Few people have had a bigger impact in the world of modern computing than Andy Jassy, the CEO and President of Amazon since July 2021. Jassy’s ascension to the top of Amazon was 24 years in the making. He began his career at the company in 1997 — just before the dot-com boom — helping what was then a small online bookseller to expand its catalogue to CDs…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Raised in Germany, Christian Klein has spent the majority of his life at SAP, one of the most influential software companies in the world. His story is one of starting on the ground floor and working up to the very top — he assumed the role of CEO in July 2021…
DataGrail’s new Chief Technology Officer, Cathy Polinsky, started programming in the first grade. This was back in the 1980s, and after her mother brought home an Apple II, Polinsky didn’t waste any time before learning her first computer language, Logo…
Arguably the most famous Chief Technology Officer to ever exist, Werner Vogels has spent the past 17 years transforming Amazon from an online book seller into one of the largest ecommerce empires on the globe. A native of the Netherlands, Vogels is celebrated as a top expert on ultra-scalable systems…
A long-time leader in the semiconductor industry, Gary Dickerson has sparked innovation during his lengthy tenure as boss of Applied Materials (AMAT), the world’s largest maker of equipment used to manufacture semiconductors. Dickerson began his illustrious career at AMAT when it acquired Varian Semiconductor Equipment for $4.9 billion cash…
