Best CEOs for Diversity 2023

The 6th annual Best CEOs for Diversity list from Comparably (now a ZoomInfo company) recognizes the top-rated CEOs according to current employees of color (non-Caucasian). Over the past year, tens of thousands of large and small company CEOs were anonymously rated, based on how confident employees feel about their chief executives. 

Given the recent job market stats – and that when all workers were asked what their CEO needs to improve upon the most, the No. 1 answer among employees of color surveyed on Comparably.com was “Vision/Strategy” – the list of Best CEOs according to employees of color is even more relevant.

Segmented by CEOs of large and SMB companies, according to employees of color, the Top 25 in each size bucket is listed below. This is the first time the list includes 7 CEOs of color in the Top 10 and nearly half in the Top 25.

The complete list of winners is available here. Detailed methodology is outlined below the list. 

Best CEOs of Large Companies (according to employees of color)

RANK	CEO NAME	COMPANY	HQ CITY	STATE
1	Arvind Krishna	IBM	Armonk	NY
2	Maria Black	ADP	Roseland	NJ
3	Vladimir Shmunis	RingCentral	Belmont	CA
4	Aneel Bhusri & Carl Eschenbach	Workday	Pleasanton	CA
5	Dan Rosensweig	Chegg	Santa Clara	CA
6	Amit Walia	Informatica	Redwood City	CA
7	Yamini Rangan	HubSpot	Cambridge	MA
8	Dara Khosrowshahi	Uber	San Francisco	CA
9	Kumsal Bayazit	Elsevier	New York	NY
10	Satya Nadella	Microsoft	Redmond	WA
11	Michael Weening	Calix	San Jose	CA
12	Chris Caldwell	Concentrix	Newark	CA
13	Robert G. Painter	Trimble	Westminster	CO
14	Hugh Jones	RX	Norwalk	CT
15	Eugene Goland	DataArt	New York	NY
16	Bryce Maddock	TaskUs	New Braunfels	TX
17	Martin Migoya	Globant	San Francisco	CA
18	Daniel Julien	Teleperformance	Salt Lake City	UT
19	Shoaib Makani	Motive	California City	CA
20	Sunil Mittal	Movate	Plano	TX
21	Amy Zupon	Vertafore	Denver	CO
22	Venu Raghavan	Encora	Scottsdale	AZ
23	John T. Stankey	AT&T	Dallas	TX
24	Shantanu Narayen	Adobe	San Jose	CA
25	David Khuat Duy	Ivalua	Redwood City	CA

Best CEOs of Small/Mid-Size Companies (according to employees of color)

RANK	CEO NAME	COMPANY	HQ CITY	STATE
1	Nandan Banerjee	Cogent Infotech Corp	Pittsburgh	PA
2	Sean Barker	cloudEQ	Novi	MI
3	Clint Sharp	Cribl	San Francisco	CA
4	Wei Deng	Clipboard Health	Walnut	CA
5	Martin Mao	Chronosphere	New York	NY
6	Rishikkes Pawar	Digitalzone	New York	NY
7	Chuck Loewen	Online Business Systems	Minneapolis	MN
8	Neha Sampat	Contentstack	San Francisco	CA
9	Shane Lamb	CyberCoders	Irvine	CA
10	Prashant Sahoo	EATEAM, INC.	Edison	NJ
11	Gary Noke	Namely	New York	NY
12	Jeffrey Shoreman	Therapy Brands	Birmingham	AL
13	Hubert Palan	Productboard	California City	CA
14	Bob Knott	Velosio	Dublin	OH
15	Didi Gurfinkel	Datarails	New York	NY
16	Eyal Feldman	Stampli	Mountain View	CA
17	Sundar Vaidyanathan	Karsun Solutions	Herndon	VA
18	Kendall Garrison	Amplify Credit Union	Austin	TX
19	Mark Engels	ePayPolicy	Austin	TX
20	Shaival Shah	Ribbon	New York	NY
21	Lindsay Poe	BluPrint Home Loans	Encinitas	CA
22	Mark Schopmeyer & Conway Teng	CaptivateIQ	San Francisco	CA
23	John Swigart	Pie Insurance	Washington	DC
24	Mahbod Nia	Veris Residential	Jersey City	NJ
25	Miles Everson	MBO Partners	Ashburn	VA

Methodology

• Comparably’s 6th annual Best CEOs for Diversity list is based solely on ratings provided by current employees of color (non-Caucasian) who anonymously rated their CEOs on Comparably.com over a 12-month period (May 15, 2022 through May 15, 2023). 
• The answer to each question was given a numerical score and then compared to companies of similar size. There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required. The final data set was compiled from 20 million ratings across 70,000 North American companies.
• To qualify, Large companies (more than 500 employees) must have met a minimum of 75 employee participants and Small/Mid-Size companies (500 employees or less) needed a minimum of 25 employee participants. For fairness and statistical significance, additional weight was given to companies with more participation from their employee base. 
• For Awards FAQ, please go to www.comparably.com/awards

About Comparably

Comparably (now a ZoomInfo company) is a leading workplace culture and corporate brand reputation platform with over 15 million anonymous employee ratings on 70,000 companies. With the most comprehensive data on large and SMB organizations in nearly 20 different workplace categories – based on gender, ethnicity, age, experience, industry, location, education – it is one of the most used SaaS platforms for employer branding and a trusted third party site for workplace culture and compensation. For more information on Comparably’s studies and annual Best Places to Work & Best Brands Awards, visit www.comparably.com/news.