12 other CEOs of the Decade

Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by Editoral Dept in CEO Network

Here are 9 other CEO of the Decade who also ran for the top CEO job.

Larry Page, Sergey Brin (1)

Google’s co-founders have had a tremendous 10-year run, but their impact has been mostly limited to online advertising.

Warren Buffett (2)

After sitting out the dotcom boom (and bust), Buffett reassumed his position as the smartest investor of our time.

Bernie Madoff (3)

Madoff’s too-good-to-be-true investing track record and audacious crime make him the fallen CEO of the decade.

Carlos Slim (4)

The Mexican telecom magnate has ended the decade as one of the world’s wealthiest men. Now he’s backing the New York Times.

Kan Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow (5)

Enron seemed poised to be the star of the decade until it became clear that its leaders were cooking the books.

Bill Gates (6)

He handed off daily duties at Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. His second act might prove just as significant as his first.

Oprah Winfrey (7)

She followed her TV success with O magazineand plans for her own cable channel, Oprah Winfrey Network, or OWN.

Alan Greenspan (8)

After getting credit for stoking the economy, he is now partially blamed for the blowup of the financial system.

Martha Stewart (9)

Like Jobs, she is proof you can go home again, returningto Martha Stewart Omnimedia after a five-month prison stint.

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