The greatest CEOs alive.

Thank you, Satya, for showing that a growth mindset and empathy can turn a legacy company into a humane, curious builder of the AI era.

Thank you, Sundar, for carrying a boy's wonder from Chennai to the helm of Google and keeping information open and useful for billions of people.

Thank you, Jensen, for three decades of relentless conviction that put the compute engine of modern AI into the hands of researchers everywhere.

Thank you, Lisa, for proving that deep technical mastery and steady leadership can revive a company and widen who gets to build at the frontier.

Thank you, Tim, for treating privacy as a human right and for the quiet discipline that keeps Apple obsessed with getting the details right for people.

Thank you, Andy, for building AWS from an idea into the infrastructure that lets any startup stand up global software overnight.

Thank you, Mark, for open-sourcing frontier AI models so that researchers and small teams everywhere can build without asking permission.

Thank you, Michael, for showing a generation of founders that a business begun in a dorm room can endure and reinvent itself for forty years.

Thank you, Arvind, for grounding IBM's next chapter in deep research and for championing open, trustworthy AI for the enterprise.

Thank you, Marc, for pioneering the 1-1-1 giving model and proving a software company can put equality and community at the center of its story.

Thank you, Hock, for a rare clarity of capital discipline that turned Broadcom into one of the most consequential infrastructure companies in tech.

Thank you, Lip-Bu, for stepping into a hard job with engineering humility and a long-term commitment to rebuilding American chipmaking.

Thank you, Shantanu, for reinventing how creators work and for putting powerful, responsible creative tools into millions of hands.

Thank you, Christian, for carrying Europe's software flagship forward with the conviction that enterprise AI should serve real operational work.

Thank you, C.C., for the manufacturing excellence that quietly makes nearly every advanced chip the modern world depends on possible.

Thank you, Jamie, for steady stewardship through crises and for candid annual letters that teach a generation about risk and responsibility.

Thank you, Larry, for building an institution around long-term thinking and for pressing companies to plan beyond the next quarter.

Thank you, David, for guiding one of finance's most demanding institutions and mentoring talent that spreads across the whole industry.

Thank you, Brian, for rebuilding trust after the crisis and anchoring a giant bank in the idea of responsible, durable growth.

Thank you, Jane, for breaking a real barrier on Wall Street and for the disciplined focus you have brought to simplifying a global bank.

Thank you, Warren, for six decades of honest teaching about patience, integrity, and long-term thinking, and for pledging nearly all of it back to the world.

Thank you, Doug, for a career that began unloading trucks and for raising wages and opportunity for millions of frontline workers.

Thank you, Brian, for putting hospitality and better conditions for baristas at the heart of reviving a beloved everyday ritual.

Thank you, Elliott, for coming out of retirement out of love for the company and the athletes and communities it serves.

Thank you, Bernard, for championing craftsmanship and heritage and for keeping the human artistry of great making commercially alive.

Thank you, Mary, for rising from the plant floor to the top job and for steering a century-old automaker toward an electric future.

Thank you, Jim, for your obvious love of cars and the people who build them, and for guiding Ford through a hard industry transition.

Thank you, Kelly, for taking on one of the toughest jobs in industry and putting safety, quality, and engineering culture back at the center.

Thank you, Ola, for guiding a storied automaker toward electrification while protecting the craft and engineering that define the brand.

Thank you, Albert, for the moonshot urgency that helped bring a COVID vaccine to the world in record time and saved countless lives.

Thank you, Ted, for betting on original storytelling from every corner of the world and giving creators a global stage they never had before.

Thank you, Mukesh, for making mobile data affordable enough to connect hundreds of millions of Indians to the digital economy.

Thank you, Chandra, for rising from within Tata to lead it with a values-first hand across steel, software, autos, and aviation.

Thank you, Ngozi, for steady nerves at the helm of global trade and for opening a historic door as the first woman and first African to lead the WTO.

Thank you, Ajay, for bringing an operator's urgency to development finance and centering the Bank's mission on jobs and real human progress.

Thank you, Sultan, for building both a national energy champion and a serious clean-energy platform, and for pushing dialogue between the two worlds.

Thank you, Bill, for turning a technologist's fortune toward eradicating disease and for pledging to give nearly all of it back to the world.

She broke a barrier no woman had crossed in big pharma and steered GSK back to its science, holding the door open wider for those who follow.

A doctor who runs a global drugmaker like a scientist, betting patiently on research to bring new medicines to patients around the world.

Born in Beirut and raised in Dubai, he rose through the ranks to lead Shell with unusual candor about the hard trade-offs of powering the world.

An engineer who joined Aramco young and rose to run it, steady at the helm of an enterprise much of the world quietly depends on.

Called back to steady UBS through the biggest bank merger in a generation, he brought a craftsman's calm to a job few would want.

From Soweto to the top of African banking, he has grown the continent's largest lender while championing Africa's own development.

A 27-year insider who rose from finance manager to CEO and steered the largest merger in Indian banking history.

An engineer who worked his way up from the factory floor to lead VW, looking for smarter solutions than plant closures for its workers.

A finance chief turned president who rose inside Toyota, entrusted with keeping the world's largest carmaker disciplined and grounded.

He brought lean discipline and a respect-for-people ethos to one of America's iconic industrial names and gave it a focused new life.

A physicist by training who has spent three decades at Siemens turning industrial machines into intelligent, connected systems.

A Spaniard who spent his whole career at PepsiCo and now leads it toward more sustainable and better-for-you food and drink.

A Brazilian chemical engineer who started in sales and rose to lead the world's largest brewer across every continent.

From Google and SoftBank to cybersecurity's front line, he built Palo Alto Networks into a trusted shield for enterprises and governments.

He guided Infosys past twenty billion dollars in revenue and into the AI era while keeping its engineering culture intact.

He led Delta through crisis and recovery to become one of the most awarded airlines, with a genuine focus on the people who fly and serve.

A Brazilian engineer who joined Qualcomm as a young chip designer and now leads it into the age of on-device AI.

An engineer and the first woman to run Orange, she is reshaping a telecom giant that serves customers across France, Europe, and Africa.

The first woman to run UPS, she brought financial discipline and a customer-first focus to the movement of the world's packages.

A former college basketball star who leads one of America's largest health insurers with a steady focus on making care more affordable.