Best CEOs for Women 2023

The 6th annual Best CEOs for Women list from Comparably (now a ZoomInfo company) recognizes the CEOs deemed as having the brightest futures according to those who know best – current employees. 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 female employees surveyed on Comparably.com was “Vision/Strategy” – the list of Best CEOs according to women is even more relevant.

Segmented by the Best CEOs of both large and SMB companies, according to female employees, the Top 25 in each size bucket is listed below. This is the first time that three female CEOs top the list: ADP’s Maria Black, Elsevier’s Kumsal Bayazit and Hubspot’s Yamini Rangan. 

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

Best CEOs of Large Companies (according to women)

RANK	CEO NAME	COMPANY	HQ CITY	STATE
1	Maria Black	ADP	Roseland	NJ
2	Kumsal Bayazit	Elsevier	New York	NY
3	Yamini Rangan	HubSpot	Cambridge	MA
4	Aneel Bhusri & Carl Eschenbach	Workday	Pleasanton	CA
5	Arvind Krishna	IBM	Armonk	NY
6	Artie Starrs	Topgolf	Dallas	TX
7	Chris Caldwell	Concentrix	Newark	CA
8	Dara Khosrowshahi	Uber	San Francisco	CA
9	Christoph Schweizer	Boston Consulting Group	Boston	MA
10	Shantanu Narayen	Adobe	San Jose	CA
11	Bryce Maddock	TaskUs	New Braunfels	TX
12	Dan Rosensweig	Chegg	Santa Clara	CA
13	Michael Weening	Calix	San Jose	CA
14	Daniel Julien	Teleperformance	Salt Lake City	UT
15	Bert Bean	Insight Global	Atlanta	GA
16	Pete McCanna	Baylor Scott & White Health	Dallas	TX
17	Dallas Tanner	Invitation Homes	Dallas	TX
18	Eugene Goland	DataArt	New York	NY
19	Martin Migoya	Globant	San Francisco	CA
20	Sumit Singh	Chewy	Plantation	FL
21	Robert G. Painter	Trimble	Westminster	CO
22	Bruce Goodman	Vector Marketing	Olean	NY
23	Venu Raghavan	Encora	Scottsdale	AZ
24	Andrew Wang	Beacon Hill Staffing Group	Boston	MA
25	Fidji Simo	Instacart	San Francisco	CA

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

RANK	CEO NAME	COMPANY	HQ CITY	STATE
1	Martin Mao	Chronosphere	New York	NY
2	Gary Noke	Namely	New York	NY
3	Bob Knott	Velosio	Dublin	OH
4	Donnie Burris	Trinity Logistics	Seaford	DE
5	Shaival Shah	Ribbon	New York	NY
6	Nandan Banerjee	Cogent Infotech Corp	Pittsburgh	PA
7	Wei Deng	Clipboard Health	Walnut	CA
8	John Swigart	Pie Insurance	Washington	DC
9	Simha Sadasiva	Ushur, Inc	Santa Clara	CA
10	Tom Sagi	Hourly	Palo Alto	CA
11	Mahyar Raissi	OpenPhone	San Francisco	CA
12	Lindsay Poe	BluPrint Home Loans	Encinitas	CA
13	Mahbod Nia	Veris Residential	Jersey City	NJ
14	Rishikkes Pawar	Digitalzone	New York	NY
15	Neha Sampat	Contentstack	San Francisco	CA
16	Eyal Feldman	Stampli	Mountain View	CA
17	Ben Madick	Matic	Columbus	OH
18	Didi Gurfinkel	Datarails	New York	NY
19	Sean Barker	cloudEQ	Novi	MI
20	Shane Lamb	CyberCoders	Irvine	CA
21	Mitesh Gala	Altametrics	Costa Mesa	CA
22	Waseem Daher	Pilot	San Francisco	CA
23	Tim Bonacci	Luma Financial Technologies	Cincinnati	OH
24	Amy Taylor	Zevia	Encino	CA
25	Christine Yen	honeycomb.io	San Francisco	CA

Methodology

• Comparably’s 6th annual Best CEOs for Women list is based solely on ratings provided by current female employees 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.