The following is a list of chief executive officers (CEOs) of notable companies. The list also includes lead executives with a position corresponding to CEO (Managing Director), and any concurrent positions held (Chairman, President, etc.).
| Company | Executive | Title | Since | Education | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accenture | Pierre Nanterme | CEO | 2011 | ESSEC | Replaced William D. Green, who became executive chairman. |
| ACE Limited | Evan G. Greenberg | CEO and President | 2004 | New York University (attended); College of Insurance (attended) | Former COO of American International Group. |
| Aditya Birla Group | Kumar Birla | Chairman | 1995 | Part of the Birla family business house in India. | |
| Adobe Systems | Shantanu Narayen | President and CEO | 2007 | Osmania University, Bowling Green State University, Haas School of Business | Formerly with Apple Inc. |
| Agenus | Garo H. Armen | Founder, Chairman, CEO | 1994 | City University of New York | |
| American International Group | Bob Benmosche | CEO | 2009 | Alfred University | Former CEO of MetLife |
| Alcatel-Lucent | Ben Verwaayen | CEO | 2008 | Utrecht University | |
| Alcoa | Klaus Kleinfeld | Chairman and CEO | 2008 | Georg August University, University of Würzburg | Formerly with Siemens AG. |
| Altria Group | Michael Szymanczyk | Chairman and CEO | 2008 | Indiana University | |
| Amazon.com | Jeff Bezos | Founder, President, CEO, and Chairman | 1994 | Princeton University | |
| AMD | Rory Read | CEO and President | 2011 | Hartwick College | Formerly with Lenovo Group and IBM |
| American Express | Kenneth Chenault | Chairman and CEO | 2001 | Bowdoin College, Harvard Law School | Third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. |
| Amgen | Kevin W. Sharer | President and CEO | 2000 | U.S. Naval Academy, University of Pittsburgh | |
| AMR Corporation | Thomas W. Horton | CEO | 2011 | Baylor University, Southern Methodist University | Parent company for American Airlines. |
| Analog Devices | Jerald G Fishman | CEO and President | 1996 | Suffolk University Law School | Also on the boards of Cognex Corporation and Xilinx Inc |
| Anheuser-Busch | Dave Peacock | CEO | 2008 | University of Kansas, Washington University in St. Louis | Replaced August Busch IV after sale to InBev. |
| Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group | Anil Ambani | Chairman | 1983 | University of Mumbai, University of Pennsylvania | |
| AOL Inc. | Tim Armstrong | CEO and Chairman | 2009 | Connecticut College | Formerly with Google. |
| Apple Inc. | Tim Cook | CEO | 2011 | Auburn University, Fuqua School of Business | Assumed position from Steve Jobs |
| Arcelor Mittal | Lakshmi Niwas Mittal | Chairman and CEO | 2006 | St. Xavier's College, Calcutta | |
| Archer Daniels Midland | Patricia Woertz | President and CEO, chairman of the board | 2006 | Penn State University | |
| AT&T Inc. | Randall L. Stephenson | Chairman, CEO and President | 2007 | University of Central Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma | |
| BAE Systems Plc | Ian King | CEO | 2008 | Also director of Rotork | |
| Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria | Francisco González | Chairman and CEO | 2000 | Complutense University of Madrid | |
| Bank of America | Brian Moynihan | President and CEO | 2009 | Brown University, University of Notre Dame Law School | |
| Barclays | Antony Jenkins | Chairman | 2012 | Trinity Hall, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Harvard Business School | Serving in an executive capacity until a new chief executive is appointed |
| Berkshire Hathaway | Warren Buffett | Chairman and CEO | 1970 | University of Pennsylvania, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Columbia University | One of the world's wealthiest people, currently ranked third |
| Best Buy | Brian J. Dunn | CEO | 2009 | None | |
| Bharti Enterprises | Sunil Bharti Mittal | Founder, Chairman and Managing Director | 1985 | Punjab University | |
| Blackstone Group | Stephen A. Schwarzman | Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder | 1985 | Yale University, Harvard Business School | |
| BHP Billiton | Marius Kloppers | CEO | 2007 | University of Pretoria, INSEAD | |
| BMW | Norbert Reithofer | Chairman of the Board of Management | 2006 | Munich University of Applied Sciences, Technical University Munich | |
| Boeing | W. James McNerney, Jr. | Chairman, President and CEO | 2005 | Yale University, Harvard Business School | Formerly CEO of 3M |
| Boston Consulting Group | Hans-Paul Bürkner | President and CEO | 2003 | University of Bochum, Yale University, University of Oxford | |
| BP | Bob Dudley | CEO | 2010 | University of Illinois, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Southern Methodist University | |
| Burger King | John Chidsey | Executive Chairman and CEO | Baylor University | ||
| Campbell Soup Company | Douglas R. Conant | President and CEO | 2011 | Northwestern University | |
| Canonical Ltd. | Mark Shuttleworth | University of Cape Town | |||
| Capital One Financial | Richard Fairbank | Chairman and CEO | 1988 | Stanford University | |
| Cargill | Gregory R. Page | President and CEO | 2007 | University of North Dakota | |
| Caterpillar Inc. | Douglas R. Oberhelman | Chairman and CEO | 2010 | Millikin University | |
| Cavium Networks | Syed B. Ali | ||||
| CBS Corporation | Leslie Moonves | ||||
| Chesapeake Energy | Aubrey McClendon | Chairman, CEO and Co-founder | |||
| Chrysler | Sergio Marchionne | ||||
| Cisco Systems | John Chambers | ||||
| Citigroup | Michael Corbat | CEO | 2012 | Gannon University, Columbia University | |
| Coca-Cola | Muhtar Kent | Chairman and CEO | 2008 | Tarsus American College | |
| Cognizant Technology Solutions | Francisco D'Souza | ||||
| Comcast Corporation | Brian L. Roberts | ||||
| Computer Sciences Corporation | John Michael Lawrie | CEO | 2012 | ||
| Compuware Corporation | Peter Karmanos, Jr. | ||||
| ConAgra | Gary Rodkin | ||||
| Continental Airlines | Jeff Smisek | ||||
| Cameron | Sheldon Erikson | ||||
| Crown Worldwide Group | James E. Thompson | ||||
| CVS Caremark | Thomas Ryan | ||||
| Cypress Semiconductor | TJ Rodgers | ||||
| Daimler AG | Dieter Zetsche | ||||
| Dell Inc | Michael Dell | ||||
| Delta Air Lines | Richard Anderson | ||||
| Deutsche Bank | Josef Ackermann | ||||
| Deutsche Post World Net | Frank Appel | ||||
| Devon Energy | J. Larry Nichols | Chairman and CEO | 1980 | Princeton University; University of Michigan Law School | |
| DineEquity | Julia Stewart | Chairman and CEO | 2007 | San Diego State University | Parent of IHOP and Applebee's |
| Dish Network Corporation | Charlie Ergen | ||||
| DLF Universal | Kushal Pal Singh | ||||
| Domino's Pizza | David Brandon | ||||
| The Dow Chemical Company | Andrew Liveris | ||||
| DuPont | Ellen J. Kullman | ||||
| Dubai Holdings | Mohammed Al Gergawi | ||||
| Dunkin' Donuts | Jon L. Luther | ||||
| Eastman Kodak | Antonio M. Perez | ||||
| EADS | Louis Gallois | ||||
| eBay | John Donahoe | ||||
| Electronic Arts | John Riccitiello | ||||
| Environment Agency | Barbara Young | ||||
| Ericsson | Hans Vestberg | President and CEO | 2010 | Uppsala University | Chairman of the Swedish Handball Association |
| Escada | Dr. Bruno Sälzer | CEO | 2008 | University of Mannheim | Former CEO of Hugo Boss |
| Eurasia Group | Ian Bremmer | ||||
| Exxon Mobil | Rex Tillerson | ||||
| Mark Zuckerberg | |||||
| FedEx | Frederick W. Smith | ||||
| Free Software Foundation | Richard Stallman | ||||
| Fiat S.p.A. | Sergio Marchionne | ||||
| Fidelity Investments | Abigail Johnson | ||||
| Ford Motor Company | Alan Mulally | ||||
| Fox Learning Systems | Debra Fox | ||||
| Foxconn Electronics Inc | Terry Gou | ||||
| Fisher Investments | Kenneth L. Fisher | ||||
| FUBU | Daymond John | ||||
| Formula One Management | Bernie Ecclestone | ||||
| Gas Powered Games | Chris Taylor | ||||
| General Dynamics | Nicholas Chabraja | ||||
| General Electric | Jeffrey R. Immelt | ||||
| General Motors | Daniel Akerson | CEO | 2010 | U.S. Naval Academy, London School of Economics | Former chief executive of MCI Communications and Nextel Communications. |
| GfK AG | Klaus L. Wübbenhorst | ||||
| GlaxoSmithKline | Andrew Witty | ||||
| Goldman Sachs | Lloyd Blankfein | ||||
| Larry Page | |||||
| GMA Network | Felipe Gozon | ||||
| Haas Outdoors | Toxey Haas | Founder and CEO | 1986 | Mississippi State University | Parent company of Mossy Oak |
| Halliburton | David J. Lesar | ||||
| Harley Davidson | James Ziemer | ||||
| Harvard Pilgrim Health Care | Charlie Baker | ||||
| HCL Technologies | Vineet Nayar | ||||
| Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd. | Lee Shau Kee | ||||
| Hindalco | Kumar Mangalam Birla | ||||
| Home Depot | Frank Blake | ||||
| Honeywell | David M. Cote | ||||
| HP Hood LLC | John A. Kaneb | ||||
| HSBC | Stuart Gulliver | ||||
| IBM | Virginia M. Rometty | ||||
| IKEA | Mikael Ohlsson | ||||
| Inchcape plc | André Lacroix | ||||
| Infosys Technologies Limited | S.D. Shibulal | ||||
| Intel | Paul Otellini | CEO | 2005 | Also serves on the board of Google. | |
| ITC Limited | Y C Deveshwar | CEO and Chairman of the Board | 1996 | Has been with the company since 1968. | |
| J.Crew | Millard Drexler | CEO | 2003 | Former CEO of The Gap, also director at Apple Inc. | |
| Jefferies & Company | Richard B. Handler | Chairman, CEO, and President | 2001 | BA Economics University of Rochester, MBA Stanford University | Longest tenured CEO of a major Wall Street Firm |
| JP Morgan Chase | James Dimon | CEO and Chairman | 2004 | also on the board of the New York Federal Reserve | |
| Juniper Networks | Kevin Johnson | CEO | 2008 | formerly of Microsoft | |
| Kaplan, Inc. | Andrew Rosen | ||||
| Kingdom Holding Company | Al-Waleed bin Talal | ||||
| Koch Industries Inc. | Charles G. Koch | ||||
| Land Securities | Robert Noel | CEO | 2012 | Reading University | |
| Las Vegas Sands | Sheldon Adelson | ||||
| Lehman Brothers | Richard S. (Dick) Fuld, Jr. | ||||
| L.L. Bean | Christopher McCormick | ||||
| Larsen & Toubro Limited | A M Naik | ||||
| Lockheed Martin | Robert Stevens | ||||
| LPK | Jerry Kathman | ||||
| Macy's, Inc. | Terry J. Lundgren | ||||
| Manchester United | David Gill | ||||
| Marks and Spencer | Stuart Rose | ||||
| McDonald's | Jack Greenberg | ||||
| McKinsey | Ian Davis | ||||
| Mercedes-Benz | Dieter Zetsche | ||||
| Merrill Lynch | John Thain | ||||
| Mesa Air Group | Jonathan Ornstein | ||||
| MetLife | C. Robert Henrikson | ||||
| MGA Entertainment | Isaac Larian | ||||
| Microsoft | Steven Anthony Ballmer | ||||
| Mile High Comics | Chuck Rozanski | ||||
| Morgan Stanley | James P. Gorman | ||||
| Motorola | Greg Brown | ||||
| Mozilla | Mitchell Baker | ||||
| MySQL AB | Marten Mickos | ||||
| MySpace | Chris DeWolfe | ||||
| Nation Media Group | Wilfred Kiboro | CEO | 1993 | Replaced by Linus Gitahi in 2006. Still serves as the chairman of the NMG and Wilfay Investments Ltd. boards and serves on the boards of Standard Chartered Kenya and EABL as a non-executive director. | |
| National Amusements | Sumner Redstone | ||||
| NBCUniversal | Jeff Zucker | ||||
| Newlog | Yochanan Vollach | ||||
| News Corporation | Keith Rupert Murdoch | ||||
| New York Times Company | Janet L. Robinson | ||||
| NIIT | Vijay K. Thadani | ||||
| Nike | Mark Parker | Penn State University | |||
| Nissan | Carlos Ghosn | ||||
| Nokia | Stephen Elop | 2010 | Former Microsoft employee, he is the first non-Finn CEO at Nokia | ||
| Nortel | Mike S. Zafirovski | ||||
| Novartis | Daniel Vasella | ||||
| Nintendo | Satoru Iwata | ||||
| Office Depot | Steve Odland | ||||
| Oxford Sustainable Group | Hadley Barrett | ||||
| Oracle Corporation | Larry Ellison | ||||
| Orascom Telecom Holding | Naguib Sawiris | ||||
| Outback Steakhouse | Chris T. Sullivan | ||||
| iGATE Patni | Phaneesh Murthy | ||||
| PepsiCo | Indra Nooyi | ||||
| Pfizer | Henry McKinnell | ||||
| Pizza Hut | David C. Novak | ||||
| Playboy Enterprises | Christie Hefner | ||||
| Polo Ralph Lauren | Ralph Lauren | ||||
| Popular, Inc. | Richard Carrión | ||||
| Procter & Gamble | Robert A. McDonald | Chairman, President and CEO | 2009 | United States Military Academy, University of Utah(MBA) | McDonald was promoted from within after working for the company for 29 years. |
| Prudential Financial, Inc. | John Strangfeld | ||||
| Qantas Airways Limited | Alan Joyce | ||||
| Qwest Communications International | Richard Notebaert | ||||
| Reliance Industries Limited | Mukesh Ambani | ||||
| Renault | Carlos Ghosn | ||||
| Rite Aid Corporation | Mary Sammons | ||||
| Rocawear | Jay-Z | ||||
| Royal Ahold N.V. | John Rishton | ||||
| Royal Bank of Canada | Gordon Nixon | Queen's University | |||
| Royal Bank of Scotland | Stephen Hester | ||||
| Royal Dutch Shell | Peter Voser | ||||
| Ryanair | Michael O'Leary | ||||
| S. C. Johnson & Son | Herbert Fisk Johnson III | ||||
| SAAB Automobile AB | Jan-Åke Jonsson | ||||
| SandRidge Energy | Tom L. Ward | Chairman and CEO | 2006 | University of Oklahoma | former President, COO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy |
| Samsung | Kun-Hee Lee | ||||
| SAP AG | Bill McDermott | CEO | 2010 | Dowling College, Northwestern University | |
| SAS Institute | James Goodnight | ||||
| Sbarro | James J. Greco | CEO and President | 2012 | Georgetown University, University of Miami School of Law | Formerly with Le Duff America, Bruegger's, Fieldbrook Farms, and Natural Country Farms |
| Scottrade | Rodger O. Riney | ||||
| Seagate Technology | Steve Luczo | ||||
| Siemens A.G. | Peter Löscher | President and CEO | 2007 | Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Harvard University, Michigan State University | Formerly with General Electric and Merck |
| Simon Property Group | David Simon | ||||
| SingTel | Chua Sock Koong | ||||
| Sirius Satellite Radio | Mel Karmazin | ||||
| Sleep Country Canada | Steven Gunn | ||||
| SoftBank | Masayoshi Son | ||||
| Southwest Airlines | Gary C. Kelly | ||||
| Sonic Corporation | J. Clifford Hudson | Chairman and CEO | |||
| Sony Corporation | Kazuo Hirai | President and CEO | 2012 | ||
| Sony Computer Entertainment | Andrew House | President and CEO | 2011 | ||
| Starbucks Coffee Company | Howard Schultz | ||||
| Statoil | Helge Lund | ||||
| Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. | Walter Kwok | ||||
| Sun Microsystems | Jonathan I. Schwartz | ||||
| SunTrust Banks Inc. | James M. Wells, III | ||||
| Supervalu Inc. | Jeff Noddle | ||||
| Sulekha | Satya Prabhakar | ||||
| Swedbank | Jan Lidén | ||||
| Syntel Inc. | Bharat Desai | ||||
| Target Corporation | Gregg Steinhafel | Chairman, President, and CEO | 2008 | ||
| Tata Consultancy Services | N Chandrasekaran | ||||
| Tata Steel | B Muthuraman | ||||
| Telefónica | César Alierta | CEO and Chairman | 2000 | Columbia University | |
| Telmex | Carlos Slim Helú | ||||
| Telstra | David Thodey | ||||
| Temasek Holdings | Ho Ching | ||||
| Tesco | Philip Clarke | ||||
| Thomson Reuters | Tom Glocer | ||||
| Tim Hortons | Paul D. House | ||||
| Time Warner | Jeffrey L. Bewkes | ||||
| Tod's | Diego Della Valle | Managing Director | 1970 | University of Bologna | |
| TJX Companies, Inc. | Carol Meyrowitz | ||||
| Tracinda Corporation | Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian | ||||
| The Siegel Group Nevada, Inc | Stephen Siegel | ||||
| The Travelers Companies | Jay S. Fishman | ||||
| Trump Organization | Donald Trump | ||||
| Toyota | Hiroshi Okuda | ||||
| Toys for Bob | Paul Reiche III | ||||
| Toys "R" Us | Gerald L. Storch | ||||
| Tradeking | Donato A. Montanaro | ||||
| Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. | Philip I. Kent | ||||
| Dick Costolo | CEO | ||||
| UAL Corporation | Glenn F. Tilton | ||||
| UBS AG | Oswald Grübel | ||||
| U.S. Century Bank | Octavio Hernández | ||||
| US Airways | Doug Parker | ||||
| United Parcel Service | D. Scott Davis | ||||
| UGI Corp. | Lon R. Greenberg | ||||
| United States Steel Corp. | John P. Surma | ||||
| United Technologies | Louis R. Chênevert | ||||
| Valero Energy Corporation | William R. Klesse | ||||
| Verizon Communications | Lowell McAdam | Chairman and CEO | 2011 | Cornell University, University of San Diego | Former CEO of Verizon Wireless |
| Viacom | Philippe P. Dauman | ||||
| Viking Range | Fred Carl, Jr. | ||||
| Vodafone | Vittorio Colao | ||||
| Volkswagen | Martin Winterkorn | ||||
| Vulcan Inc. | Paul Allen | ||||
| The Walt Disney Company | Robert Iger | Chairman and CEO | |||
| Walgreen Company | Gregory Wasson | ||||
| Wal-Mart | Mike Duke | ||||
| Warner Bros. | Barry Meyer | ||||
| Washington Mutual | Kerry Killinger | ||||
| The Washington Post Company | Donald Graham | ||||
| Wells Fargo | John Stumpf | Chairman, President, and CEO | |||
| Whole Foods Market | John Mackey | ||||
| Wikia, Inc. | Craig Palmer | ||||
| Williams-Sonoma | Laura J. Alber | Director, President, and CEO | 2010 | University of Pennsylvania | replaced W. Howard Lester |
| Windstream Corporation | Jeffery Gardner | ||||
| Winn-Dixie | Peter Lynch | ||||
| Wipro Technologies Limited | T K Kurien | ||||
| World Wrestling Entertainment | Vincent K. McMahon | Founder, Chairman and CEO | 1980 Chairman 2009 CEO |
East Carolina University | Chairman of the Executive Committee |
| Yahoo! | Marissa Mayer | CEO | 2012 | Stanford university | Former spokesperson at Google |
| YG Entertainment | Yang Hyun Suk | ||||
| Yum! Brands, Inc. | David C. Novak | ||||
| Yves Saint Laurent | Paul Deneve | President | 2012 | Stanford | Former president at Lanvin |