Paul Daugherty is the Chief Technology Officer for Accenture, a Fortune Global 500 company and one of the largest consulting firms in the world. He is also a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee. As CTO, Daugherty spins many plates. He oversees all aspects of the company’s technology strategy from top to bottom…
Ali Ghodsi, the man behind the phenomenal success of Databricks, is not your typical Silicon Valley success story. Ghodsi was born in Iran during the country’s revolution and later his family fled to Sweden to escape persecution during the Iran-Iraq War…
For more than two decades, Bogdan Dumitru has been a driving force behind one of the largest names in the antivirus software industry: Bitdefender. The company, which is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, offers a range of products and services in the cybersecurity space. Its flagship product is Bitdefender Antivirus…
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…
