Who is the best CEO in the world? JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Tesla’s Elon Musk, or Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook? Or is it one of the old classics like Warren Buffett or Bernard Arnault? Well known or unknown, these are the most successful, talented, and influential CEOs for long-term investors to watch as they build great businesses that are worth holding for decades.
The CEOWORLD magazine has revealed its annual list of the most influential chief executive officers (CEOs) and business executives in the world. Unsurprisingly, Tim Cook (Apple) came first in the CEOWORLD magazine’s global ranking of the world’s best chief executives across all industries for 2022. He is followed by Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. and CEO Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (Google). The 2022 rankings placed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in 4th spot ahead of Tesla’s Elon Musk into 5th, and Meta (Facebook) founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ranked sixth. Across multiple industries, leaders in tech, finance and manufacturing top the list with the most winners.
Of course, no list of CEOs to watch for long-term investing would be complete without including Warren Buffett, 90 years old and the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) (NYSE:BRK.B). While Buffett ranked seventh, and Dr. C.C. Wei of TSMC Taiwan eighth. Overall, among the top 10 best CEOs and business executives in the world for 2022, the eighth, ninth, and tenth positions are held by Dr. C.C. Wei of TSMC Taiwan, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Visa Inc. chief executive Alfred F Kelly Jr.
Best CEOs In The World Of 2022
| Rank | Chief Executive Officer | Company | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tim Cook | Apple | US |
| 2 | Satya Nadella | Microsoft | US |
| 3 | Sundar Pichai | Alphabet (Google) | US |
| 4 | Andy Jassy | Amazon | US |
| 5 | Elon Musk | Tesla | US |
| 6 | Mark Zuckerberg | Meta (Facebook) | US |
| 7 | Warren Buffett | Berkshire Hathaway | US |
| 8 | Dr. C.C. Wei | TSMC | Taiwan |
| 9 | Jensen Huang | Nvidia | US |
| 10 | Alfred F Kelly Jr | Visa Inc. | US |
| 11 | Jamie Dimon | JPMorgan Chase | US |
| 12 | Alex Gorsky | Johnson & Johnson | US |
| 13 | Doug McMillon | Walmart | US |
| 14 | Bernard Arnault | LVMH | France |
| 15 | Brian Moynihan | Bank of America | US |
| 16 | Ulf Mark Schneider | Nestle | Switzerland |
| 17 | Michael Miebach | Mastercard | US |
| 18 | David S. Taylor | Procter & Gamble | US |
| 19 | Andrew Witty | UnitedHealth Group | US |
| 20 | Amin H. Nasser | Saudi Aramco | Saudi Arabia |
| 21 | Ma Huateng | Tencent | China |
| 22 | Craig Menear | Home Depot | US |
| 23 | Daniel Zhang | Alibaba | China |
| 24 | Severin Schwan | Roche | Switzerland |
| 25 | Darren Woods | Exxon Mobil | US |
| 26 | Albert Bourla | Pfizer | US |
| 27 | Peter Wennink | ASML Holding | Netherlands |
| 28 | Akio Toyoda | Toyota | Japan |
| 29 | James Quincey | Coca-Cola | US |
| 30 | Bob Chapek | Walt Disney | US |
| 31 | Shantanu Narayen | Adobe | US |
| 32 | Michael Wirth | Chevron Corporation | US |
| 33 | Ramon Laguarta | Pepsi | US |
| 34 | Chuck Robbins | Cisco Systems | US |
| 35 | Richard A. Gonzalez | AbbVie | US |
| 36 | John Donahoe | Nike | US |
| 37 | David A. Ricks | Eli Lilly | US |
| 38 | Brian L. Roberts | Comcast Corporation | US |
| 39 | Marc N. Casper | Thermo Fisher Scientific | US |
| 40 | Tan Hock Eng | Broadcom | US |
| 41 | Hans Vestberg | Verizon Communications | US |
| 42 | Nicolas Hieronimus | LOreal | France |
| 43 | Safra Catz | Oracle | US |
| 44 | Marc Benioff | Salesforce | US |
| 45 | Robert Ford | Abbott Laboratories | US |
| 46 | Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen | Novo Nordisk | Denmark |
| 47 | Walter Craig Jelinek | Costco | US |
| 48 | Mukesh Ambani | Reliance | India |
| 49 | Julie Sweet | Accenture | Ireland |
| 50 | Patrick P. Gelsinger | Intel Corporation | US |
| 51 | Charles W. Scharf | Wells Fargo | US |
| 52 | Robert M. Davis | Merck | US |
| 53 | Rainer M. Blair | Danaher Corporation | US |
| 54 | Cristiano Amon | Qualcomm | US |
| 55 | Rajesh Gopinathan | Tata Consultancy Services | India |
| 56 | Vasant (Vas) Narasimhan | Novartis | Switzerland |
| 57 | Dan Schulman | PayPal | US |
| 58 | Christopher John Kempczinski | McDonald | US |
| 59 | John T. Stankey | AT&T | US |
| 60 | Ben van Beurden | Shell | Netherlands |
| 61 | Carol B. Tome | United Parcel Service | US |
| 62 | Pascal Soriot | AstraZeneca | UK |
| 63 | Bob van Dijk | Prosus | Netherlands |
| 64 | James P. Gorman | Morgan Stanley | US |
| 65 | Reed Hastings/Ted Sarandos | Netflix | US |
| 66 | Walter W Bettinger II | Charles Schwab | US |
| 67 | Mike Henry | BHP | Australia |
| 68 | Rich Templeton | Texas Instruments | US |
| 69 | David I. McKay | Royal Bank of Canada | Canada |
| 70 | Steve Angel | Linde plc | Ireland |
| 71 | James L Robo | NextEra Energy | US |
| 72 | Christian Klein | SAP | Germany |
| 73 | Lance M. Fritz | Union Pacific Railroad | US |
| 74 | Marvin Ellison | Lowes | US |
| 75 | Jacek Olczak | Philip Morris | US |
| 76 | Axel Dumas | Hermes | France |
| 77 | Sasan K. Goodarzi | Intuit | US |
| 78 | Patrick Pouyanne | TotalEnergies | France |
| 79 | Bharat Masrani | Toronto-Dominion Bank | Canada |
| 80 | Geoffrey S. Martha | Medtronic | Ireland |
| 81 | Darius Adamczyk | Honeywell | US |
| 82 | Lisa Su | Advanced Micro Devices | US |
| 83 | Noel Paul Quinn | HSBC Holdings | UK |
| 84 | Kenichiro Yoshida | Sony Group | Japan |
| 85 | Alan Jope | Unilever PLC | UK |
| 86 | Giovanni Caforio | Bristol Myers Squibb | US |
| 87 | Karen S. Lynch | CVS Health | US |
| 88 | Michael Sievert | T-Mobile US | US |
| 89 | Pietro Beccari | Dior | France |
| 90 | Gregory J. Hayes | Raytheon | US |
| 91 | Roland Busch | Siemens | Germany |
| 92 | Paul Hudson | Sanofi | France |
| 93 | Robert A. Bradway | Amgen | US |
| 94 | Sashidhar Jagdishan | HDFC Bank | India |
| 95 | Jane Fraser | Citigroup | US |
| 96 | Gary E. Dickerson | Applied Materials | US |
| 97 | Stephen Squeri | American Express | US |
| 98 | Herbert Diess | Volkswagen | Germany |
| 99 | Jakob Stausholm | Rio Tinto | UK |
| 100 | Dave Calhoun | Boeing | US |
| 101 | Larry Fink | BlackRock | US |
| 102 | Matt Comyn | Commonwealth Bank | Australia |
| 103 | Tobias Lutke | Shopify | Canada |
| 104 | Ivan Menezes | Diageo | UK |
| 105 | Jim Umpleby | Caterpillar | US |
| 106 | Arvind Krishna | IBM | US |
| 107 | Kevin Johnson | Starbucks | US |
| 108 | David M. Solomon | Goldman Sachs | US |
| 109 | Michel Doukeris | Anheuser-Busch InBe | Belgium |
| 110 | Hamid Moghadam | Prologis | US |
| 111 | Tom Bartlett | American Tower | US |
| 112 | John C. May | John Deere | US |
| 113 | Emma Walmsley | GlaxoSmithKline | UK |
| 114 | Ryan Lance | ConocoPhillips | US |
| 115 | Fabrizio Freda | Estee Lauder | US |
| 116 | H. Lawrence Culp Jr. | General Electric | US |
| 117 | Brian Cornell | Target | US |
| 118 | Bill McDermott | ServiceNow | US |
| 119 | Shemara Wikramanayake | Macquarie | Australia |
| 120 | Tom Rutledge | Charter Communications | US |
| 121 | Jim Taiclet | Lockheed Martin | US |
| 122 | Oliver Bate | Allianz | Germany |
| 123 | Bernard Looney | BP | UK |
| 124 | Scott Charlton | Transurban | Australia |
| 125 | Douglas L. Peterson | S&P Global | US |
| 126 | Jack Bowles | British American Tobacco | UK |
| 127 | Yousef Al-Benyan | SABIC | Saudi Arabia |
| 128 | Mike Roman | 3M Company | US |
| 129 | Salil Parekh | Infosys | India |
| 130 | Pablo Isla | Inditex | Spain |
| 131 | Gary S Guthart | Intuitive Surgical | US |
| 132 | Guillaume Faury | Airbus | Netherlands |
| 133 | Waleed A. Al-Mogbel | Al Rajhi Bank | Saudi Arabia |
| 134 | Jean-Pascal Tricoire | Schneider Electric | France |
| 135 | Kevin A. Lobo | Stryker Corporation | US |
| 136 | Kristin C. Peck | Zoetis | US |
| 137 | Thomas H. McInnerney | Mondelez | US |
| 138 | Brian Chesky | Airbnb | US |
| 139 | Belen Garijo | Merck Group | Germany |
| 140 | Sanjay Mehrotra | Micron Technology | US |
| 141 | Carlos A. Rodriguez | Automatic Data Processing | US |
| 142 | Billy Gifford | Altria Group | US |
| 143 | Anders Opedal | Equinor | Norway |
| 144 | Francois-Henri Pinault | Kering | France |
| 145 | Alexey Miller | PJSC Gazprom | Russia |
| 146 | Paul Perreault | CSL Limited | Australia |
| 147 | Timotheus Hottges | Deutsche Telekom | Germany |
| 148 | Timothy Archer | Lam Research | US |
| 149 | Brian J. Porter | Scotiabank | Canada |
| 150 | Daniel O’Day | Gilead Sciences | US |
| 151 | William S. Demchak | PNC Financial Services | US |
| 152 | Jean-Laurent Bonnafe | BNP Paribas | France |
| 153 | Frank Slootman | Snowflake | US |
| 154 | Vincent Roche | Analog Devices | US |
| 155 | Faisal Omar al-Sakkaf | Saudi National Bank | Saudi Arabia |
| 156 | Bruce Flatt | Brookfield Asset Management | Canada |
| 157 | Evan G. Greenberg | Chubb Limited | Switzerland |
| 158 | Andrew Cecere | U.S. Bancorp | US |
| 159 | Francesco Milleri | EssilorLuxottica | France |
| 160 | Kelly S. King | Truist Financial | US |
| 161 | Ola Kallenius | Daimler | Germany |
| 162 | Joaquim Silva e Luna | Petrobras | Brazil |
| 163 | Ernie Herrman | TJX Companies | US |
| 164 | Al Monaco | Enbridge | Canada |
| 165 | Jim Farley | Ford Motor | US |
| 166 | Benoit Potier | Air Liquide | France |
| 167 | Terrence A. Duffy | CME Group | US |
| 168 | Daniel S. Glaser | Marsh McLennan | US |
| 169 | Francesco Starace | Enel | Italy |
| 170 | Jay A. Brown | Crown Castle | US |
| 171 | Jerome Lambert | Compagnie Richemont | Switzerland |
| 172 | Lynn Good | Duke Energy | US |
| 173 | Masayoshi Son | SoftBank | Japan |
| 174 | David Cordani | Cigna | US |
| 175 | John G. Morikis | Sherwin-Williams | US |
| 176 | Stephen A. Schwarzman | Blackstone Inc | US |
| 177 | Mary Barra | General Motors | US |
| 178 | James M. Foote | CSX Corporation | US |
| 179 | Samuel N. Hazen | HCA Healthcare | US |
| 180 | Sandeep Bakhshi | ICICI Bank | India |
| 181 | Ernest Scott Santi | Illinois Tool Work | US |
| 182 | Bernd Montag | Siemens Healthineers | Germany |
| 183 | Thomas Polen | Becton, Dickinson and Company | US |
| 184 | Thomas Buberl | Axa S.A. | France |
| 185 | Darryl White | Bank of Montreal | Canada |
| 186 | Mats Rahmstrom | Atlas Copco | Sweden |
| 187 | Sanjiv Mehta | Hindustan Unilever | India |
| 188 | Bjorn Rosengren | ABB | Switzerland |
| 189 | Jeffrey C. Sprecher | Intercontinental Exchange | US |
| 190 | Noel R. Wallace | Colgate-Palmolive | US |
| 191 | Jose Ignacio Sanchez Galan | Iberdrola | Spain |
| 192 | Dara Khosrowshahi | Uber | US |
| 193 | Gary Nagle | Glencore | Switzerland |
| 194 | Mario Greco | Zurich Insurance Group | Switzerland |
| 195 | Frank Bisignano | Fiserv | US |
| 196 | Oliver Zipse | BMW | Germany |
| 197 | Piyush Gupta | DBS Bank | Singapore |
| 198 | Leonard Schleifer | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | US |
| 199 | Martin Brudermuller | BASF SE | Germany |
| 200 | Charles J. Meyers | Equinix | US |
The World’s Most Influential Chief Executives Of 2022
Methodology (The CEO Leaderboard): CEOWORLD magazine’s global ranking of the best chief executives for 2022 measured more than 1,200 CEOs across 96 countries. Taking a long view of business performance, the methodology is primarily based on the financial returns for the CEO’s entire tenure, which makes up 60 per cent of the final ranking, as opposed to stock price and the current quarter’s numbers.
To calculate the final position, the additional 40 per cent of a CEO’s ranking factors in a company’s track record on environmental, governance, and social issues, as well as market shares, change of market capitalization, and brand’s newsworthiness and impact.
