Martha Poulter, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Royal Caribbean since January 2018, has a lot on her plate. As the second largest cruise line operator in the world, Royal Caribbean yields annual revenues of $9.5 billion among its four brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Azamara Club Cruises, and Silversea Cruises…
Looking back, it’s easy to see how self-made billionaire Marc Benioff has become one of the most influential businessmen in the world. In 1999, Benioff co-founded a startup called Salesforce in his San Francisco apartment. Initially using a closet as the server room, the company became a pioneer in hosting software online, rather than following the traditional model of installing software in clients’ computer systems…
Billionaire CEO Jensen Huang has come a long way since his days of working the graveyard shift at a Denny’s restaurant. It started in 1993. On Huang’s 30th birthday, the young entrepreneur made history when he co-founded Nvidia. At first, the company merely produced graphics cards for PCs…
Dhivya Suryadevara, the CFO for online payments processor Stripe, has never been one to back down from adversity. In 2018, the Indian-born executive made history when she became the first female CFO of General Motors, the largest automobile manufacturer in the U.S. Suryadevara excelled at her position, overseeing the company’s global financial operations…
While Costco CEO W. Craig Jelinek has been with the warehouse chain since almost the beginning, his retail roots go even deeper. It started with his father. Jelinek was raised in the high-desert shadows of Edwards Air Force Base, where his father helped build B-70 bombers at the height of the cold war…
When Fabrizio Freda became CEO of the Estée Lauder luxury empire in 2009, he knew that it was going to be an uphill battle. In addition to being an outsider, Freda was taking the reins of an organization in troubled waters. After years of being run by family members, the beauty company had too many brands, too many people, and not enough cohesion…
Considering that internal promotions to the role of CFO at Fortune 500 companies are not uncommon, it was not hard to fathom why Caroline Litchfield was chosen to take over the most senior financial position in her company last year. Litchfield, who received her Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Leicester, has been with healthcare giant Merck her entire professional career…
As co-founder and chief technical officer of the social media company Snapchat, Bobby Murphy is one of Silicon Valley’s great success stories. Despite his efforts to maintain a low-profile, which includes only giving a handful of interviews over the years, the 34-year-old software engineer is no stranger to the tech industry’s limelight…
With over 20 years of dynamic experience leading organizations through digital transformation, Arthur “Art” Hu is the model of the modern IT executive – as much a psychologist as he is a technologist. Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Lenovo’s Solutions and Services Group (SSG)…
From an early age, Vlad Shmunis had a passion for technology and solving problems. Little did he know that this combination would lead to becoming one of the most successful CEOs in the world. In the 1970s, Shmunis and his family immigrated from Ukraine to the U.S., where the budding software engineer eventually earned a master’s degree in computer science…
