Top 10: CEOs in AI

In a business environment increasingly relying on AI for growth, whether deploying AI agents to streamline workflows or to assist in product development, it is no longer just the role of the Chief Technology Officer to take control. The top seat in the C-suite also needs to take the reins when it comes to spearheading innovation.

CEOs in the tech industry are taking it one step further, creating large-language models, Graphics Processing Units and Generative AI platforms, to stay ahead in the AI race.

From multi-billion dollar investments to co-innovation strategies, these leaders have made their way into Business Chief’s top CEOs in AI and data platforms.

10. Lisa Su

Company: AMD

Revenue: US$25.8bn

Location: Santa Clara, California

Under CEO Lisa Su, AMD is expanding its data centre and AI acceleration business through a strategy focusing on end-to-end technology leadership and an open software ecosystem.

The company is launching new AI acceleration, such as the Instinct MI400 Series, with a roadmap for future performance gains.

Its AI developments aim to target markets beyond hyperscale data centres, including enterprise AI and High Performance Computing. The CEO announced in 2025 that the firm is partnering with OpenAI to deploy Instinct GPUs.

9. Alexandr Wang

Company: Scale AI

Revenue: US$870m

Location: San Francisco, California

Founded by Alexandr Wang, also Chief AI Officer at Meta, Scale AI aims to accelerate AI development by improving data quality and infrastructure.

Combining advanced software and human annotators, Scale AI tags, labels and organises massive datasets, from identifying objects in images to transcribing audio.

Its platform manages the entire AI development lifecycle, enabling enterprises to integrate their data, refine models and build scalable, efficient systems that advance the reliability and performance of AI.

8. Tim Cook

Company: Apple

Revenue: US$416bn

Location: Cupertino, California

Apple Intelligence, the firm’s own on-device generative AI suite, was developed and announced under the leadership of Tim Cook.

Powered by Apple’s Silicon chips, the Neural Engine is a central part of the hardware component that accelerates machine learning to make the on-device AI features fast and energy efficient.

The AI suite includes Apple’s iconic Siri, allowing users to get answers to questions through talking or typing, and Live Translation, allowing communication across languages in real time.

7. Mark Zuckerberg

Company: Meta

Revenue: US$164.5bn

Location: Menlo Park, California

The Founder and CEO of Meta supports open source LLMs like Large Language Model Meta AI (Llama) to foster a broad ecosystem of developers and accelerate innovation.

Llama is designed to understand and generate human-like text and perform various AI tasks like coding, summarising and answering questions, powering Meta apps including Whatsapp and Instagram.

Mark has taken the concept of bringing AI into everyday life one step further by creating Meta glasses, which provide hands-free assistance by understanding visual context.

6. Andy Jassy

Company: Amazon

Revenue: US$639.96bn

Location: Seattle, Washington and Alrington, Virginia

Andy Jassy’s leadership at Amazon reflects a deep, hands-on understanding of AI and its role in shaping modern enterprises. As the former head of Amazon Web Services, he played a key role in building one of the world’s most powerful AI and cloud platforms.

Under his leadership, Amazon continues to invest heavily in generative AI, machine learning and automation, helping businesses innovate at scale.

He has also emphasised the importance of data lakes, enabling organisations to store, manage and analyse vast amounts of data to drive AI innovation.

5. Clay Magouryk

Company: Oracle

Revenue: US$57.4bn

Location: Austin, Texas

As former President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Clay Magouryk now leads OCI’s strategic growth, expanding its global data centre network to compete with major cloud providers in enterprise AI workloads, as part of his Co-CEO role.

Under his leadership, OCI has become a preferred platform for AI training, powering projects for partners such as OpenAI, xAI and NVIDIA.

His vision centres on integrating AI capabilities seamlessly across customer needs while simplifying how organisations manage and scale AI and data together.

4. Sundar Pichai

Company: Google

Revenue: US$350bn

Location: Mountain View, California

Under Sundar Pichai’s leadership, Google has transitioned to an AI-first strategy.

In December 2023, the CEO announced the launch of the first Gemini model, which is described by the firm as an advanced family of multi-modal AI models and the intelligent assistant that powers it.

Google Cloud’s Vertex AI is a fully managed platform that brings all AI-related services under one user interface and API. This helps data scientists and engineers build, deploy and scale AI models and apps.

3. Sam Altman

Company: OpenAI

Revenue: US$13bn

Location: San Francisco, California

Sam Altman founded OpenAI in 2015 and launched the infamous ChatGPT in 2022, signalling the first language model that reached massive worldwide mainstream popularity, beating the likes of Google and Microsoft.

Unlike previous models that were available mainly through complex APIs for developers, Sam’s platform provided a simple, free and intuitive chat interface that anyone could use without coding knowledge.

It now acts as a platform that large-tech firms now use to leverage their own LLMs, including Microsoft, Salesforce and Databricks.

2. Satya Nadella

Company: Microsoft

Revenue: US$293.81bn

Location: Redmond: Washington

The Microsoft CEO has led the continued development of its AI platform Azure AI, which was founded in 2008 by previous CEO Steve Ballmer. The platform leverages LLMs from OpenAI and Satya has been the primary driving force for integrating this AI across user-facing Microsoft products.

This covers various Copilots, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is integrated into Outlook systems, Copilot Studio and Security Copilot, transforming them into proactive assistants.

Alongside this strategic partnership with OpenAI, Satya has made significant infrastructure investment, including announcing in September 2025 that the company is investing US$30bn in UK data centres over the coming years, in order to power Microsoft’s AI and cloud computing ambitions.

1. Jensen Huang

Company: NVIDIA

Revenue: US$130.5bn

Location: Santa Clara, California

As Co-Founder, President and CEO, Jensen is behind the company that founded the GPU in 1999, modernising AI. With Jensen now driving the shift to accelerate computing and large-scale AI platforms, like the recently announced Rubin platform, he is expanding NVIDIA’s open-source models and advanced ship technology for industries, robotics and autonomous systems.

Alongside his own developments, NVIDIA has invested in a wide range of AI startups across large language models (LLMs), robotics and infrastructure.

It made its first direct equity investment in OpenAI in October 2024 as part of a multi-billion dollar round. In late 2025, the firm participated in a major strategic funding round for Anthropic, and invested in Elon Musk-founded xAI.