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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