#7 Jerry Kennelly, Riverbed Technology, 2014 approval rating: 93 Percent, Overall rank: 13

What employees think:

"Jerry is a fantastic CEO with tons of enthusiasm and energy. Very personable and cares greatly about his company and people. Couldn possibly be any nicer of a human being running a $1B company on this earth.” – Riverbed Technology sales (San Francisco)

In May 2002, Jerry M. Kennelly co-founded the Riverbed Technology and serves the role of CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Previously Kennelly was served as Chief Financial Officer, EVP, and secretary at Inktomi, Vice President-Corporate Finance at Sybase, Finance Director-U.S. Operations at Oracle, Controller-Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Hewlett-Packard, and an Advisor at Pelion Venture Partner. Currently Kennelly also serves as the Lead Independent Director at Nimble Storage.

#6 Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com, 2014 approval rating: 93 Percent, Overall rank: 12

What employees think:

"Marc is the best CEO in the business — different for sure — but the best." – Salesforce.com sales (San Francisco)

Marc Russell Benioff is the founder, CEO and chairman of Salesforce.com. Benioff launched Salesforce.com, a cloud computing company in March 1999 with the idea of creating an on-demand data management service that replaces traditional enterprise software technology. Benioff created the term ‘platform as a service’ and has expanded the companies service by making the customers enabled to create their own applications on company’s architecture or in the cloud.

In 2012, Benioff was nominated as a Business person of the year by Fortune, one of the Best CEOs in America by Forbes, one of the Best CEOs in the world by Barron’s and The Economist has granted him with an Innovation Award.

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