Top Tech CEOs

Mark Zuckerberg pulls the strings of Facebook Inc. In fact he has been the chairman and CEO of the company since 2004. The press has highly publicized the youngest billionaire and gave him a positive image. Even if The Social Network, a film made by David Fincher, said “you don’t get 500 millions friends without making a few enemies”. It seems to be different in reality, a survey from GlassDoor showed that 99% of polled internet users approved him as the CEO of Facebook. His popularity is intact, but what about his skills. Mark Zuckerberg was at the forefront 8 years ago, but will he be at the forefront in the coming years? Nothing could be less certain. In fact, Facebook has not innovated much in the last two years, while competitors such as Google Plus or other upcoming social networks arrive with new concepts and ideas.

Jeff Weiner served in various leadership roles at Yahoo for over seven years beginning in 2001. Then he became the CEO of LinkedIn, a business-related social networking website.

I put him in this top 5 because of his mindset. As a manager, Weiner takes time to acknowledge relatively small accomplishments by his employees. He always ends a speech by asking to the audience what he could have done better.

Larry Page, Google’s cofounder and CEO since April 2011, saw the company through the $50 billion revenue milestone in 2012. The role of a CEO is not necessarily to be widely publicized, you just have to find the right balance between skills and commitment. In contradiction with others CEOs, he has a quiet and reserved personality coupled with intense passion and will.Larry Page do not think that Google Inc. is restricted to a search engine. This is why he has supported the research and development which is essential in the field of technology to diversify its services. This strategy is already bearing fruit, Google has expanded its market to Chromebook, Google Plus, Android, Google Glass, Blogger, Youtube, Google Chrome, GMail and much more.

Jeff Bezos played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc. In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as America’s best CEO. He thinks that “long-term thinking squares the circle” And it works, his small books store became the fifth most visited website in the United States of America. But the long term is not enough, he also innovates in the short term. The best example is probably the Amazon Kindle, a cheap tablet that can be accessed in high brightness. As of October 2012, about 7 million units have been sold according to estimates by Forrester Research, making the Kindle Fire the second-best-selling tablet after the iPad

Ginni Rometty’s appointment as President and CEO of IBM in 2011 was a landmark event at one of the most storied companies in the world and an icon of American technology innovation. According to Forbes, she is in the second most powerful woman in the field of technology and she has the first spot in their annual ranking of the Most Powerful Women in Business.

The reason why I added Ginni Rometty in this classification is that she has successfully restructured IBM. That was not an easy task. Indeed, during the period from 2000 to 2007, the action did not ceased to fall. The reasons: a bad strategy and incorrect positioning on the market. Then, the company has refocused on research and data management. This strategy worked, IBM has doubled its share value in less than 5 years.