10 Most-Liked CEOs In Tech World


#8 Larry Ellison

Company: Oracle

Approval rating: 81 per cent

Global ranking: 8

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise software companies.

The company has got 108,000 global employees. It was World's Best Companies list by BusinessWeek, 2009 and America’s Top Companies, Forbes, 2009.

#7 Dan Hesse

Company: Sprint Nextel

Approval rating: 85 per cent

Last year: 77 per cent

Global ranking: 7

Daniel R. Hesse became CEO of Sprint Nextel on December 17, 2007. He is also a spokesperson and voice in Sprint’s “Simply Everything” commercial. He spent 23 years at AT&T where he started out as an intern. From March 2000 to June 2004 he was CEO and chairman of Terabeam Corporation. In June 2005 Hesse joined Sprint and oversaw the spinoff of its landline service.