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Kevin Johnson – A Passionate Servant Leader Pulkit Sharma || The CEO Magazine Kevin Johnson is a passionate American business leader and CEO of Starbucks, a Coffee Company. He began his career in the year 1986 as an engineer when he joined IBM. He also worked joined Microsoft in the worldwide sales and as the president of its department. He was a key person in Microsoft as he along with Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates used to determine the strategies in the company. He also served as a CEO of Juniper Networks from the year…

HERBERT DIESS, HERO OF THE VOLKSWAGEN FORCES Yashasvi Khushu || The CEO Magazine Earning a whopping €8,238,020 per annum, the Volkswagen CEO, Herbert Diess was born in Munich, Germany on October 24, 1958. He studied vehicle technology at Munich University of Applied Sciences from 1977 and then mechanical engineering at Munich Technical University from 1978 to 1983. After obtaining his degree in engineering, Diess was a scientific assistant at the Institute for Tool Machines and Plant Management of Munich Technical…

WARREN E. BUFFETT, THE BIG DADDY OF INVESTMENTS Yashasvi Khushu || The CEO Magazine 11 years old! Flabbergasting isn’t it, that’s exactly how old Warren E. Buffet, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, was when he first did his investment. With a net worth of $82 billion, this CEO is popularly known as an ace businessman, an investor, and a philanthropist. Born in august of 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska he gained his training from his father at a very young age. Stockbroker and father, Howard Buffet taught him the intricacies of being an…

EVERYTHING ABOUT THE STEEL TYCOON, LAKSHMI NIWAS MITTAL Yashasvi Khushu || The CEO Magazine From a moderately humble background to the world’s largest steelmaker, Lakshmi Narayan Mittal hails a history where basic amenities were scarce in the 60s and today ArcelorMittal sits at a capacity achievable production annually of approximately 118 million tonnes of crude steel, and some 209,000 employees across 60 countries, ArcelorMittal is the world’s leading steel and mining company. Born on 15 June 1950, Sadulpur, Rajasthan,…

SATYA NADELLA, 22 YEARS OF FORCE BEHIND MICROSOFT Yashasvi Khushu || The CEO Magazine Sitting at a net worth of $272 million, Satya Nadella has played the role the Microsoft CEO since 4th February 2014 graciously well. Satya didn’t just fit himself into one of the most influential brands, he also with it bought pride to Indians all over the world with his appointment. Born in Hyderabad, India, from where he did his schooling. He completed his graduation in electronics and communication from Manipal institute of technology…

DOUGLAS MCMILLON, YOUNGEST CEO IN THE HISTORY OF WAL-MART Yashasvi Khushu || The CEO Magazine Sitting at a net worth of $100 million is the youngest CEO in the history of Wal-Mart, C. Douglas McMillon, the President And Chief Executive Officer of the world's largest private workforce, with 2.3 million employees at the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart). ‘Saving people money so they can live better’, the mission that Wal-Mart believes in is being led under the management of Douglas strongly. Today, in his supervision, the…

Sundar Pichai – Brains Behind Google Products Pulkit Sharma || The CEO Magazine Nobody thought that an Indian boy from an average middle-class family will be the head of the world’s largest search engine. But Sundar Pichai made this possible when he became the CEO of Google in 2015 when Google went under a corporate restructuring after which Alphabet was launched as the parent company of Google by its founder Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Pichai joined Google as a product manager in 2004 and was involved in the creation of…

Mary Barra – One Company Career Pulkit Sharma || The CEO Magazine Mary T. Barra created history in 2014 when she became the first-ever women to lead an automobile company. Before she overtook Dan Akerson to be the next CEO of General Motors, she was serving the company as an executive vice president of supply chain, global product development and purchasing. Early life and Education On 24th December 1961 in Royal Oak, Michigan, Reino and Eva were blessed with a child and they named her Mary. Her grandfather, Viktor…

Mark Zukerberg – The Youngest Billionaire  Pulkit Sharma || The CEO Magazine The Modern internet entrepreneur from America who changed the way we socialize with each other is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. He is famous for creating and leading the most popular social networking site called Facebook. He is also the founder and a board member of a spacecraft development programme called Solar Sail. While studying at Harvard University, Zukerberg with his four friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris…

Akio Toyoda, Curating Toyota Motors’ Success Purnima Narang || The CEO Magazine Recorded as world’s first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year since 2012, Toyota Motors is headed by its family successor Akio Toyoda. Born on May 3, 1956, in Nagoya, Japan, Toyota Motor’s President and Member of Board of directors has a law background as he graduated from Keil University in April 1979. He pursued a master’s degree in business administration in 1982 from Babson College in the United…

Bob Iger- The Driving Force Pulkit Sharma || The CEO Magazine An American business leader, Robert Allen Iger also known as Bob Iger is the CEO of The Walt Disney Company. He is a kind of leader that makes innovation an important part of the corporate culture and strategies for growth. Iger has been leading the company like a fierce leader and, Walt Disney Animation Studios is flourishing under his excellent guidance. Under his leadership, the company has seen many changes and an increase in revenue across all divisions.…

Elon Musk - The Visionary  Pulkit Sharma || The CEO Magazine A famous American entrepreneur and business leader, Elon Musk founded multiple companies like Paypal (formerly known as X.com) in 1999, SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. After selling his company Zip2 to a division of Compaq computers he achieved the status of a multimillionaire. Company:  Tesla Age: 48 Net Worth: $20.8 billion Elon made history in 2012 when one of his companies SpaceX launched first-ever commercial vehicles into space.…

Jim Hackett, Driving Ford to its Success Purnima Narang || The CEO Magazine With an estimated Net Worth of $19.9 million as of September 2019, Jim Hackett is directing the growth of the American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan. The company was incorporated on June 16, 1903, selling automobiles and commercial vehicles under its brand. Besides automobiles, Ford also deals in luxury vehicles, commercial vehicles, automotive parts, pickup trucks and SUVs. Originally from Central Ohio, Ireland,…

Guiding Indian Oils’ Success: Sanjiv Singh Purnima Narang || The CEO Magazine Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) commonly known as Indian Oil is an Indian state government-owned Oil and Gas Company headquartered in New Delhi. India’s largest oil company, Indian Oil earned the highest net profit of INR 21,346 crores for the financial year 2017-18. Mr Sanjiv Singh is the chairman of the largest commercial enterprise and the highest-ranked Fortune ‘Global 500’ integrated energy major in India. Leading the 60-year-old…

Larry Page Biography- the man behind Google Puja Bhardwaj || The CEO Magazine The co-founder of Google and CEO of Alphabet, Larry Page was born with coding in his blood. He is an internet entrepreneur and computer scientist. At Stanford, Page teamed up with grad school buddy Sergey Brin and created a search engine Google in the year 1998, which listed results as per the popularity of the pages. Since founding, Google has grown as the world's most popular search engine. Larry's childhood was full of computers and…

Shashi Shanker- Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC Puja Bhardwaj || The CEO Magazine The Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC- India’s biggest oil and gas producing company, Shashi Shanker is an industry veteran. He holds 30 years of experience in diverse E&P activities. Earlier Shanker was the director of technical and field services in ONGC. At 1st October 2017, he took over the charge as CMD and replaced Dinesh K Sarraf. Shanker is 58 years old and has a nearly four-year term until March 2021. Under the…