| Rank
1998 |
Rank
1999 |
Rank
2000 |
Rank
2001 |
Name |
Company |
| 1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Jack Welch |
General
Electric |
| 2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Bill Gates |
Microsoft |
| 8 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
Warren
Buffett |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
| 4 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
Lou Gerstner |
IBM |
| 7 |
8 |
11 |
5 |
Nobuyuki Idei |
Sony |
| 5 |
13 |
7 |
6 |
Andy Grove |
Intel |
| 15 |
7 |
15 |
7 |
Hiroshi Okuda |
Toyota |
| |
5 |
10 |
8 |
Michael Dell |
Dell |
| 10 |
9 |
8 |
9 |
John Browne |
BP Amoco |
| |
21 |
5 |
10 |
Richard
Branson |
Virgin |
| 14 |
14 |
26 |
11 |
Lee Iacocca |
|
| |
20 |
12 |
12 |
Jorma Ollila |
Nokia |
| |
|
18 |
13 |
Steve Case |
AOL Time
Warner |
| |
|
13 |
14 |
Ted Turner |
AOL Time
Warner |
| |
29 |
|
15 |
Michael
Eisner |
Disney |
| |
15 |
|
16 |
Ferdinand
Piech |
Volkswagen |
| |
|
29 |
17 |
Carly Fiorina |
Hewlett-Packard |
| |
|
|
18 |
Gianni
Agnelli |
Fiat |
| |
|
|
19 |
Marco
Tronchetti Provera |
Pirelli |
| |
|
|
20 |
Carlos Ghosn |
Nissan |
| |
26 |
|
21 |
Jean-Marie
Messier |
Vivendi
Universal |
| |
29 |
22 |
22 |
Jeff Bezos |
Amazon.Com |
| |
|
16 |
23 |
Chris Gent |
Vodafone |
| 3 |
4 |
9 |
24 |
Jurgen
Schrempp |
DaimlerChrysler |
| 20 |
21 |
14 |
25 |
Sandy Weill |
Citigroup |
| |
28 |
23 |
26 |
Maurice
Greenberg |
AIG |
| |
|
|
27 |
Heinrich von
Pierer |
Siemens |
| 19 |
24 |
|
28 |
John Reed |
|
| |
12 |
19 |
29 |
Steve Jobs |
Apple |
| |
|
|
30 |
Lindsay
Owen-Jones |
L'Oreal |
|
