For nearly 40 years, CEO Jack Little has been one of the main figures behind the phenomenal success of MathWorks, a highly influential tech company that specializes in mathematical computing software. Along with Cleve Moler and Steve Bangert, Little launched MathWorks in 1984 from a rented cabin…
Key Executives is pleased to announce The Top 25 Executives of Austin for 2023. Austin is known as the “Live Music Capital of the World,” but that’s just the beginning. Its strong economy is driven by an educated, diverse, and growing talent pool…
For Andrew Anagnost, CEO of ubiquitous design and engineering software company Autodesk, it’s been a long journey with an unlikely beginning. Anagnost grew up in Van Nuys, California, and initially dropped out of high school. But with the help of his family, he ended up reenrolling, graduating, and studying mechanical engineering at California State University, Northridge…
Roberto Azevêdo had a big year in 2020. First, the career diplomat surprised many when he announced his intentions to step down as the World Trade Organization’s sixth Director-General, a year ahead of schedule. A few months later, any confusion regarding this bold move was soon replaced with collective comprehension…
For more than a decade, Michael Flannery has led the evolution and growth of United Rentals. By all measures, the provider of rental equipment is a juggernaut. In 2014, United Rentals joined the S&P 500 and the Fortune 500. From 2009-2022, it doubled its employee count and now has more than 22,000 workers…
In a time when business executives increasingly feel like they have to change jobs to advance their career, Joe Atkinson is truly unique. For nearly 30 years, Atkinson has not only been working for the same company, he’s been thriving — as evinced by the fact that he’s now considered to be one of PwC’s most influential decision makers…
Widely considered to be one of the most influential thought leaders in the world of business and technology, George Colony is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Forrester Research. In 1983, Colony founded Forrester in his basement. At the time, he was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts…
Originally from England, Cal Henderson is best known as the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Slack, the popular messaging app company that was acquired by Salesforce in 2021 for $27.7 billion. A software engineer at heart, Henderson is now removed from daily coding duties, but he remains a vital figure in Slack’s ongoing success…
Key Executives is pleased to announce The Top 25 Executives of Houston for 2023. Houston is a major corporate center. While the region is known globally for its role in the aerospace and energy industries, its economy is strengthened by several other sectors, including medicine, finance, agriculture, transportation, and trade…
An entrepreneur since his early youth, Martín Migoya is a Co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Globant, the first software development company from Latin America to go public with an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The seed of Migoya’s success story started germinating in the 1990s, shortly after he graduated from college…
