Talk:List of chief executive officers

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There are spam messages appeearing in the begining and end of the article. They seem to appear again after reverting back to appropriate edits. Wikipedia admisnitrator in charge needs to look into this. Nattu 20:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Article merge suggested

This should be merged with CEOs of major corporations. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Asulca593 (talk • contribs) .

Done. jareha 05:20, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Category

Why isn't this a category? TonyTheTiger 23:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Without the automization that categories provide, how can there be any quality control of this page? Perhaps someone feels that he "owns" the page today, and checks all companies regularly, but that is certainly too boring to work in the long run. Without automization and a good criteria for list inclusion, the quality of the list will be hard to maintain. --HelgeStenstrom (talk) 12:22, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

I am one of a number of users with this page on my watchlist. When I'm active (which admittedly I've not been for some months) I'm able to check any changes which are made, and it is a simple task to check if the subjects (person and company) have their own articles, which seems to have been the criteria for inclusion that has been decided on. As a positive side-effect of this my attention has been drawn on a number of occasions to newly created spam/vanity pages which I can then tag for speedy deletion. I assume the others who watch this page (and have been doing so more recently than I) would report similar experience. Nevertheless, I fully agree that a category would be a better option, and indeed one exists at Category:Chief executive officers, although it seems to be underpopulated at present. AJCham 21:42, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm not a big fan of the "list of" articles; your point is completely valid that they often duplicate the functionality of categories. This one seems to present additional information (matching CEO to the corporate entity) and would likely survive an AFD. Scanning through the list to ensure there is a current article on both sides of the equation is trivial. Ensuring that the ceo of a company has not changed is indeed a pain. Not sure of a solution. Concur with AJ on the spam honeypot - it's why I was originally drawn here. Kuru (talk) 23:52, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

And while there's an active conversation here; any thoughts on converting it to a more comprehensive/sortable list? For example:

Company	Executive	Title	Since	Notes
J.Crew	Millard Drexler	CEO	2003	Former CEO of The Gap, also director at Apple
JP Morgan Chase	James Dimon	CEO and Chairman	2004	also on the board of the New York Federal Reserve
Juniper Networks	Kevin Johnson	CEO	2008	formerly of Microsoft

May be a bit more useful and most of the information can be picked up in the normal scans. Feedback welcome before I sink time into it. Kuru (talk) 00:44, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

You raise a very good point about having an at-a-glance reference matching CEOs with their companies, and I actually must change my above position - I am now happy that the list is worth maintaining. I also like the look of your suggested reformatting and if you want to go ahead with those changes I'll try and help out if I can. AJCham 13:55, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Criteria

I'm not sure who it is that is making these revisions, but CEO's of companies that produce millions of dollars in revenue should be plenty good to make the list. The previous comments maske me feel like these guys are all billionaire who feel only people who make 100 million or more are notable figures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Derenek (talk • contribs) 04:21, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

What are the criteria for the inclusion of these individuals? It seems quite a subjective list; while many are CEOs of Fortune 500 or other large firms, there are a good few rather minor companies' chief execs on this list. Bigdaddy1981 06:04, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Until some suitable objective criteria can be found, I've culled the list to only those entries with their own Wikipedia article. Oli Filth 15:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Whilst it may seem tempting to add back certain entries because they relate to "bigger" companies, etc., given that this list currently has no criteria for entry, it can only lead to listcruft reappearing. Therefore, we must either come up with suitable criteria (e.g. Fortune 500 companies, etc.), or stick with my proposal above, which is to list only those which have their own articles. Oli Filth 18:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Only those with their own Wikipedia pages makes perfect sense, and acts to limit the list to notable organisations and individuals. NZTech (talk) 13:45, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

I would suggest Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies only 90.203.105.9 22:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

What about non-US and non-UK companies? Oli Filth 22:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

So this was a good and relevant discussion that never really went anywhere, and then went stale 15 years ago. As of today, this list is almost completely arbitrary, because the list of CEOs that have Wikipedia entries is arbitrary. Every single CEO of the Fortune 500 is going to be noteworthy enough to have their own articles, so I just don't really see why our criteria is "the list of people who have Wiki articles." Wikipedia is not notoriety in and of itself. I think we need to revisit this discussion. 2601:58B:C601:7AE0:ADED:3586:2065:9BC8 (talk) 00:36, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

The list of CEOs that have Wikipedia entries should not be considered arbitrary, because in order to have a biographical Wikipedia article about a person, that person should qualify under Wikipedia's notability guidelines. To clarify: being the CEO of a very large company is not in of itself sufficient to qualify to have a Wikipedia biographical article. But, once one does qualify, then they could be added to this list. In some instances, people are listed herein that do not yet have Wikipedia articles -- their biographies should be added fairly rapidly after being added to this list, and if they do not qualify, they should be removed from this list. WmLawson (talk) 21:15, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

McKinsey & Company

The current "CEO" of McKinsey & Company is Dominic Barton, who was elected to succeed Ian Davis in 2009 (source). Note that McKinsey is operated like a partnership where its top executive is elected by partners; as a result his title is Managing Director, as oppose to CEO.

I suggest something like:

• "Dominic Barton, Managing Director since 2009"

CorporateM (Talk) 03:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Done. Really need to update the rest of this list... :( Kuru (talk) 13:34, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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Mark Weinberger, CEO of EY

Hi, I am here to ask if editors can add Mark Weinberger to this list. Mr. Weinberger is global chairman and CEO of EY, formerly called Ernst & Young, one of the Big Four professional services networks.

Company	Executive	Title	Since	Education	Notes	Updated
EY	Mark Weinberger	Global chairman and CEO	2013	Emory University, Case Western Reserve University, Georgetown University Law Center	Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy.	2017-05-04

Markup

|-
| [[Ernst & Young|EY]]
| [[Mark Weinberger]]
| Global chairman and CEO
| 2013<ref name="telegraph16">{{cite news |title=The best bosses in the UK 2016, voted for by their employees |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/08/the-best-bosses-in-the-uk-2016-voted-for-by-their-employees/mark-weinberger-ey/ |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=8 June 2016 |accessdate=22 March 2017}}</ref>
| [[Emory University]]<ref name="falchek12">{{cite news |title=Company with 154,000 employees in 144 countries to be headed by Scranton man |last1=Falchek |first1=David |url=http://citizensvoice.com/news/business/company-with-154-000-employees-in-144-countries-to-be-headed-by-scranton-man-1.1258942 |newspaper=[[The Citizens' Voice]] |date=18 January 2012 |accessdate=22 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="emory">{{cite web |url=http://www.emory.edu/home/about/points-pride/famous-alumni.html |title=Famous alumni |publisher=[[Emory University]] |accessdate=22 March 2017}}</ref><br/> [[Case Western Reserve University]]<ref name="falchek12"/><ref name="casewestern">{{cite web |url=http://law.case.edu/Alumni/In-Brief/Articles/ArtMID/1021/ArticleID/45 |title=Global chairman & CEO of EY to speak at commencement |author=Dena Cipriano |date=8 May 2014 |publisher=[[Case Western Reserve University]] |accessdate=22 March 2017}}</ref><br/> [[Georgetown University Law Center]]<ref name="georgetownlaw">{{cite web |url=https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/alumni-in-the-news/index.cfm?start=19&selectedYear=2012 |title=Alumni in the news |publisher=[[Georgetown University Law Center]] |accessdate=22 March 2017}}</ref>
| Former [[Assistant Secretary of the Treasury]] for Tax Policy.

| 2017-08-03

Disclosure: I have a WP:COI as I work in media relations at Mr. Weinberger's company EY. Thank you. RS at EY (talk) 13:03, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

References

Looks fine to me; done. Kuru (talk) 14:16, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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Suggested addition

A major company CEO not currently included is Michael J. Saylor of MicroStrategy. I won't add him myself, as his company is a client of my firm, however I offer the following markup, should another editor agree to his inclusion:

Proposed listing

|-
| [[MicroStrategy]]
| [[Michael J. Saylor]]
| Chairman and CEO<ref name="Henschen18">{{cite news |title=MicroStrategy is back, and it's making the case for agile analytics |last1=Henschen |first1=Doug |url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/microstrategy-is-back-and-its-making-the-case-for-agile-analytics/ |newspaper=[[ZDNet]] |date=26 January 2018 |accessdate=7 February 2018}}</ref>
| 1989
| Founder of the firm

| 2018-02-08

@Kuru: you're by far the most active editor on this page, would you be willing to make this addition? WWB Too (Talk · COI) 21:28, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Looks perfect to me; added. Kuru (talk) 23:32, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Wonderful, thanks! WWB Too (Talk · COI) 14:22, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

New Capgemini CEO: Aiman Ezzat

As of May 2020 Capgemini has a new CEO, Aiman Ezzat, so can this be updated? He currently does not have his own page. (Disclosure: I have a WP:COI as I work in communications at Capgemini.)

Company: Capgemini

Executive: Aiman Ezzat

Title: Group CEO (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/aiman-ezzat-appointed-new-capgemini-ceo/articleshow/75864287.cms)

Since: 2020

Notes: Previously Capgemini COO. Succeeded Paul Hermelin

Many thanks Moejorris (talk) 12:51, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Breach of WP:DIRECTORY ?

Does this article breach the WP:DIRECTORY rule?

86.166.196.65 (talk) 09:53, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I believe it does. And much of it is very out of date. Should it be deleted?

86.166.196.118 (talk) 10:15, 19 March 2021 (UTC)