#10: Ming Kai Tsai
COMPANY: MediaTek Inc
MediaTek Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that provides system-on-chip
solutions for smartphones, tablets, optical drives, digital
televisions, set-top boxes, GPS units, Wi-Fi routers and Bluetooth
devices. Headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the company has 25 offices worldwide and is one of the top 25 semiconductor suppliers globally by sales volume.
Since its founding in 1997, MediaTek has democratized the global
market for smartphones, among other products, through the creation of
turnkey chipset solutions.
The solutions comprise comprehensive software and hardware components
designed to enable equipment makers to focus less on engineering and
more on establishing brand identity and recognition. MediaTek also provides its customers with reference designs and directions on how to implement its solutions.
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#9: Tim Koogle
Timothy Koogle was first
CEO and President of web company
Yahoo! between 1995 and 2001.
He served as the company's
chairman from 1999-2003. He was named to the Top 25 Executives of the Year by
BusinessWeek in 1999 and 2000.
Prior to working for Yahoo! Koogle worked for
Intermec and
Motorola.
He obtained a
B.S. degree from the
University of Virginia in
mechanical engineering, an
M.S. degree from
Stanford University in
engineering and a
Ph.D from Stanford University in engineering
#8 Tomeo Kanbayashi
NTT Data
1995-1999
Japan
Information Technology
Insider CEO
MBA: No
Country-Adjusted TSR: 658%
Industry-Adjusted TSR: 436%
#7 John W. Thompson
John W. Thompson (born April 24, 1949) is a former vice-president at
IBM and the former
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
Symantec Corporation. He is presently the CEO of Virtual Instruments. During his tenure as CEO of Symantec, he was the only
African American leading a major technology company.
Born in
Fort Dix, New Jersey, Thompson attended John F. Kennedy High School in Riviera Beach, Florida (now
Suncoast Community High School). He received a
Bachelor of Business Administration from
Florida A&M in 1971 and a
Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) from the
Sloan Fellows program of the
MIT Sloan School of Management in 1983.
#6 Eric E. Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American
software engineer, businessman, and the
executive chairman of
Google.
In 2013,
Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 138th-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $8.3 billion.
As an intern at
Bell Labs, Schmidt did a complete re-write of the
Lex analysis software program for the
Unix computer operating system. From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive officer of
Novell.
From 2001 to 2011, he served as the CEO of Google. He served on various
other boards in academia and industry, such as the boards of trustees
for both
Carnegie Mellon University and
Princeton University.
Eric Emerson Schmidt was born in
Washington, D.C.; some sources state
Falls Church, Virginia.
He was one of three sons of Eleanor, who had a master's degree in psychology, and Wilson Schmidt, a
German-American professor of international economics at the
Johns Hopkins University, who worked at the
U.S. Treasury Department during the
Nixon Administration.
He grew up in
Blacksburg, Virginia, and Falls Church, Virginia.
Schmidt graduated from
Yorktown High School in
Arlington, Virginia, in 1972, after earning eight
varsity letter awards in long-distance running.
[12][13] He then attended
Princeton University, where he started as an architecture major but then switched and earned a
B.S. degree in
electrical engineering in 1976.
From 1976 to 1980, Schmidt stayed at the
International House Berkeley, where he met his future wife, Wendy Boyle. In 1979, at the
University of California, Berkeley, Schmidt then earned an
M.S. degree for designing and implementing a
network linking the campus computer center with the CS and
EECS departments.
There, he also earned a
Ph.D.
degree in 1982 in EECS, with a dissertation about the problems of
managing distributed software development and tools for solving these
problems.
He was joint author during his summers at
Bell Labs of
Lex (a software
lexical analyzer and an important tool for
compiler construction). He taught at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business in the 2000s as a lecturer in strategic management.
In June 1980, Schmidt married
Wendy Susan Boyle (born in
Short Hills, New Jersey, in 1957). They lived in
Atherton, California, in the 1990s.
They have two daughters, Sophie and Allison.
The two separated in 2011
That year, Schmidt dated Lisa Shields, a communications executive for the
Council on Foreign Relations.
In 2012, he was dating
concert pianist and artist Chau-Giang Nguyen, who was formerly engaged to Hollywood Oscar-winning TV and movie producer
Brian Grazer until they split in 2011.
#5 John T. Chambers
John T. Chambers (born August 23, 1949) is
Chairman of the Board and
CEO of
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Chambers was born on August 23, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio to John Tuner "Jack" and June Chambers.
His mother was a psychiatrist and his father was an
obstetrician.
The family resided in Kanawha City,West Virginia.
When Chambers was nine years old, he was diagnosed with
dyslexia.
Aided by a therapist, Chambers learned to cope with his disability.He holds a
bachelor of science /
bachelor of arts degree in business and a law degree from
West Virginia University and a
master of business administration degree in finance and management from
Indiana University.
Previously, he also attended the
School of Engineering at
Duke University from 1967 to 1968.After obtaining his MBA, Chambers began his career in technology sales at
IBM.
After six years, he moved to Wang Laboratories. There, he became the
Vice President of U.S. Operations in 1987. He then left Wang in 1991 and
joined Cisco
#4 Margaret C. Whitman
Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive. She is the president and chief executive officer of
Hewlett-Packard.
A native of
Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of
Princeton University and
Harvard Business School. Whitman served as an executive in
The Walt Disney Company where she was vice president of strategic planning throughout the 1980s. In the 1990s, she served as an executive for
DreamWorks,
Procter & Gamble, and
Hasbro. Whitman served as president and chief executive officer of
eBay
from 1998 to 2008. During her 10 years with the company, she oversaw
its expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more
than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue.
In 2008, she was cited by
The New York Times as among the women most likely to become the first female President of the United States.
In February 2009, Whitman announced her candidacy for
Governor of California,
becoming the third woman in a 20-year period to run for the office. She
won the Republican primary in June 2010. The fourth wealthiest woman in
the state of California with a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010,
she spent more of her own money on the race than any other political candidate spent on a single election in American history,
spending $144 million total of her own fortune and $178.5 million including donors.
Whitman lost to
Jerry Brown in the November 2 election.
#3 Yun Jong-Yong
Jong-Yong Yun served as a Company Adviser of Samsung Electronics Co.
Ltd. since May 2008. Mr. Yun served as Chief Executive Officer of
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. until May 2008. Mr. Yun served as
President and Chief Executive Officer of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.,
since 1996 and Co-Chief Executive Officer since 2000 and served as
President and Chief Executive Officer of Samsung Japan Headquarters
since 1995. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of
Samsung Display Devices Co., Ltd., since 1993; President and Chief
Executive Officer of Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., since 1992;
President and Representative Director of Consumer Electronics Business
Group since 1991; Vice President Representative Director, Consumer of
Electronics Business Group since 1990 and Vice President of Electronics
Group since 1988. Mr. Yun served as Chief Executive Officer, Vice
Chairman and Director of Samsung C&T Corporation (formerly Samsung
Corp.). He entered The Samsung Group in 1966. Since November 1981 he
served as Head of The Video Business Division. Mr. Yun serves as
Chairman of The National Academy of Engineers. He served as Vice
Chairman of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. from 2000 to May 2008 and of
it's Director until May 14, 2008. Mr. Yun received Asia's Businessman of
the Year (Fortune), in 2000, The Top 25 Managers of the Year (Business
Week), in 1999, The Prize for The Most Successful Chief Executive
Officer in Korea (Korea Management Association), in 1998, Outstanding
Achievement in Management (IIE), in 1995, The Prize for The Honorable
Engineering Alumnus Graduated from Seoul National University, in 1992,
Gold Medal for Contribution to Industry by the Government, in 1990,
Bronze Medal for Contribution to Industry by the Government. Mr. Yun
completed Graduation from MIT Sloan School Senior Executive Course
in1988, B.A. in Electronics and Graduated from Seoul National University
in 1966
#2 Jeffrey P. Bezos
Jeffrey P. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother was
still in her teens, and her marriage to his father lasted little more
than a year. She remarried when Jeffrey was four. Jeffrey's stepfather,
Mike Bezos, was born in Cuba; he escaped to the United States alone at
age 15, and worked his way through the University of Albuquerque. When
he married Jeffrey's mother, the family moved to Houston, where Mike
Bezos became an engineer for Exxon. Jeffrey's maternal ancestors were
early settlers in Texas, and over the generations had acquired a
25,000-acre ranch at Cotulla. Jeffrey's grandfather was a regional
director of the Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. He retired
early to the family ranch, where Jeffrey spent most of the summers of
his youth, working with his grandfather at the enormously varied tasks
essential to the operationFrom an early age, Jeffrey displayed a striking
mechanical aptitude. Even as a toddler, he asserted himself by
dismantling his crib with a screwdriver. He also developed intense and
varied scientific interests, rigging an electric alarm to keep his
younger siblings out of his room and converting his parents' garage into
a laboratory for his science projects. When he was a teenager, the
family moved to Miami, Florida. In high school in Miami, Jeffrey first
fell in love with computers. An outstanding student, he was
valedictorian of his class. He entered Princeton University planning to
study physics, but soon returned to his love of computers, and graduated
with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering.
After graduation, Jeff Bezos found employment on Wall Street, where
computer science was increasingly in demand to study market trends. His
went to work at Fitel, a start-up company that was building a network to
conduct international trade. He stayed in the finance realm with
Bankers Trust, rising to a vice presidency. At D. E. Shaw, a firm
specializing in the application of computer science to the stock market,
Bezos was hired as much for his overall talent as for any particular
assignment. While working at Shaw, Jeff met his wife, Mackenzie, also a
Princeton graduate. He rose quickly at Shaw, becoming a senior vice
president, and looked forward to a bright career in finance, when he
made a discovery that changed his life -- and the course of business
history.
The Internet was originally created by the Defense Department to keep
its computer networks connected during an emergency, such as natural
catastrophe or enemy attack. Over the years, it was adopted by
government and academic researchers to exchange data and messages, but
as late as 1994, there was still no Internet commerce to speak of. One
day that spring, Jeffrey Bezos observed that Internet usage was
increasing by 2,300 percent a year. He saw an opportunity for a new
sphere of business, and immediately began considering the possibilities.
#1 Steve Jobs
Steven Paul "
Steve"
Jobs (
February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)
was an American
entrepreneur,
marketer,
and inventor,
who was the co-founder (along with
Steve Wozniak and
Ronald Wayne), chairman, and CEO of
Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the
personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and
consumer electronics fields, transforming "one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies"
Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of
Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of
The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of
Xerox PARC's
mouse-driven
graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the
Apple Lisa and, one year later, the
Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the
LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market.
After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded
NeXT, a
computer platform
development company specializing in the higher-education and business
markets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of
Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar.
He was credited in
Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and majority shareholder until Disney's purchase of Pixar in 2006.
In 1996, after Apple had failed to deliver its operating system,
Copland,
Gil Amelio turned to NeXT Computer, and the
NeXTSTEP platform became the foundation for the
Mac OS X.
Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company
as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to
profitability by 1998.
As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the
iMac,
iTunes,
iPod,
iPhone, and
iPad, and on the services side, the company's
Apple Retail Stores,
iTunes Store and the
App Store.
The success of these products and services provided several years of
stable financial returns, and propelled Apple to become the world's most
valuable publicly traded company in 2011.
The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.
In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a
pancreas neuroendocrine tumor.
Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone imbalance,
underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner
as his health declined.
On medical leave for most of 2011, Jobs resigned in August that year, and was elected Chairman of the Board. He died of
respiratory arrest related to his tumor on October 5, 2011.
Jobs received a number of honors and public recognition for his
influence in the technology and music industries. He has been referred
to as "legendary", a "futurist" or simply "visionary"
and has been described as the "Father of the Digital Revolution"
a "master of innovation",
"the master evangelist of the digital age
and a "design perfectionist"
