14 DAY TRIAL // New rankings put together by Juniper Research claim that Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella is the most influential executive of a technology company, followed by Apple's Jony Ive and Razer's Min-Liang Tan.
Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer at the helm of Microsoft last year and embarked on a mission that pushed the company into one of the biggest reorganization processes in its history.
At the same time, Nadela turned Microsoft from a company whose focus was mostly on software into a mobile-first, cloud-first world, thus accelerating the transition to a devices and services approach started in Ballmer's era.
Windows as a Service
These are some of the reasons Nadella leads the rankings, with Juniper explaining that the new Windows business model is also a result of the new CEO's vision.
“The rankings, which are based on Juniper’s assessment of key criteria including vision, innovation and personal capital, noted that Nadella’s implementation of ‘Windows-as-a-Service’ represented a fundamental change to Microsoft’s OS-focused business model, resulting in a very different process of development at Redmond in future,” Juniper says in its research.
Here are the full rankings, as provided by Juniper:
Satya Nadella - Microsoft CEO Jony Ive - Apple SVP Design Min-Liang Tan - Razer Co-Founder & CEO Travis Kalanick - Uber CEO Reed Hastings - Netflix Co-Founder & CEO Jack Ma - Alibaba Founder & Chairman Paul Eremenko - Google ATAP Director Jeff Bezos - Amazon Founder & CEO Elon Musk - Tesla Chairman & CEO Lei Jun - Xiaomi CEO
Satya Nadella is the third CEO in Microsoft's history, after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and although he's been in charge of the software giant for only one year, everyone across the world applauds him for his work, especially because he's the pioneer of a more gentleman approach than his predecessor.
Satya Nadella is 47 years old and is born in Hyderabad, India, and prior to becoming the CEO of Microsoft, he had been with the Redmond-based software giant for 22 years.