Best Most Influential Tech CEOs In 2025

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This ranking identifies the technology leaders whose vision, execution, and impact are most profoundly shaping the global digital landscape in 2025. Influence is measured not merely by market capitalization, but by a CEO's ability to drive paradigm-shifting innovation, define new markets, cultivate transformative company cultures, and exert a tangible impact on society, the economy, and the future of technology. Our evaluation synthesizes criteria including technological innovation (breakthro...

0 Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, is the defining architect of the AI era. His decades-long, unwavering bet on GPU-accelerated com...

9.8
Excellent
Best
1 Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, executed one of the most remarkable corporate turnarounds in history, revitalizing a perceived legacy giant...

9.6
Excellent
2 Tim Cook
Tim Cook

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, is the master executor who scaled the vision of Steve Jobs into the world's first $3 trillion company, defining the...

9.4
Excellent
3 Andy Jassy
Andy Jassy

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, took the helm from founder Jeff Bezos in 2021 and has steered the colossal conglomerate through a period of post-...

9.2
Excellent
4 Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta, is a relentless and controversial shaper of global social connectivity and digital interaction....

9.1
Excellent
5 Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, oversees the world's primary gateway to information and its most influential AI research organiza...

9.0
Excellent
6 Lisa Su
Lisa Su

Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, is celebrated for executing one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in semiconductor history, transforming AMD fr...

8.9
Very Good
7 Sam Altman
Sam Altman

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is the most visible and influential figure in the generative AI revolution. As the leader of the organization tha...

8.8
Very Good
8 Zhang Yiming
Zhang Yiming

Zhang Yiming, founder and former CEO of ByteDance, is the architect behind the first Chinese internet company to achieve genuine global domi...

8.7
Very Good
9 Elon Musk
Elon Musk

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of X (formerly Twitter), is a polarizing but undeniable force of technological ambition and di...

8.6
Very Good
10 Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky

Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, redefined global travel and the concept of 'home' by building a trusted community marketplace th...

8.4
Very Good
11 Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings, co-founder and former co-CEO of Netflix, is the visionary who executed a series of daring pivots that transformed entertainme...

8.2
Very Good