Indra Nooyi

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, a global food and beverage leader that makes thousands of enjoyable products for consumers around the world .

@IndraNooyi linkedin.com/in/indranooyi/ [email protected]

63 04Top 120 Chief Executive Officers 1,199 72/100 15,784 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 119 MARK T. Bertolini

Mark T. Bertolini is the CEO of Aetna, a Fortune 50 diversified health care benefits company with over $60 billion in 2015 revenue . Bertolini assumed the role of CEO on November 29, 2010 and of Chairman on April 8, 2011.

@mtbert linkedin.com/in/markbertolini/ [email protected]

1,118 71/100 28,000 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 120 Hugh Evans

Humanitarian | Social Entrepreneur | International Development Advocate | Hugh evans is the CEO of Global Citizen

@Hughcevans linkedin.com/in/hughcevans/ [email protected]

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