The Top 10 Tech Company CEOs in America
Which technology company CEOs are most admired by their employees? The following list contains some familiar names—and some surprises.
Employee approval rating: 99%. Before he became a CEO, Kavanaugh achieved success in soccer, playing for the 1984 Olympic team, as well as the Los Angeles Lazers, part of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Employee approval rating: 99%. Rankin and his team recently lead Fast Enterprises, a government software provider, to reach the 1,000-employee mark, doubling its workforce in just over two years.
Employee approval rating: 99%. Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993, and he is president, CEO and a member of the board. He was named to the U.S. Immigrant Entrepreneur Hall of Fame when it was established in 2012.
Employee approval rating: 98%. Halligan is also an author, and one of his books is Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead. A longtime “Deadhead,” he once donated $1.6 million to charity to acquire a guitar owned by Jerry Garcia.
Employee approval rating: 98%. In addition to putting in as much as 60 hours a week at Facebook, Zuckerberg is learning Mandarin Chinese, and he tries to read a new book every two weeks.
Employee approval rating: 98%. This CEO honor is just one of a number of accolades: Beauchamp’s Paylocity has been named a top 15 “Best Place to Work” by Glassdoor and a “Fast 500” company by Deloitte.
Employee approval rating: 97%. A martial arts enthusiast, Smith earned his black belt at age 18. “Soon after, I was teaching an entire school,” he told a reporter. “It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.”
Employee approval rating: 97%. A noted philanthropist, Benioff established the “1-1-1 model” at Salesforce shortly after launching it in 1999: The company contributes 1% of its product sales, 1% of its equity and 1% of its employee hours back to the global communities it serves.
Employee approval rating: 96%. While in college, Pichai lived in a small apartment without a TV or car. Last year, he nearly doubled his 2015 compensation, earning $199.7 million.
Employee approval rating: 96%. Before Adobe, Narayen co-founded Pictra, a company that pioneered the idea of digital photo sharing on the internet.