Mark Mason from Citigroup, Dhivya Suryadevara from Stripe and Laura Miele from Digital Arts. Illustration by Alexander Wells.
Our second annual record of fifty executives who’re prone to lead a few of America’s prime corporations.
By Diane Brady and Jena McGregor
With further reporting from Ethan Steinberg and Anthony Tellez
Of all of the expertise wars being fought throughout company America, few are as powerful because the battle to seek out a terrific CEO. With the accelerating tempo of change and elevated calls for on leaders, the metrics for fulfillment have change into extra sophisticated.
And but, as our second annual CEO Subsequent record reveals, the subsequent technology of contenders to guide America’s largest corporations is wanting robust. They’ve lived and led by means of booms and busts, monetary meltdowns and intervals of prosperity, transformative innovation and a pandemic that has shifted the best way we work and stay. They’re numerous, though diversifying the highest ranks of enterprise stays frustratingly sluggish. And so they embrace the human aspect of management as few of their predecessors ever needed to do.
We surveyed prime recruiters, government coaches, consultants and the Forbes newsroom to create this yr’s record of fifty leaders who look poised to step into large-company CEO jobs. Some are clear contenders inside their very own firm—a standard path in a yr when fewer than 19% of recent CEO hires have been exterior candidates, in line with Crist Kolder Associates, versus greater than 30% in 2019. Others are entrepreneurs who’re disrupting from inside, or are in C-suite roles that haven’t usually been a stepping stone to the CEO job. (To know why, learn our take a look at what abilities and backgrounds boards demand now.)
What unites the executives on this record is that their accomplishments and expertise are being observed by those that have constructed their careers and reputations on discovering and dealing with the CEOs of tomorrow. No one utilized to be on the record; for some, it might be a recognition they’d want to do with out. This record doesn’t seize the visionary founders or folks main small companies, nor does it acknowledge the leaders from our inaugural record who’ve solely gotten stronger.
We targeted on these deemed prone to lead giant U.S. corporations as a result of that function comes with a selected energy and duty. The behemoths of enterprise have the dimensions and attain to influence hundreds of thousands of lives, for good and for in poor health. How these leaders select to make their merchandise, deal with their folks and handle their operations can set a brand new gold normal for accountability, sustainability and success—or undermine belief, prosperity and the planet.
For the previous two years, many boards and chief executives have been targeted on steering their corporations by means of a worldwide pandemic and rising inflation, decreasing turnover within the nook workplace. However as these storms start to calm, the succession price is selecting up once more—making method for an additional technology. (See our unique take a look at new CEO succession knowledge right here.) Listed below are 50 contenders many consultants really feel are nicely positioned to navigate the tough waters forward.
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Carlos Abrams-Rivera
President, North America Zone: Kraft Heinz
Recruiters credit score Abrams-Rivera with rebuilding Kraft Heinz as a “digital first” firm, growing his odds of being subsequent in line to run the meals and beverage firm, the place he oversees its largest zone. Abrams-Rivera has needed to handle worth will increase, provide chain snarls and product recollects since coming to The Kraft Heinz Firm in 2020 from Campbell Soup Co., the place he ran its snacks and Pepperidge Farm companies. It was a return of types: The Puerto Rico native began his company profession at Kraft Meals, transferring on to senior roles within the world snacks enterprise that spun off to change into Mondelez Worldwide.
Stuart Aitken
Chief Service provider & Advertising Officer: Kroger
With obligations that vary from gross sales and pricing to e-commerce and digital merchandising, Aitken has a broad scope of obligations on the grocery big. Kroger has been helped by a pandemic-fueled rise in residence cooking, however leaders like Aitken have additionally needed to cope with the challenges of inflation and provide chain points. Aitken’s credentials embody prior CEO expertise at two knowledge science corporations, in addition to high-profile advertising and marketing roles at Michaels Shops and Safeway.
Raji Arasu
Chief Expertise Officer: Autodesk
Recruiters say Arasu is a robust strategic chief who has leveraged the CTO function to drive progress, innovation and productiveness positive aspects at Autodesk. In her earlier function as senior vice chairman of platform engineering at Intuit—an organization recruiters say is understood for constructing robust leaders—Arasu helped lead the software program firm’s platform technique in addition to its cloud transformation. She’s additionally held management roles at StubHub and eBay, in addition to a board seat at MediaAlpha.
Melissa Arnoldi
Chief Buyer Officer: AT&T Client
Arnoldi has held a number of key management roles since coming to AT&T from Accenture in 2008. That features being CEO of Vrio Corp, a digital leisure companies enterprise unit in Latin America that AT&T offered to Grupo Werthein final yr. Previous to that, she was president of know-how and community operations, overseeing a group of almost 200,000 workers. Now main a group that handles 180 million buyer interactions a yr, she’s considered as an distinctive operator, in addition to a robust advocate for advancing girls in STEM roles in her firm and past.
Ebony Beckwith
Chief Enterprise Officer & Chief of Employees to Marc Benioff: Salesforce
Chiefs of employees—a task borrowed from Washington that has proliferated in lots of companies—usually act as a proxy for the CEO in conferences, whereas requiring the belief of prime brass and relationships that span the corporate. Whereas Beckwith’s function, which incorporates main the Salesforce Basis, shouldn’t be the same old path to the nook workplace, it’s one some recruiters discover intriguing. Reporting to Benioff, she has a front-row seat on the enterprise. She serves on the board of administrators of Poshmark. And she or he seems to have the ambition: On her private weblog, #BossNotes, she writes that “I nonetheless really feel like I am simply getting began.”
Scott Belsky
Chief Product Officer & EVP, Inventive Cloud: Adobe
Belsky first joined Adobe in 2012 by means of the acquisition of Behance, a social media platform he cofounded in 2006. He left a number of years later to give attention to his work as an advisor and investor in corporations like Uber, Pinterest and Sweetgreen, rejoining Adobe in late 2017. Together with overseeing Adobe’s inventive services, he additionally runs Adobe’s world design group. Recruiters say he is a robust contender for a CEO job due to the scope of that function, in addition to his lengthy runway on the age of 42. His expertise as an entrepreneur and chief in a top-tier tech agency is one other plus.
Claire Bennett
World Chief Buyer Officer: Intercontinental Inns Group
One recruiter calls her a “hidden gem” due to a pedigree that features Pepsi and American Categorical—in addition to her management expertise at IHG through the journey {industry}’s pandemic-fueled downturn. Bennett is credited with understanding the companies enterprise whereas pondering like an operator. As the worldwide chief buyer officer, she is accountable for advertising and marketing, loyalty applications, partnerships and the whole visitor expertise—abilities that recruiters say might make her a main candidate to run a retail or different hospitality enterprise.
Justin Hen
CEO: Sempra Infrastructure
Hen has held a number of senior roles on the power holding firm, which distributes pure gasoline and electrical energy, together with constructing out infrastructure from pipelines to wind farms. Praised as a far-sighted dealmaker with a worldwide mindset and a want to make Sempra a number one innovator within the power transition, Hen represents a brand new technology of sustainability-minded leaders rising within the power sector.
Alexis Black Bjorlin
VP, Infrastructure {Hardware}: Meta
Bjorlin’s arrival at Meta late final yr despatched a robust sign that the corporate previously often called Fb was severe about constructing out the processing energy of its infrastructure to thrive in an immersive digital world. An engineer with a PhD in supplies science, Bjorlin beforehand led the optical programs division at Broadcom, reporting to CEO Hock Tan, and held a number of senior roles at Intel. One recruiter says that with Bjorlin’s mixture of IQ and EQ, he would put her “up in entrance of anybody.”
Alastair Borthwick
Chief Monetary Officer: Financial institution of America
Borthwick has labored throughout a number of key companies and features, giving him the type of silo-busting perspective {that a} CEO wants. He additionally has a longstanding dedication to variety and inclusion, by means of inside efforts on the financial institution and his work on the Posse Basis. With Financial institution of America’s present management prone to stay in place by means of the top of the last decade, the Scottish-born government is being eyed as somebody who may very well be interesting to a lot of opponents.
Tracey Brown
President, Retail Merchandise & Chief Buyer Officer: Walgreens
Brown got here to this newly-created function late final yr after being CEO of the American Diabetes Affiliation, the place she’s credited with main a digital transformation. She has additionally held management roles at corporations like Sam’s Membership, AMD, American Categorical and P&G, gaining expertise in areas from know-how and monetary companies to power and client items. That breadth makes Brown a fascinating candidate for roles in a number of completely different industries.
Christopher Calio
Chief Working Officer: Raytheon Applied sciences
Calio joined United Applied sciences in 2005 and spent the subsequent 15 years serving to to rework the conglomerate, culminating in a merger with Raytheon that accomplished because the world went into lockdown in April 2020. Having navigated robust headwinds a lot of his profession, Calio’s give attention to innovation and tradition is credited with serving to make the merger a hit.
Nanette Cocero
World President, Vaccines, Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group: Pfizer
Operating Pfizer’s vaccine enterprise by means of a worldwide pandemic is a task that will thrust any chief into the highlight. Cocero has not solely delivered, recruiters say, however gained geopolitical expertise that might be an asset in her subsequent job. She has thrived in a task that carries important operational calls for, danger administration abilities and crushing visibility. Together with carrying robust tutorial credentials—a PhD in pharmacology from the College of Pennsylvania and a Wharton MBA—the Puerto Rico-born Cocero is taken into account one of the vital influential Latinas in enterprise.
Theodore (Ted) Colbert III
President & CEO, Boeing Protection, Area & Safety: Boeing
Colbert was just lately tapped to take cost of Boeing’s protection unit, which has struggled amid high-profile value overruns and delays associated to an Air Drive One deal cast through the Trump Administration. However tackling huge challenges comes naturally to Colbert, who’s had profitable stints on the helm of Boeing World Companies and as Boeing’s CIO. A passionate supporter of Traditionally Black Schools and Universities (HBCUs), Colbert has championed applications to advance Black college students in STEM professions and simply gained the celebrated Black Engineer of the 12 months award. With profitable stints at each Citigroup and Ford, recruiters say Colbert might land a CEO function in a lot of industries.
Michael Conway
Group President, Worldwide and Channel Growth: Starbucks
When recruiters cite corporations that domesticate nice leaders, Starbucks is commonly on the record, with Conway because the “rock star” instance. Having excelled in quite a few key roles over the previous decade, Conway now leads operations in 80 markets whereas forging new channels and partnerships for the model. Praised as a robust multichannel operator with in depth world expertise, Conway’s identify repeatedly comes up when speaking with CEO recruiters.
Ana Corrales
Chief Working Officer – Google Client {Hardware}: Google
Who higher to carry Google’s client merchandise to life than the girl who constructed a profitable scrunchie enterprise in Costa Rica on the age of 15? She later leveraged these entrepreneurial chops to cofound a photo voltaic firm that was acquired in 2010. Corrales additionally held key operational roles at Nest and Cisco previous to becoming a member of Google and sponsors Google’s Latino Worker Useful resource Group. “Ana understands the place the world goes,” mentioned one recruiter, “and she or he is aware of the best way to get there.”
Chandra Dhandapani
CEO, World Office Options: CBRE
So long as digital transformation continues to be a coveted ability within the government suite, leaders like Dhandapani are prone to be in demand. Beforehand, she held the function of chief transformation officer inside the actual property agency, she held an identical function inside the monetary companies division of Capital One. At CBRE, Dhandapani additionally has a observe report that features overseeing human assets, advertising and marketing, provide chain operations, analysis and different key features.
Lisa Drake
VP, EV industrialization, Ford Mannequin e: Ford
When the boss is intent on transformation, it is good to be the place the motion is. As former COO of North America, Drake is aware of the best way to navigate the sticky challenges of provide chains and Ford’s many stakeholders, too. The Pittsburgh native, who additionally held positions in engineering and buying, has additionally been energetic in efforts to carry extra girls into the automotive sector.
Brian Edwards
SVP, Caterpillar Remanufacturing Division: Caterpillar
Edwards began his profession as a entrance line plant supervisor at Delphi, when it was a part of Normal Motors, earlier than transferring on to GE’s transportation enterprise after which Caterpillar’s rail subsidiary. Recognized for being a strategic supervisor, Edwards now leads the economic big’s remanufacturing division, which gives lower-cost substitute components remanufactured from Cat elements, providing him enterprise-wide expertise managing what’s seen because the centerpiece of the corporate’s sustainability technique.
Jim Esposito
World Co-Head of the Funding Banking Division: Goldman Sachs
As with all the large Wall Avenue banks, there’s a roster of expertise able to step into the highest job. Esposito is broadly considered as having the perfect mixture of abilities and general understanding of the enterprise ought to that job come open quickly. The New Jersey native and former varsity wrestler credit his father, a longtime senior government on Wall Avenue, with instilling in him and his two brothers a robust work ethic. (All three have ascended to senior roles in finance.) Nevertheless it’s his prowess in remodeling the enterprise to get forward of traits that’s caught the attention of recruiters in finance.
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Lidia Fonseca
Chief Digital & Expertise Officer: Pfizer
Along with overseeing Pfizer’s digital technique, Fonseca leads the corporate’s studying and growth, in addition to its push to enhance the way it creates and delivers merchandise. Pfizer has automated greater than 90% of all processes throughout the corporate underneath her watch. Fonseca’s priorities: enhancing well being outcomes, accelerating medication growth and fueling innovation akin to AI-powered predictive algorithms to trace and deal with illness.
John Furner
President & CEO, Walmart U.S.: Walmart
Having beforehand led Sam’s Membership with spectacular outcomes and sometimes pinch-hitting for CEO Doug McMillon on core points, Furner is each inch the corporate man. He grew up within the firm’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas and commenced working part-time at Walmart as a teen. He has since held a number of roles from a retailer supervisor and purchaser to move of promoting and merchandising for Walmart China. As chairman of the board of administrators for the Nationwide Retail Federation, he additionally understands the significance of being a number one {industry} voice.
Arpa Garay
Chief Business Officer: Moderna
Garay got here to Moderna from Merck, the place she was CMO of its Human Well being enterprise. She additionally is available in with in depth world expertise and management of key items akin to Merck’s U.S. vaccine enterprise. Her advertising and marketing experience might show vital as Moderna evolves from a analysis pioneer that created a COVID vaccine using messenger RNA to a industrial enterprise that goals to scale its mRNA analysis to revolutionize medication. If Garay can navigate the tough terrain of competitors, compliance and end-user prices, she may very well be nicely positioned for a CEO function in healthcare and past.
Joanna Geraghty
President & Chief Working Officer: JetBlue
Geraghty began her profession as a lawyer, coming to JetBlue to deal with litigation and regulatory points. From there, she went on to supervise expertise after which the client expertise earlier than moving into the COO job. By the airline’s “Fly Like A Lady” program, she’s pushed to spice up the variety of girls selecting to change into pilots and airline technicians. As one recruiter put it: “She runs operations with a watch to seeing new alternatives for the {industry}.”
Rick Gomez
Chief Meals & Beverage Officer: Goal
Gomez has held a number of key roles at Goal, from technique and e-commerce to advertising and marketing. Previous to becoming a member of the retailer, he labored at MillerCoors and PepsiCo. In singling out Gomez, one recruiter praises him for “brand-building prowess” and observe report of delivering outcomes. Wendy’s Chairman Nelson Peltz, who helped recruit Gomez to that board, highlighted his dedication to company social duty.
Jon Grey
President & Chief Working Officer: Blackstone
Some names on this record are true up-and-comers. Others are all however anointed. Blackstone’s Jon Grey, who’s broadly considered because the inheritor obvious to Stephen Schwarzman, falls into the latter class. The previous actual property chief, who joined Blackstone out of Wharton in 1992, is understood for profitable dealmaking such because the $26 billion acquisition of Hilton accommodations in 2007 and has been main day-to-day administration of the agency since 2018. Not like many clash-of-the-titans monetary companies hand-offs, the long-running succession at Blackstone has been famous for its lack of drama. The shock could be if Grey doesn’t ascend to the highest job.
Rejji Hayes
Chief Monetary Officer: CMS Vitality
Hayes usually reveals up on prime CFO lists as a strategic chief who’s adept at doing offers, managing a number of stakeholders and driving progress. Recruiters say he is proven management throughout earlier roles at publicly traded corporations akin to ITC and Exelon, in addition to earlier in his profession at corporations like Lazard and Banc of America Securities.
Amy Hood
EVP, Chief Monetary Officer: Microsoft
Hood is credited by recruiters with being a “business-minded” CFO who involves the job with common administration expertise and a robust observe report. Together with overseeing important acquisitions and investments in key progress areas, Hood has been on the forefront of Microsoft’s digital transformation. Equally vital, she has lengthy been considered as a associate to CEO Satya Nadella in bolstering the corporate’s tradition and dedication to initiatives round sustainability. Her 5 years on the board of 3M has additionally given her a broader view of the worldwide enterprise panorama.
Barbara Humpton
President & CEO, US: Siemens
As CEO of the economic big’s U.S. division, Humpton leads a $17 billion enterprise in its largest market. Humpton additionally chairs the corporate’s basis and serves on a number of nonprofit boards, together with internet hosting Siemens USA’s Optimistic Outlook podcast. She beforehand ran Siemens Authorities Applied sciences, and held senior roles at Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin.
Dan Janki
Chief Monetary Officer: Delta
Janki got here to Delta final yr from GE, the place he ran and repositioned the ability companies, and held key roles in finance, shared companies, power and investor relations. He is considered as a robust working and strategic chief who is aware of the best way to make investments for progress. As one observer put it: “a real CFO-plus who’s on his approach to being a CEO.”
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R. Alexandra Keith
CEO, P&G Magnificence: Procter & Gamble
The Geneva, Switzerland-based government leads the $14.8 billion Magnificence enterprise at P&G, an organization lengthy identified for rising expertise and the place the place she’s spent her total profession. Since taking the helm of the corporate’s Magnificence portfolio in 2017, Keith, often called Alex, has reversed seven years of decline with six straight years of top-line progress. A board member for Thermo Fisher Scientific, Keith additionally helps lead the corporate’s sustainability efforts.
Ram Krishnan
CEO Worldwide Drinks & Chief Business Officer: PepsiCo
Whether or not he is serving to remodel Cadillac or advertising and marketing at Frito Lay, Krishnan has introduced an information nerd’s mind and a thinker’s mindset to his work. On his weblog, Ramalytics, he units out to discover the intersection of “tech, knowledge, and humanity in a fast-moving world.” One recruiter calls him a “chief who actually thinks about management and the duty that brings.”
David Limp
SVP, Gadgets & Companies: Amazon
Limp is a number one drive in “ambient computing” – making a technology-embedded atmosphere during which gadgets like Alexa work together seamlessly with people and one another. He additionally oversees Amazon’s $10 billion Mission Kuiper to construct a community of satellites in low-earth orbit with the aim of delivering high-speed web worldwide, in addition to Zoox. Such formidable and transformative initiatives make Limp an thrilling CEO candidate, and one recruiter lauds Limp for his potential to execute and construct groups. The problem could also be wooing him away.
Jesse Levinson
Cofounder & Chief Expertise Officer: Zoox
Levinson was the quintessential CTO when he cofounded the autonomous automobile startup Zoox in 2014 – an excellent younger researcher who’d developed the algorithms for Stanford’s $1-million profitable entry within the 2007 DARPA City Problem. When his board ousted cofounder Tim Kentley-Klay as CEO, they employed Aicha Evans to run Zoox–and promote it to Amazon a yr later. Whereas Levinson continues to supervise the know-how, he has additionally developed a broader management presence. With dad Arthur Levinson chairing the Apple board and working Calico Labs, he little question will get good counsel.
Patrick Lockwood-Taylor
President, Bayer U.S. & President, Client Well being, North America: Bayer
Lockwood-Taylor got here to Bayer in 2018 to move up client well being in North America. Two years later, he was additionally put answerable for the U.S. operations for Bayer group, which added prescription drugs and crop science to his portfolio. The Procter & Gamble veteran, whose prior management roles embody being CEO of the Oneida Group, has helped place Bayer as a number one voice on matters like meals safety. One recruiter credit Lockwood-Taylor with having a “measurable influence on natural progress” in a historically slower-growth firm, in addition to for his deft dealing with of lawsuits that Bayer inherited as a part of its Monsanto acquisition.
Maria Martinez
Chief Working Officer: Cisco
With a resume that reads like a “who’s who” of Large Tech, Martinez has made stops at Cisco, Salesforce, Microsoft and AT&T’s Bell Labs—however she’s additionally been CEO of a small startup. She now leads operations at Cisco, the place her obligations embody oversight for technique, buyer expertise, provide chain, IT, companies and the corporate’s “transformation” efforts. She was beforehand Cisco’s chief buyer expertise officer.
Mark Mason
Chief Monetary Officer: Citigroup
Mason has performed a vital function in serving to Citi ship robust outcomes amid unstable markets. He was additionally a key determine in driving Citi’s $1 billion initiative to shut the racial wealth hole. Together with having valued expertise in wealth administration and varied operational roles, Recruiters say Mason’s expertise in technique roles at Lucent and Marakon Associates have given him a broader mixture of abilities and expertise than many friends who come up by means of the finance operate.
Gina Mastantuono
Chief Monetary Officer: ServiceNow
The workflow software program agency’s explosive progress means its executives are intently watched candidates for recruiters trying to discover executives who’ve managed that type of growth at an organization that is outlined a brand new sector. A board member at software program platforms Roblox and Gong, Mastantuono is what one recruiter calls a “CFO-plus,” an government who shouldn’t be solely a prime performer within the finance operate however who thinks like a strategic operational chief throughout the agency.
Laura Miele
Chief Working Officer: EA
Along with being one of many top-ranking girls within the gaming {industry}, Miele is among the few executives to straddle each a inventive and an operational function. With giants like Amazon and Netflix transferring into the area, her expertise makes her a frightening competitor and an government others need to recruit. As somebody who’s keen about video games herself, Miele introduced a renewed give attention to gamers and artistic expertise.
John Murphy
EVP & Chief Monetary Officer: Coca-Cola
In July, Coca-Cola introduced its president and chief working officer could be retiring in February, and that Murphy, the beverage big’s CFO, could be including the title of president Oct. 1. That seems to be an indication that Murphy, 60, an Irishman whose world background contains management stints working the previous Asia Pacific group and components of the corporate’s Latin American unit, may very well be in line to succeed present CEO James Quincey.
Heidi O’Neill
President, Client & Market: Nike
O’Neill leads Nike’s direct client enterprise, which incorporates all shops, e-commerce and app gross sales globally, in addition to its market companions group and the Nike model in 4 main world geographies. Over her 24 years at Nike, she constructed its direct to client enterprise, in addition to its girls’s division, now a multibillion greenback enterprise. A marketer by background, she now leads a considerable chunk of Nike’s enterprise, making her a probable guess, recruiters say, to guide a serious model.
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Michelle Peluso
Chief Buyer Officer, CVS Well being & Co-President, CVS Pharmacy: CVS
Peluso’s industry-hopping profession spans well being care and pharmacy (her present submit), know-how (IBM), monetary companies (Citigroup) and trend (Gilt). She’s even been a CEO herself, main a turnaround at Travelocity within the mid-2000s when she was in her 30s. However the thread that runs by means of all of it is a give attention to advertising and marketing, digital gross sales and digital transformation, abilities recruiters say are in rising demand within the CEO’s job.
Allison Peterson
Chief Buyer Officer: Greatest Purchase
Peterson is credited with launching revolutionary applications which have enhanced loyalty, helped double on-line income and saved opponents like Amazon at bay. Recruiters imagine she’s in a robust pole place to be the subsequent CEO, however level out that her expertise in omnichannel and model technique has worth far past the realm of retail.
Sundar Raman
CEO, Cloth & Residence Care: Procter & Gamble
Raman heads up P&G’s largest enterprise, representing about one-third of gross sales and iconic manufacturers from Tide and Downey to Febreze and Swiffer. Recruiters level to his robust observe report for innovation, having helped launch merchandise like Tide Pods. “He’s a humble, genuine and decisive chief who understands how to achieve the complicated matrix of P&G,” says one, who additionally credit Raman with bringing extra focus to inclusion and variety initiatives. His function can be considered as a stepping stone to the highest job, as his predecessor Shailesh Jejurikaris is now COO.
Sameer Samat
VP, Product Administration: Google
Samat, who oversees the Android and Google Play merchandise, got here to Google with the vital credentials of getting two profitable startups underneath his belt. As head of the world’s greatest app retailer, Samat can be navigating the compromises wanted to deal with considerations from builders and antitrust regulators. He additionally introduced an initiative to create a extra racially inclusive digicam for Google’s Pixel gadgets. Such experiences are vital for leaders in a world of rising scrutiny over the ability of Large Tech, which can clarify why one recruiter says he is usually the best choice for e-commerce corporations looking for a brand new CEO.
Dhivya Suryadevara
Chief Monetary Officer: Stripe
Because the CFO at Stripe, Suryadevara has led the corporate’s funds by means of a interval of surging progress, expertise that may make her enticing to different boards. Mixed together with her exerience as CFO of Normal Motors, Suryadevara has the type of resume the place she “wins each award underneath the solar; she’s an absolute rock star,” mentioned one government search chief. As a prime government at an organization that is nonetheless founder-led, she’s on the prime of many recruiters’ radar screens.
Government Vice President, World Buyer Success & Technique: Salesforce
Seen as one of many prime executives on co-CEO Marc Benioff’s group, Taychakhoonavudh is “universally admired” and the kind of chief others readily comply with, one recruiter mentioned. Earlier than her present function main the client relationship, she led the group that developed methods for Salesforce’s buyer in several industries. She joined Salesforce from Oracle in 2009, and may very well be prepared for her subsequent transfer.
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Beth Whited
EVP – Sustainability & Technique: Union Pacific
When Union Pacific CEO Lance Fritz introduced in February that Whited would oversee the push to change into the nation’s No. 1 provide chain logistics supplier and assist the railroad attain internet zero by 2050—whereas persevering with to supervise human assets—he praised her as “the proper individual to guide Union Pacific in these vital areas.” Certainly, Whited has a observe report of success in a number of roles throughout the corporate, from working the distribution companies enterprise and advertising and marketing to enhancing talen across the HR operate. One recruiter echoes her boss’s sentiments, arguing that “few folks know that firm or the {industry} higher than Beth.”
Ather Williams III
Head of Technique, Digital, and Innovation: Wells Fargo
Williams has labored at three prime monetary companies corporations—Wells Fargo, Financial institution of America and JPMorgan—and sits on the intersection of technique and digital change administration that is pivotal to banks’ operations as we speak. Recruiters say he reworked Wells Fargo’s digitization efforts whereas managing to remain above the fray throughout latest scandals, which might set him as much as lead a regional financial institution.
Tamar Yehoshua
Chief Product Officer: Slack
One recruiter referred to as Yehoshua “a little bit of a dream combine for tech corporations,” as a chief product officer with an engineering background who additionally manages product—an more and more widespread path within the tech world for up-and-coming CEOs. She joined Slack in 2019 after working a few of Google’s most vital product classes, together with search, id and privateness.
