Top 100 ceo Workplace culture platform Comparably has released its sixth annual list of the best CEOs of the year. Its list for 2022 is actually split in two: one featuring the top 100 CEOs of large companies (defined as those that have more than 500 employees), and one featuring the top 100 CEOs of small and mid-sized companies (those with fewer than 500 employees).
What’s unique about Comparably’s list of top CEOs of the year is it’s not based on some editorial board’s selection. Instead, it’s chosen based on over 15 million anonymous employee sentiment ratings provided to the site by its users.
Comparably’s 2022 list is especially notable this year because across the top 100 CEOs of large companies, approximately 30% of the CEOs are women or people of color—that’s up from only 5% a year earlier. When you reduce the list to the top 25 CEOs, women helmed four companies (Hubspot, Nextdoor, 23andMe, and AMD) and people of color helmed nine (Hubspot, Workday, Adobe, ADP, Google, Microsoft, IBM, The Knot Worldwide, and AMD).
As for 2022 rankings, the top 10 CEOs of large companies are:
Yamini Rangan, HubSpot
Chano Fernandez, Workday
Carlos Rodriguez, ADP
Vladimir Shmunis, RingCentral
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
Dan Rosensweig, Chegg
Sarah Friar, Nextdoor
Shantanu Narayen, Adobe
Arvind Krishna, IBM
Sundar Pichai, Google
And the top 10 CEOs of small and mid-sized companies are:
Martin Mao, Chronosphere
Clint Sharp, Cribl
Neha Sampat, Contentstack
Ted Jeanloz, connectRN
John Swigart, Pie Insurance
Rich Waldron, tray.io
Tom Sagi, Hourly
Evan Walker, Route
Eyal Feldman, Stampli
Sam Bobley, Ocrolus
You can check out Comparably’s full 2022 lists of the best CEOs here.
