10 Most-Liked CEOs

5. Lew Frankfort

Company: Coach

CEO Tenure: 1995 - present

Liked By: 90 percent

Lew Frankfort joined Coach in 1979, a period when the company was just a leather manufacturer, with $6 million in sales. Today, by the effective leadership of Frankfort the company has a turnover of more than $3.6 billion.

Frankfort is the one who worked over the pioneering concept of “affordable luxury” and is best known for adapting it to his business as a ‘unique-selling-proposition.’  

Before joining Coach, he served as the commissioner of the Agency for Child Development, New York. During those days he was known for his social commitment and he said he was far more interested in "the social movements of the 1960s, the civil rights movement, [and] the anti-war movement."

 He was born and brought up in the Bronx, where his father worked as a police officer.

4. Dennis M. Nally

Company: PricewaterhouseCoopers

CEO Tenure: 2002 - present

Liked By: 90 percent

Dennis M. Nally, the adorning the fourth position in the list, joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1974, starting in its Detroit office. In 2002, he got promoted to senior partner and chairman. At PwC, he is committed to challenge the stereotypes and preconceptions of the role of women.

PwC is a U. K. headquartered company, with its chairman’s office at the U. S. headquarters in New York.