The two lists below represent the top-ranked CEOs from Small/Medium and Large Companies who were anonymously rated by employees of color on Comparably.com from May 23, 2017 to May 23, 2018. See below for employee comments and methodology.
Don’t forget to check out the rest of our 2018 Leadership Awards, including Best CEOs for Women, Best Leadership, Best Professional Development and Best Managers.
50 Best CEOs for Diversity (Large Companies, Ranked)
1. John Legere, T-Mobile (Bellevue, WA)
2. Brad Smith, Intuit (Mountain View, CA)
3. Brian Halligan, HubSpot (Cambridge, MA)
4. Craig Jelinek, Costco (Issaquah, WA)
5. Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA)
6. Sundar Pichai, Google (Mountain View, CA)
7. Satya Nadella, Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
8. Bert Bean, Insight Global (Atlanta, GA)
9. Marc Benioff, Salesforce (San Francisco, CA)
10. Ed Bastian, Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, GA)
11. Rami Elghandour, Nevro (Redwood City, CA)
12. Andreas Fibig, International Flavors & Fragrances (New York, NY)
13. Mark Hoplamazian, Hyatt (Chicago, IL)
14. Doug Mack, Fanatics (Jacksonville, FL)
15. Tim Cook, Apple (Cupertino, CA)
16. Daniel P. Amos, Aflac (Columbus, GA)
17. Pat Gelsinger, VMware (Palo Alto, CA)
18. John Van Siclen, Dynatrace (Waltham, MA)
19. R. Milton Johnson, HCA Holdings (Nashville, TN)
20. Jeff Bezos, Amazon (Seattle, WA)
21. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook (Menlo Park, CA)
22. William R. McDermott, SAP (Newtown Square, PA)
23. Alex Shootman, Workfront (Lehi, UT)
24. Eugene A. Hall, Gartner (Stamford, CT)
25. Shantanu Narayen, Adobe (San Jose, CA)
26. Spencer Rascoff, Zillow (Seattle, WA)
27. Mary T. Barra, General Motors (Detroit, MI)
28. Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber (San Francisco, CA)
29. George S. Barrett, Cardinal Health (Dublin, OH)
30. Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, NJ)
31. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co (New York, NY)
32. William R. Wagner, LogMeIn (Boston, MA)
33. Jay Farner, Quicken Loans (Detroit, MI)
34. Reed Hastings, Netflix (Los Gatos, CA)
35. Mark Parker, Nike (Beaverton, OR)
36. Adam Miller, Cornerstone OnDemand (Santa Monica, CA)
37. Richard D. Fairbank, Capital One (McLean, VA)
38. Steven Berglund, Trimble (Sunnyvale, CA)
39. Stephen Squeri, American Express (New York City, NY)
40. Julie Sweet, Accenture (New York, NY)
41. Devin Wenig, eBay (San Jose, CA)
42. Mikkel Svane, Zendesk (San Francisco, CA)
43. Patrick M. Byrne, Overstock.com (Midvale, UT)
44. Brad Jackson, Slalom Consulting (Seattle, WA)
45. Jack Dorsey, Square (San Francisco, CA)
46. Kevin Johnson, Starbucks (Seattle, WA)
47. Alan Trefler, Pegasystems (Cambridge, MA)
48. Elon Musk, SpaceX (Hawthorne, CA)
49. Horacio D. Rozanski, Booz Allen Hamilton (McLean, VA)
50. James M. Whitehurst, Red Hat (Raleigh, NC)
What employees anonymously said:
Salesforce: “Marc drives an amazing culture through the whole organization.”
Google: “The culture is very diverse, nerdy, and engineered for people like me.”
T-Mobile: “The most positive thing is that the company is VERY culturally diverse. And everyone accepts their roles and responsibilities. There’s a lot of pride in the work we do.”
Costco: “The most positive thing about the culture and environment is the diversity.”
Intuit: “Everyone brings their whole-self to work and we embrace people for their differences. We thrive with diversity!”
LinkedIn: “The leadership team encourages invention, inclusion, and education.”
Microsoft: “The most positive thing about the culture is the diversity and inclusion of people, thoughts and ideas. [Microsoft] puts empathy at the forefront.”
50 Best CEOs for Diversity (Small/Mid-Size Companies)
—TOP 10 RANKED, REMAINING 40 IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER—
1. Mahe Bayireddi, Phenom People (Ambler, PA)
2. Sameer Dholakia, SendGrid (Denver, CO)
3. Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (San Francisco, CA)
4. Giuseppe Incitti, Sitetracker (Palo Alto, CA)
5. Timothy Harris, Swift Navigation (San Francisco, CA)
6. Brewster Johnson, PeerStreet (El Segundo, CA)
7. David Cancel, Drift (Boston, MA)
8. Cynthia Barreda, NetCentrics Corporation (Herndon, VA)
9. Alan Rich, Chrome River Technologies (Los Angeles, CA)
10. Alexander Austin, Branch Metrics (Palo Alto, CA)
—ALPHABETICAL ORDER—
- Amrinder Arora, BizMerlin (Vienna, VA)
- Arthur Hitomi, Numecent (Irvine, CA)
- Brady Brim-DeForest, Citrusbyte (Encino, CA)
- Brett Patrontasch, Shyft Technologies (Seattle, WA)
- Brig Taylor, SlideBelts (El Dorado Hills, CA)
- Chris Ovitz and Reed Shaffner, Workpop (Santa Monica, CA)
- Christine Crane, BoldLeads (Chandler, AZ)
- Cooper Harris, Klickly (Santa Monica, CA)
- David Baszucki, Roblox (San Mateo, CA)
- David Petersen, BuildZoom (San Francisco, CA)
- Dennis R Mortensen, X.ai (New York, NY)
- Edward J. Buckley III, Peerfit (Tampa, FL)
- Gary Beasley, Roofstock (Oakland, CA)
- Gary Slack, XLA, Inc. (Vienna, VA)
- Gunnar Lovelace, Thrive Market (Marina Del Rey, CA)
- Howard Brown, RingDNA (Sherman Oaks, CA)
- Ian Jackson, Enshored (Long Beach, CA)
- J. R. Carter, Intersys Consulting (Austin, TX)
- Jeff Tench, New Signature (Washington, DC)
- Jennifer Tejada, PagerDuty (San Francisco, CA)
- Joe Furnari, HyreCar (Los Angeles, CA)
- Joel Milton, Baker (Denver, CO)
- Josh Payne, StackCommerce (Venice, CA)
- Karthik Sridharan, Kinnek (New York, NY)
- Nick Francis, Help Scout (Boston, MA)
- Nick Newsom, Ytel (Foothill Ranch, CA)
- Praful Saklani, Pramata (Brisbane, CA)
- Rami Sass, WhiteSource (New York, NY)
- Ryan Christoi, KRT Marketing (Lafayette, CA)
- Sam Shank, HotelTonight (San Francisco, CA)
- Satish Varma, Clorder (El Segundo, CA)
- Scott G. Wolfe Jr., zlien (New Orleans, LA)
- Scott Landis, VOX Network Solutions (Brisbane, CA)
- Sean Patrick Hopwood, Day Translations (New York, NY)
- Snehal Fulzele, Cloud Lending (San Mateo, CA)
- Stefan Batory, Booksy (Chicago, IL)
- Steve Elliott, AgileCraft (Austin, TX)
- Steve Kreynin, Forte Group (Chicago, IL)
- Timo Rein, Pipedrive (New York, NY)
- Tom Seery, RealSelf (Seattle, WA)
What employees anonymously said:
SendGrid: “Everyone is very friendly and inclusive. We can talk about the things that we’re passionate about to find similarities and celebrate them. It doesn’t matter what background, race, sex, or orientation, everyone is welcome. Inclusivity is the name of the game.”
Periscope Data: “The company is extremely focused on diversity and inclusion.”
Sitetracker: “There is a focus on hiring a diverse team (including management), which I fully support.”
Chrome River Technologies: “Company has a diverse culture, respectful of each and everyone.”
Methodology
Comparably’s Leadership Awards are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com between May 23, 2017 and May 23, 2018. There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required. Large companies are considered organizations with more than 500 employees; small/mid-size are businesses with less than 500 employees. Small/midsize companies had to have a minimum of 15 employees participating. Large companies had to have a minimum of 50 employees participating.
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