Company Executive Title Since

Accenture Pierre Nanterme CEO 2011

ACE Limited Evan G. Greenberg CEO and President[1] 2004

Aditya Birla Group Kumar Birla Chairman[2] 1995[3]

Adobe Systems Shantanu Narayen President and CEO[4] 2007

Agenus Garo H. Armen Founder, Chairman, CEO[5] 1994

American International Group Bob Benmosche CEO 2009

Alcatel-Lucent Ben Verwaayen CEO 2008

Alcoa Klaus Kleinfeld Chairman and CEO[6] 2008

Altria Group Michael Szymanczyk Chairman and CEO[7] 2008

Amazon.com Jeff Bezos Founder, President, CEO, and Chairman[8]1994

AMD Rory Read CEO 2011

American Express Kenneth Chenault Chairman and CEO 2001

Amgen Kevin W. Sharer President and CEO 2000

AMR Corporation Thomas W. Horton CEO 2011

Analog Devices Jerald G Fishman CEO and President 1996

Anheuser-Busch Dave Peacock CEO 2008

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Anil Ambani Chairman 1983

AOL Inc. Tim Armstrong CEO and Chairman 2009

Apple Inc. Tim Cook CEO 2011

Arcelor Mittal Lakshmi Niwas Mittal Chairman and CEO 2006

Archer Daniels Midland Patricia Woertz President and CEO, chairman of the board[9]2006

AT&T Randall L. Stephenson Chairman, CEO and President[10] 2007

BAE Systems Plc Ian King CEO[11] 2008

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Francisco González Chairman and CEO 2000

Bank of America Brian Moynihan President and CEO 2009

Barclays Robert Diamond CEO 2010

Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett Chairman and CEO 1970

Best Buy Brian J. Dunn CEO 2009

Bharti Enterprises Sunil Bharti Mittal Founder, Chairman and Managing Director1985

Blackstone Group Stephen A. Schwarzman Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder[13] 1985

BHP Billiton Marius Kloppers CEO 2007

BMW Norbert Reithofer Chairman of the Board of Management 2006

Boeing W. James McNerney, Jr. Chairman, President and CEO 2005

Boston Consulting Group Hans-Paul Bürkner President and CEO 2003

BP Bob Dudley CEO 2010

Burger King John Chidsey Executive Chairman and CEO

Campbell Soup Company Douglas R. Conant President and CEO 2011

Canonical Ltd. Mark Shuttleworth

Capital One Financial Richard Fairbank Chairman and CEO 1988

Cargill Gregory R. Page President and CEO 2007

Caterpillar Inc. Douglas R. Oberhelman Chairman and CEO 2010

Cavium Networks Syed B. Ali

CBS Corporation Leslie Moonves

Chesapeake Energy Aubrey McClendon Chairman, CEOand Co-founder

Chrysler Sergio Marchionne

Cisco Systems John Chambers

Citigroup Vikram Pandit CEO[14] 2007

Coca-Cola Muhtar Kent Chairman andCEO 2008

Cognizant Technology Solutions Francisco D'Souza

Comcast Corporation Brian L. Roberts

Compuware Corporation Peter Karmanos, Jr.

ConAgra Gary Rodkin

Continental Airlines Jeff Smisek

Cameron Sheldon Erikson

Crown Worldwide Group James E. Thompson

CVS Caremark Thomas Ryan

Cypress Semiconductor TJ Rodgers

Daimler AG Dieter Zetsche

Dell Inc Michael Dell

Delta Air Lines Richard Anderson

Deutsche Bank Josef Ackermann

Deutsche Post World Net Frank Appel

Devon Energy J. Larry Nichols Chairman andCEO 1980

DineEquity Julia Stewart Chairman andCEO[15] 2007

Dish Network Corporation Charlie Ergen

DLF Universal Kushal Pal Singh

Domino's Pizza David Brandon

DuPont Ellen J. Kullman

Dubai Holdings Mohammed Al Gergawi

Dunkin' Donuts Jon L. Luther

Eastman Kodak Antonio M. Perez

EADS Louis Gallois

eBay John Donahoe

Electronic Arts John Riccitiello

Environment Agency Barbara Young

Ericsson Hans Vestberg President andCEO 2010

Escada Dr. Bruno Sälzer CEO 2008

Eurasia Group Ian Bremmer

Exxon Mobil Rex Tillerson

Facebook Mark Zuckerberg

FedEx Frederick W. Smith

Free Software Foundation Richard Stallman

Fiat S.p.A. Sergio Marchionne

Fidelity Investments Abigail Johnson

Ford Motor Company Alan Mulally

Fox Learning Systems Debra Fox

Foxconn Electronics Inc Terry Gou

Fisher Investments Kenneth L. Fisher

FUBU Daymond John

Formula One Management Bernie Ecclestone

Gas Powered Games Chris Taylor

General Dynamics Nicholas Chabraja

General Electric Jeffrey R. Immelt

General Motors Daniel Akerson CEO 2010

GfK AG Klaus L. Wübbenhorst

GlaxoSmithKline Andrew Witty

Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein

Google Larry Page

GMA Network Felipe Gozon

Halliburton David J. Lesar

Harley Davidson James Ziemer

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Charlie Baker

HCL Technologies Vineet Nayar

Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd.Lee Shau Kee

Hindalco Kumar Mangalam Birla

Home Depot Frank Blake

Honeywell David M. Cote

HP Hood LLC John A. Kaneb

HSBC Stuart Gulliver

IBM Samuel J. Palmisano

IKEA Mikael Ohlsson

Inchcape plc André Lacroix

Infosys Technologies Limited S.D. Shibulal

Intel Paul Otellini CEO 2005

ITC Limited Y C Deveshwar CEO andChairman of the Board[17] 1996

J.Crew Millard Drexler CEO 2003

Jefferies & Company Richard B. Handler CEO andChairman 2001

JP Morgan Chase James Dimon CEO andChairman 2004

Juniper Networks Kevin Johnson CEO 2008

Kaplan, Inc. Andrew Rosen

Kingdom Holding Company Al-Waleed bin Talal

Koch Industries Inc. Charles G. Koch

Las Vegas Sands Sheldon Adelson

Lehman Brothers Richard S. (Dick) Fuld, Jr.

L.L. Bean Christopher McCormick

Larsen & Toubro Limited A M Naik

Lockheed Martin Robert Stevens

LPK Jerry Kathman

Macy's, Inc. Terry J. Lundgren

Manchester United David Gill

Marks and Spencer Stuart Rose

McDonald's Jack Greenberg

McKinsey Ian Davis

Mercedes-Benz Dieter Zetsche

Merrill Lynch John Thain

Mesa Air Group Jonathan Ornstein

MetLife C. Robert Henrikson

MGA Entertainment Isaac Larian

Microsoft Steven Anthony Ballmer

Mile High Comics Chuck Rozanski

Morgan Stanley James P. Gorman

Motorola Greg Brown

Mozilla Mitchell Baker

MySQL AB Marten Mickos

MySpace Chris DeWolfe

Nation Media Group Wilfred Kiboro CEO 1993

National Amusements Sumner Redstone

NBC Universal, Inc. Jeff Zucker

Newlog Yochanan Vollach

News Corporation Keith Rupert Murdoch

New York Times Company Janet L. Robinson

NIIT Vijay K. Thadani

Nike Mark Parker

Nissan Carlos Ghosn

Nokia Stephen Elop 2010

Nortel Mike S. Zafirovski

Novartis Daniel Vasella

Nintendo Satoru Iwata

Office Depot Steve Odland

Oxford Sustainable Group Hadley Barrett

Oracle Corporation Larry Ellison

Orascom Telecom Holding Naguib Sawiris

Outback Steakhouse Chris T. Sullivan

iGATE Patni Phaneesh Murthy

PepsiCo Indra Nooyi

Pfizer Henry McKinnell

Pizza Hut David C. Novak

Playboy Enterprises Christie Hefner

Polo Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren

Popular, Inc. Richard Carrión

Procter & Gamble Alan Lafley

Prudential Financial, Inc. John Strangfeld

Qantas Airways Limited Alan Joyce

Qwest Communications InternationalRichard Notebaert

Reliance Industries Limited Mukesh Ambani

Renault Carlos Ghosn

Rite Aid Corporation Mary Sammons

Rocawear Jay-Z

Royal Ahold N.V. John Rishton

Royal Bank of Canada Gordon Nixon

Royal Bank of Scotland Stephen Hester

Royal Dutch Shell Peter Voser

Ryanair Michael O'Leary

S. C. Johnson & Son Herbert Fisk Johnson III

SAAB Automobile AB Jan-Åke Jonsson

SandRidge Energy Tom L. Ward Chairman andCEO 2006

Samsung Kun-Hee Lee

SAP AG Bill McDermott CEO 2010

SAS Institute James Goodnight

Sbarro James J. Greco CEO andPresident 2012

Scottrade Rodger O. Riney

Seagate Technology Steve Luczo

Siemens A.G. Peter Löscher President andCEO 2007

Simon Property Group David Simon

SingTel Chua Sock Koong

Sirius Satellite Radio Mel Karmazin

Sleep Country Canada Steven Gunn

SoftBank Masayoshi Son

Southwest Airlines Gary C. Kelly

Sonic Corporation J. Clifford Hudson Chairman andCEO

Sony Howard Stringer Chairman,President andCEO

Sony Computer Entertainment Andrew House President andCEO

Starbucks Coffee Company Howard Schultz

Statoil Helge Lund

Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. Walter Kwok

Sun Microsystems Jonathan I. Schwartz

SunTrust Banks Inc. James M. Wells, III

Supervalu Inc. Jeff Noddle

Sulekha Satya Prabhakar

Swedbank Jan Lidén

Syntel Inc. Bharat Desai

Target Corporation Gregg Steinhafel Chairman,President, andCEO 2008

Tata Consultancy Services N Chandrasekaran

Tata Steel B Muthuraman

Telefónica César Alierta CEO andChairman 2000

Telmex Carlos Slim Helú

Telstra David Thodey

Temasek Holdings Ho Ching

Tesco PLC Sir Terry Leahy

Thomson Reuters Tom Glocer

Tim Hortons Paul D. House

Time Warner Jeffrey L. Bewkes

Tod's Diego Della Valle Managing Director 1970

TJX Companies, Inc. Carol Meyrowitz

Tracinda Corporation Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian

The Siegel Group Nevada, Inc Stephen Siegel

The Travelers Companies Jay S. Fishman

Trump Organization Donald Trump

Toyota Hiroshi Okuda

Toys for Bob Paul Reiche III

Toys "R" Us Gerald L. Storch

Tradeking Donato A. Montanaro

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Philip I. Kent

Twitter Jack Dorsey

UAL Corporation Glenn F. Tilton

UBS AG Oswald Grübel

U.S. Century Bank Octavio Hernández

US Airways Doug Parker

United Parcel Service D. Scott Davis

UGI Corp. Lon R. Greenberg

United States Steel Corp. John P. Surma

United Technologies Louis R. Chênevert

Valero Energy Corporation William R. Klesse

Verizon Communications Lowell McAdam Chairman and CEO 2011

Viacom Philippe P. Dauman

Viking Range Fred Carl, Jr.

Vodafone Vittorio Colao

Volkswagen Martin Winterkorn

Vulcan Inc. Paul Allen

The Walt Disney Company Robert Iger

Walgreen Company Gregory Wasson

Wal-Mart Mike Duke

Warner Bros. Barry Meyer

Washington Mutual Kerry Killinger

The Washington Post Company Donald Graham

Whole Foods Market John Mackey

Wikia, Inc. Gil Penchina

Williams-Sonoma Laura J. Alber Director, President, and CEO[19] 2010

Windstream Corporation Jeffery Gardner

Winn-Dixie Stores Peter Lynch

Wipro Technologies Limited T K Kurien

World Wrestling Entertainment Vincent K. McMahon Founder, Chairman and CEO[20]1980 Chairman

2009 CEO

Yahoo! Scott Thompson CEO 2012

YG Entertainment Yang Hyun Suk

Yum! Brands, Inc. David C. Novak

Yves Saint Laurent Paul Deneve President 2012

Education Notes

ESSEC Replaced William D. Green, who retained his position of chairman.

New York University (attended); College of Insurance(attended)Former COO of American International Group.

Part of the Birla family business house in India.

Osmania University, Bowling Green State University,Haas School of BusinessFormerly with Apple Inc.

City University of New York

Alfred University Former CEO of MetLife

Utrecht University

Georg August University, University of Würzburg Formerly with Siemens AG.

Indiana University

Princeton University

Hartwick College Formerly with Lenovo Group and IBM

Bowdoin College, Harvard Law School Third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

U.S. Naval Academy, University of Pittsburgh

Baylor University, Southern Methodist University Parent company for American Airlines.

Suffolk University Law School Also on the boards of Cognex Corporation and Xilinx Inc

University of Kansas, Washington University in St. Louis Replaced August Busch IV after sale to InBev.

University of Mumbai, University of Pennsylvania

Connecticut College Formerly with Google.

Auburn University, Fuqua School of Business Assumed position from Steve Jobs

St. Xavier's College, Calcutta

Penn State University

University of Central Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma

Also director of Rotork

Complutense University of Madrid

Brown University, University of Notre Dame Law School

University of Connecticut Business School

University of Pennsylvania, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Columbia UniversityOne of the world's wealthiest people, currently ranked third

None[12]

Punjab University

Yale University, Harvard Business School

University of Pretoria, INSEAD

Munich University of Applied Sciences, Technical University Munich

Yale University, Harvard Business School Formerly CEO of 3M

University of Bochum, Yale University, University of Oxford

University of Illinois, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Southern Methodist University

Baylor University

Northwestern University

University of Cape Town

Stanford University

University of North Dakota

Millikin University

Gannon University, Columbia University

Tarsus American College

Princeton University; University of Michigan Law School

San Diego State University Parent of IHOP and Applebee's

Uppsala University Chairman of the Swedish Handball Association

University of Mannheim Former CEO of Hugo Boss

U.S. Naval Academy, London School of Economics Former chief executive of MCI Communications and Nextel Communications.

Also serves on the board of Google.[16]

Has been with the company since 1968.

Former CEO of The Gap, also director at Apple Inc.

also on the board of the New York Federal Reserve

formerly of Microsoft

Replaced by Linus Gitahi in 2006. Still serves as the chairman of the NMG and Wilfay Investments Ltd. boards and serves on the boards of Standard Chartered Kenya and EABL as a non-executive director.

Former Microsoft employee, he is the first non-Finn CEO at Nokia

University of Oklahoma former President, COO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy

Dowling College, Northwestern University[18]

Georgetown University, University of Miami School of Law Formerly with Le Duff America, Bruegger's, Fieldbrook Farms, and Natural Country Farms

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong,Harvard University, Michigan State UniversityFormerly with General Electric and Merck

Columbia University

(retiring March 2011)

University of Bologna

Cornell University, University of San Diego Former CEO of Verizon Wireless

University of Pennsylvania replaced W. Howard Lester

East Carolina University Chairman of the Executive Committee

Stonehill College Former president at PayPal

Stanford Former president at Lanvin

Replaced William D. Green, who retained his position of chairman.

Former COO of American International Group.

Part of the Birla family business house in India.

Third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

Also on the boards of Cognex Corporation and Xilinx Inc

One of the world's wealthiest people, currently ranked third

Chairman of the Swedish Handball Association

Former chief executive of MCI Communications and Nextel Communications.

Former CEO of The Gap, also director at Apple Inc.

also on the board of the New York Federal Reserve

Replaced by Linus Gitahi in 2006. Still serves as the chairman of the NMG and Wilfay Investments Ltd. boards and serves on the boards of Standard Chartered Kenya and EABL as a non-executive director.

Former Microsoft employee, he is the first non-Finn CEO at Nokia

former President, COO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy

Formerly with Le Duff America, Bruegger's, Fieldbrook Farms, and Natural Country Farms

Replaced by Linus Gitahi in 2006. Still serves as the chairman of the NMG and Wilfay Investments Ltd. boards and serves on the boards of Standard Chartered Kenya and EABL as a non-executive director.

The Top 100 Powerful CEO’s in India

Name Company/Group Rank

2010 2009

Ratan Tata Tata Sons 1 1

Mukesh Ambani Reliance Industries 2 2

NR Narayana Murthy Infosys Technologies 3 3

Anil Ambani Reliance ADAG 4 4

Sunil Mittal Bharti Group 5 9

Azim Hasham Premji Wipro 6 10

Kumar Mangalam Birla AV Birla Group 7 11

Rahul Bajaj Bajaj Auto 8 19

Anand G Mahindra Mahindra & Mahindra 9 13

Vijay Mallya UB Group 10 6

S Gopalakrishnan Infosys Technologies 11 12

OP Bhatt State Bank of India 12 17

Chanda Kochhar ICICI bank 13 14

Vinita Bali Britannia 14 NA

Venu Srinivasan TVS Motors 15 26

Shiv Nadar HCL Technologies 16 25

Uday Kotak Kotak Mahindra 17 35

Harsh Goenka RPG 18 42

A B Godrej Godrej Group 19 27

Shashikant N Ruia Essar Group 20 38

AM Naik L&T 21 15

Ravikant N Ruia Essar Group 22 NA

T S Vijayan LIC 23 33

Aditya Puri HDFC Bank 24 22

Kishore Biyani Future Group 25 24

Shikha Sharma Axis Bank 26 52

Subhash Chandra Zee Telefilms 27 40

K P Singh DLF Group 28 39

Vineet Nayyar HCL Technologies 29 39

Rajiv Bajaj Bajaj Auto 30 18

Manoj Kohli Bharti Airtel 31 NA

K R Kamath Punjab National Bank 32 NA

Deepak S Parekh HDFC 33 7

G M Rao GMR Infrastructure 34 44

Gautam Singhania Raymond 35 53

Hari Shankar Singhania JK Tyre 36 NA

Vineet Nayar Tech Mahindra 37 NA

Naina Lal Kidwai HSBC 38 32

Yogesh Chander Deveshwar ITC 39 16

Pawan Munjal Hero Honda Motors 40 31

Anand Burman Dabur 41 NA

Neeraj Swaroop Standard Chartered 42 84

Naresh Goyal Jet Airways 43 20

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Biocon 44 28

SP Hinduja Hinduja Group 45 59

Shinzo Nakanishi Maruti Suzuki India 46 77

Naveen Jindal Jindal Steel 47 36

Jaiprakash Gaur Jaypee Group 48 NA

N Chandrasekaran TCS 49 NA

MA Alagappan Murugappa Group 50 46

Nusli N Wadia Bombay Dyeing 51 NA

M M Murugappan Murugappa Group 52 NA

R Seshasayee Ashok Leyland 53 49

Deepak Puri Moser Baer 54 NA

Yogesh Aggarwal IDBI 55 78

Ajay G Piramal Piramal Enterprises 56 91

PM Telang Tata Motors 57 NA

Nitin Paranjpe Hindustan Unilever 58 62

Ratan Jindal JSL 59 60

Venugopal N Dhoot Videocon International 60 51

Gautam Adani Adani Enterprise 61 92

B N Kalyani Bharat Forge 62 88

Habil F Khorakiwala Wockhardt 63 NA

PRS Oberoi East India Hotels 64 37

Sajjan Jindal JSW Steel 65 56

R K Krishna Kumar Tata Sons 66 NA

Analjit Singh Max India 67 NA

P R Menon Tata Power 68 63

Suneel M Advani Bluestar 69 NA

N Srinath Tata Communications 70 NA

R S Sharma ONGC 71 54

K M Mammen MRF 72 34

Dilip S Shanghvi Sun Pharmaceuticals 73 90

Anil Agarwal Sterlite Industries 74 50

Atul Sobti Ranbaxy 75 NA

K Anji Reddy Dr Reddy’s Laboratories 76 41

Narendra K Patni Patni Computer Systems 77 NA

K K Patel Nirma 78 NA

Ramesh Chandra Unitech 79 NA

T V Ramanathan Exide Industries 80 NA

Percy Siganporia Tata Tea 81 72

Amitabh Jhunjhunwala Reliance Capital 82 NA

Sanjeev Aga Idea 83 NA

S K Roongta Sail 84 97

Malvinder Singh Religare 85 67

Rajan Nanda Escorts 86 NA

Ashok Sinha Bharat Petroleum 87 73

Sarthak Behuria Indian Oil Corporation 88 NA

Debu Bhattacharya Hindalco Industries 89 57

Harsh Mariwala Marico 90 87

B C Tripathi Gail 91 NA

Tulsi R Tanti Suzlon 92 NA

Ajay Shriram DCM Shriram 93 98

Atul Punj Punj Lloyd 94 NA

Onkar S Kanwar Apollo Tyres 95 81

Shyam Bhartia Jubilant Organosys 96 NA

B P Rao BHEL 97 75

Ashwin Dani Asian Paints 98 71

Arun Balakrishnan Hindustan Petroleum 99 76

Meher Pudumjee Thermax 100 N