10 Best Tech CEOs Of All Time
#7 John W. Thompson
Company: Symantec
Country: United States
Tenure: 1999 - 2009
John W. Thompson was vice-president at IBM, and had 28 years of career at the company, before joining Symantec Corporation as Chief Executive Officer. Thompson transformed Symantec from a consumer software publisher to the leader in internet security, data protection and storage management. Under his leadership, the company’s revenue grew tenfold from $600 million to $6 billion.
#6 Eric E. Schmidt
Company: Google
Country: Untied States
Tenure: 2001 – 2011
Schmidt joined Google's board of directors as chairman in March 2001 and became the company's CEO in August 2001. At Google, Schmidt shared responsibility for Google's daily operations with founders Page and Brin, and the three ran Google as a triumvirate. Schmidt had legal responsibilities typically assigned to the CEO of a public company and focused on the management of the vice presidents and the sales organization.
According to Google's website, Schmidt also focused on "building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while the product development cycle times are kept to a minimum."
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