The winners of Comparably’s 3rdAnnual Best CEOs Awards received the highest ratings by employees who provided anonymous feedback about their chief executive officers on Comparably.com within the past year. The award winners are segmented into two ranked lists: Top 50 CEOs of Large companies (more than 500 employees) and Top 50 CEOs of Small/Mid-Size companies (less than 500 employees). To view previous Best CEOs lists, click here.
Top 50 Best CEOs of Large Companies (Ranked)
1. Eric Yuan, Zoom Video Communications (San Jose, CA)
2. Brian Halligan, HubSpot (Cambridge, MA)
3. W. Craig Jellinek, Costco (Issaquah, WA)
4. Satya Nadella, Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
5. John Legere, T-Mobile (Bellevue, WA)
6. Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA)
7. Charles Butt, H E B (San Antonio, TX)
8. Kevin Lobo, Stryker (Kalamazoo, MI)
9. Bert Bean, Insight Global (Atlanta, GA)
10. Lynn Jurich, Sunrun (San Francisco, CA)
11. Sasan Goodarzi, Intuit (Mountain View, CA)
12. Mark Mader, Smartsheet (Bellevue, WA)
13. Sundar Pichai, Google (Mountain View, CA)
14. Ryan Smith, Qualtrics (Provo, UT)
15. Craig Menear, The Home Depot (Atlanta, GA)
16. Alex Shootman, Workfront (Lehi, UT)
17. Carlos Rodriguez, ADP (Roseland, NJ)
18. Corie Barry, Best Buy (Richfield, MN)
19. Jay Kreps, Confluent (Mountain View, CA)
20. John Van Siclen, Dynatrace (Waltham, MA)
21. Mahe Bayireddi, Phenom People (Ambler, PA)
22. Bryce Maddock, TaskUs (Santa Monica, CA)
23. Daniel Dines, UiPath (New York, NY)
24. Arne Sorenson, Marriott (Bethesda, MD)
25. Mihir Shukla, Automation Anywhere (San Jose, CA)
26. William Wagner, LogMeIn (Boston, MA)
27. Albert DiLeonardo, Vector Marketing (Olean, NY)
28. Doug Mack, Fanatics (Jacksonville, FL)
29. Steve Bilt, Smile Brands (Irvine, CA)
30. Colin Doherty, Fuze (Boston, MA)
31. Robert Quattrocchi, Northside Hospital (Atlanta, GA)
32. Shoaib Makani, KeepTruckin (San Francisco, CA)
33. Jim Loree, Stanley Black & Decker (New Britain, CT)
34. Logan Green, Lyft (San Francisco, CA)
35. Sam Gilliland, Cherwell Software (Colorado Springs, CO)
36. Dan Curtis, BNSF Logistics (Springdale, AR)
37. Kelly Caruso, Shipt (Birmingham, AL)
38. Mark Marron, ePlus Inc. (Herndon, VA)
39. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook (Menlo Park, CA)
40. Patrick Pacious, Choice Hotels (Rockville, MD)
41. Jeff Bezos, Amazon (Seattle, WA)
42. Ed Bastian, Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, GA)
43. Tracey Fellows, Realtor.com (Santa Clara, CA)
44. Harley Lippman, Genesis10 (New York City, NY)
45. Brian Niccol, Chipotle (Newport Beach, CA)
46. John Beatty, Clover Network (Sunnyvale, CA)
47. Tim Cook, Apple (Cupertino, CA)
48. Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, MD)
49. Mark Clemens, Golden Hippo (Woodland Hills, CA)
50. Jonathan Neman, Sweetgreen (Culver City, CA)
Top 50 Best CEOs of Small/Mid-Size Companies (Ranked)
1. Mark Faggiano, TaxJar (Woburn, MA)
2. Sam Malouf, Malouf (Logan, UT)
3. Robert Sadow, Scoop Technologies (San Francisco, CA)
4. Brandon Rodman, Weave HQ (Lehi, UT)
5. Steve Carlson, ForwardLine Financial (Woodland Hills, CA)
6. Alexander Austin, Branch Metrics (Redwood City, CA)
7. Mike Hansen, Alkami Technology (Plano, TX)
8. Jason Purcell, Salsify (Boston, MA)
9. Peter McKay, Snyk (Boston, MA)
10. Douglas Winter, Seismic (San Diego, CA)
11. David Cancel, Drift, (Boston, MA)
12. Kyle Porter, SalesLoft (Atlanta, GA)
13. Karl Mehta, EdCast (Mountain View, CA)
14. Vineet Jain, Egnyte (Mountain View, CA)
15. Sandy Gibson, Better Place Forests (San Francisco, CA)
16. Michael Rowell, Assurance (Bellevue, WA)
17. Howard Brown, RingDNA (Sherman Oaks, CA)
18. Brady Brim-DeForest, Theorem (Encino, CA)
19. Chris Hulls, Life360 (San Francisco, CA)
20. Greg Besner, CultureIQ (New York City, NY)
21. John Wise, InvestCloud (West Hollywood, CA)
22. Dustin Moskovitz, Asana (San Francisco, CA)
23. Didier Elzinga, Culture Amp (San Francisco, CA)
24. Ryan Malone, SmartBug Media (Newport Beach, CA)
25. Daniel Chait, Greenhouse Software (New York City, NY)
26. Gleb Polyakov, Nylas (San Francisco, CA)
27. Mitch Thrower, Events.com (La Jolla, CA)
28. Erik Huberman, Hawke Media (Los Angeles, CA)
29. David Johnson, Vervent (San Diego, CA)
30. Giuseppe Incitti, Sitetracker (Palo Alto, CA)
31. Alex Goode, GoSite (San Diego, CA)
32. Flint Brenton, CollabNet (Alpharetta, GA)
33. Kyle Sherman, Flowhub (Denver, CO)
34. Brian Hartnack, Archer Education (Los Angeles, CA)
35. Dave Evans, Fictiv (San Francisco, CA)
36. Amir Movafaghi, Mixpanel (San Francisco, CA)
37. Elizabeth Cholawsky, HG Insights (Santa Barbara, CA)
38. Joel Hyatt, Globality (Menlo Park, CA)
39. Daniel Yanisse, Checkr (San Francisco, CA)
40. Katherine Power, Who What Wear (Los Angeles, CA)
41. Stephane Donze, AODocs (Atlanta, GA)
42. John Benson, Verisys Corporation (South Jordan, UT)
43. Bob Young, Lulu Press (Morrisville, NC)
44. Simon Anderson, Mission (El Segundo, CA)
45. Ashvin Kumar, Tophatter (San Francisco, CA)
46. Joanna McFarland, HopSkipDrive (Los Angeles, CA)
47. John Crum, Seaman Corporation (Wooster, OH)
48. Lidia Yan, Next Trucking (El Segundo, CA)
49. Gil Elbaz, Factual (Los Angeles, CA)
50. Reid Lappin, Vokal (Chicago, IL)
Methodology
- Comparably Awards are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com betweenNovember 19, 2018 and November 19, 2019. There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required.
- To qualify, Large companies (more than 500 employees) must have a minimum of 75 employee participants and Small/Mid-Size companies (fewer than 500 employees) must have a minimum of 25 employee participants.
- Winners were determined based on CEO ratings. The answer to each question was given a numerical score and then compared to companies of similar size across the U.S. Additional weight was given to scores at companies with more participation from their employee base.
- The final data set was compiled from nearly 10 million ratings across 50,000 U.S. companies on Comparably.com. Contact Comparably for employee commentary, images, company descriptions, or to interview specific winners.
About Comparably
Comparably is a workplace culture and compensation monitoring site with a mission to provide more transparent and rewarding workplaces.Employees can access salary data and rate their companies, CEOs, and work experiences through the lens of specific demographics including gender, ethnicity, age, tenure, industry, location, and education. With nearly 10 million ratings from employees at over 50,000 U.S. companies,Comparably has become one of the most used SaaS solutions for employer branding and trusted third party sites for salary and workplace culture data. For more information on Comparably, go to www.comparably.com. For highly-cited workplace culture and compensation studies, including Comparably’s annual Workplace Culture Awards, log onto www.comparably.com/blog.
