Top Ten World Most Influential CEOs

1. Microsoft CEO - Satya Nadella.
Microsoft Corporation, CEO Satya Nadella is the current Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. He was appointed as CEO on February 4, 2014, succeeding
Steve Ballmer.

2. Apple Inc. CEO - Tim Cook.
Timothy Donald "Tim" Cook is an American business executive, and is the CEO of Apple Inc. Cook joined Apple in March 1998 as SVP of Worldwide Operations
and also served as EVP of Worldwide Sales.

3. Coca cola CEO - Muhtar Kent Muhtar A. Kent is a Turkish-American business executive. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company.

4. Facebook Inc. CEO - Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook.

5. Google CEO - Larry Page Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American business magnate and computer scientist who is the co-founder of Google, alongside Sergey Brin. On April 4, 2011, Page succeeded Eric Schmidt as the chief executive officer of Google.

6. Samsung CEO - Lee Kun - hee. Lee Kun-hee (Korean pronunciation: [iːɡʌnhi]; born January 9, 1942) is a South Korean business magnate and the chairman of Samsung Group. He had resigned in April 2008, owing to a Samsung slush funds scandal, but returned on March 24, 2010.

7. MC Donald CEO - Donald Thompson Donald Cordell "Don" Thompson is the president and chief executive officer of McDonald's, succeeding Jim
Skinner on June 30, 2012.

8. CEO - Aliko Dangote. Alhaji Aliko Dangote, MFR, GCON (born 10 April 1957, Kano, Nigeria) is a business magnate in Nigeria who owns the Dangote Group, which has interests in commodities. The company operates in Nigeria and several other countries in Africa, including Benin, Cameroon, Togo, Ghana, South Africa and Zambia.

9. Intel CEO - Brian Krzanich
Brian Matthew Krzanich is the Chief Executive Officer of Intel. He was elected CEO on May 2, 2013, concluding a six month executive search after incumbent CEO Paul Otellini announced his resignation in November 2012.

10. Twitter CEO - Dick Costolo
Dick Costolo is the current CEO of Twitter and was its former COO. He took over as CEO from Evan Williams in October 2010.

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