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. Currently, if someone was interested that their rankings are the ultimate in answering the question of, rundown of how to follow . However, in “who are the top women business today’s hyper-data driven world, that’s influencers today?” they’d have an no longer acceptable . Consumers have 01 extraordinarily difficult time coming grown hungrier for proof, as they’re up with an accurate picture of the no longer willing to accept a list from field. Googling this question brings a reputable source with no rhyme or up a number of results . Some from reason to how it was compiled; and as Hubspot, Salesforce, Forbes, and other consumers ourselves, we were struck respectable outlets; however each of with the same problems . them suffers from a singular issue . These issues ultimately lead us None are organized in any discernible to create our own Top 65 Women way They. simply tell readers that Business Influencers list, which is their list is the most comprehensive ranked carefully by the same set of group of influencers assembled, and metrics across the board . 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 Twitter account, Facebook 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 Bill Gates William Henry Gates III is a co-founder of Microsoft and is an American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the world’s largest PC software company . @BillGates linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/ [email protected] 2,528,309 99/100 13,538,367 True Reach INFLUENCE AUDIENCE 02 Elon musk Born in South Africa in 1971, Elon Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his startup company, 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 Steve Jobs 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 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, Dell, Global Crossing, and serves on the CTIA board of directors . @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 Telegram Messenger. He is the younger brother of Nikolai Durov. @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 Investors” 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 Instagram 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.