Most of us know our Musks from our Bezos and our Gates from our Jobs. But who are the founders and CEOs behind a lot of the other, most popular tech companies? Who’s the CEO of Dyson? Can you name the 3 founders of Apple? We’ve pulled together a list – both of the company founders, but also the current CEO.
But first, a few notes…
- Many companies are subsidiaries. In this case we’ve listed the parent company in brackets after the name.
- Where a company doesn’t have a CEO we’ve listed an equivalent person with their title in brackets.
- For simplicity we’ve removed company suffixes, such as “Inc.”.
If there any missing that you’d like to see missing, let us know in the comments below.
Company | Founder(s) | CEO |
---|---|---|
Acer | Stan Shih, Carolyn Yeh & George Huang | Jason Chen |
Adobe | John Warnock & Charles Geschke | Shantanu Narayen |
Alibaba | Jack Ma | Daniel Zhang |
Amazon | Jeff Bezos | Jeff Bezos |
Anker | Steven Yang | Steven Yang |
AMD | Jerry Sanders | Lisa Su |
Apple | Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak & Ronald Wayne | Tim Cook |
ARM | Jamie Urquhart, Mike Muller, Tudor Brown, Lee Smith, John Biggs, Harry Oldham, Dave Howard, Pete Harrod, Harry Meekings, Al Thomas, Andy Merritt & David Sea | Simon Segars |
Asus | Ted Hsu, M.T. Liao, Wayne Tsiah, T.H. Tung & Luca D.M | Jonney Shih (Chairman) |
Automattic | Matt Mullenweg | Matt Mullenweg |
Broadcom | (Started as a division of HP) | Tan Hock Eng |
ByteDance | Zhang Yiming & Liang Rubo | Zhang Yiming |
Capgemini | Serge Kampf | Aiman Ezzat |
Cisco | Leonard Bosack & Sandy Lerner | Chuck Robbins |
Dell | Michael Dell | Michael Dell |
Dropbox | Drew Houston & Arash Ferdowsi | Drew Houston |
Dyson | James Dyson | Roland Krueger |
eBay | Pierre Omidyar | Jamie Iannone |
Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz & Chris Hughes | Mark Zuckerberg | |
Foxconn | Terry Gou | Young Liu (Chairman and President) |
Fujitsu | (Started as a division of Fuji) | Masami Yamamoto (Chairman) |
Google (Alphabet) | Larry Page & Sergey Brin | Sundar Pichai |
Hive | (Started as a division of Centrica) | |
Honor | Ren Zhengfei | |
HP | Bill Hewlett & David Packard | Enrique Lores |
Huawei | Ren Zhengfei | Ren Zhengfei |
IBM | Charles Ranlett Flint | Arvind Krishna |
Instagram (Facebook) | Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger | |
Intel | Gordon Moore & Robert Noyce | Pat Gelsinger |
Kaspersky | Eugene Kaspersky, Natalya Kaspersky, Alexey De-Monderik & Vadim Bogdanov | Eugene Kaspersky |
Lenovo | Liu Chuanzhi | Yang Yuanqing |
LG | Koo In-hwoi | Koo Kwang-mo |
Logitech | Daniel Borel, Pierluigi Zappacosta & Giacomo Marini | Bracken Darrell |
McAfee | John McAfee | Peter Leav |
Microsoft | Bill Gates & Paul Allen | Satya Nadella |
Nest (Google) | Tony Fadell & Matt Rogers | |
Netgear | Patrick Lo | Patrick Lo |
Nintendo | Fusajiro Yamauchi | Shuntaro Furukawa (President) |
Nokia | Fredrik Idestam, Leo Mechelin & Eduard Polón | Pekka Lundmark |
Nvidia | Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem & Chris Malachowsky | Jensen Huang |
OnePlus | Carl Pei & Pete Lau | Pete Lau |
Oppo | Tony Chen | Tony Chen |
Oracle | Larry Ellison, Bob Miner & Ed Oates | Safra Catz |
PayPal (eBay) | Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Yu Pan & Elon Musk | |
Philips | Gerard Philips & Anton Philips | Frans van Houten |
Ring (Amazon) | Jamie Siminoff | |
Salesforce | Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff & Frank Dominguez | Marc Benioff |
Samsung | Lee Byung-chul | Lee Jae-yong (President) |
Shopify | Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand & Scott Lake | Tobias Lütke |
Softbank | Masayoshi Son | Masayoshi Son |
Sony | Masaru Ibuka & Akio Morita | Kenichiro Yoshida |
Spotify | Daniel Ek & Martin Lorentzon | Daniel Ek |
Squarespace | Anthony Casalena | Anthony Casalena |
Tencent | Ma Huateng, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Chenye, Chen Yidan & Zeng Liqing | Ma Huateng |
Tesla | Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning | Elon Musk |
Texas Instruments | Cecil H. Green, J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott & Patrick E. Haggerty | Rich Templeton |
TP-Link | Zhao Jianjun & Zhao Jiaxing | Jeffrey Chao (Chairman) |
Tumblr (Automattic) | David Karp | |
Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone & Evan Williams | Jack Dorsey | |
Vodafone | Ernest Harrison & Gerry Whent | Nick Read |
Wix | Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami & Giora Kaplan | Avishai Abrahami |
Qualcomm | Irwin Jacobs & Andrew Viterbi | Cristiano Amon |
WordPress.com (Automattic) | Matt Mullenweg | |
Yahoo (Verizon Media) | Jerry Yang & David Filo | |
YouTube (Google) | Chad Hurley, Steve Chen & Jawed Karim | Susan Wojcicki |
Zoom | Eric Yuan | Eric Yuan |
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